{{Unreferenced, date=September 2008 Military aviation occupations are types of

work Work may refer to: * Work (human activity), intentional activity people perform to support themselves, others, or the community ** Manual labour, physical work done by humans ** House work, housework, or homemaking ** Working animal, an animal tr ...

either shared with commercial aviation or unique to military aviation, that provide skills for the operation of an air forces business. Often military aviation employees will have had

higher education Higher education is tertiary education leading to award of an academic degree. Higher education, also called post-secondary education, third-level or tertiary education, is an optional final stage of formal learning that occurs after completi ...

due to the complexity of the

electrical Electricity is the set of physical phenomena associated with the presence and motion of matter that has a property of electric charge. Electricity is related to magnetism, both being part of the phenomenon of electromagnetism, as described by ...

and

mechanical systems A machine is a physical system using power to apply forces and control movement to perform an action. The term is commonly applied to artificial devices, such as those employing engines or motors, but also to natural biological macromolecules ...

involved in aircraft design and

maintenance Maintenance may refer to: Biological science * Maintenance of an organism * Maintenance respiration Non-technical maintenance * Alimony, also called ''maintenance'' in British English * Champerty and maintenance, two related legal doctrine ...

, in ground operations, in control of airspace and in the air. Military aviation occupations can be subdivided as follows: * Military aviation engineering design :

Airframe The mechanical structure of an aircraft is known as the airframe. This structure is typically considered to include the fuselage, undercarriage, empennage and wings, and excludes the propulsion system. Airframe design is a field of aerospa ...

engineers :Fuel systems engineers :Instrumentation and electronics engineers :Weapon systems engineers * Military aviation operations control (ground) :

Runway According to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), a runway is a "defined rectangular area on a land aerodrome prepared for the landing and takeoff of aircraft". Runways may be a man-made surface (often asphalt concrete, as ...

design and maintenance :Aviation safety and crash recovery occupations :

Air traffic control Air traffic control (ATC) is a service provided by ground-based air traffic controllers who direct aircraft on the ground and through a given section of controlled airspace, and can provide advisory services to aircraft in non-controlled airs ...

Hangar A hangar is a building or structure designed to hold aircraft or spacecraft. Hangars are built of metal, wood, or concrete. The word ''hangar'' comes from Middle French ''hanghart'' ("enclosure near a house"), of Germanic origin, from Frankish ...

operations :

Air base An air base (sometimes referred to as a military air base, military airfield, military airport, air station, naval air station, air force station, or air force base) is an aerodrome used as a military base by a military force for the operation ...

operations :Air operations command * Military aviation maintenance operations :Fleet operations :Conversion maintenance :Pre-flight maintenance :Fuel operations occupations :Combat operations service :Weapons service * Military aviation flight operations :Flight crew occupations :Weapons crew occupations :Cargo crew occupations :Passenger crew occupations :Specialist crew occupations * Military aviation flight command :Air command occupations :Air control occupations :Air communications occupations :Air search occupations :Air target acquisition occupations :Air search and rescue occupations

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