Air Force makes career recruiter an official job

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Air Force makes career recruiter an official job
By Lisa Burgess, Stars and Stripes
Mideast edition, Thursday, November 8, 2007

ARLINGTON, Va. — A search for experienced recruiting supervisors and trainers has led the Air Force to declare “career recruiter” as an official service job.

The career recruiter Air Force Specialty Code, or AFSC, will number about 400 airmen, according to Chief Master Sgt. John Osborne, superintendent of the plans and resources division at Recruiting Service Headquarters on Randolph Air Force Base, Texas.

It won’t be an entry-level job: Applicants must be master sergeants or master sergeant-selects with at least two years experience as recruiters, or technical sergeants with a minimum of five years, Osborne said.

The new career field lets the Air Force “keep experienced folks to teach the other recruiters,” said Chief Master Sgt. Michael Gasparetto, the Air Force’s chief of enlisted accession policy.

That’s important, he said, because about one-third of the Air Force’s force of approximately 1,400 recruiters turns over each year.

The Marines and Navy already have permanent career fields for recruiters. The concept of creating a small cadre of permanent recruiters for the Air Force “is something that’s been kicking around for four or five years,” said Maj. Sean McKenna, recruiting service spokesman.


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