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Show July 15, 1993 Hilltop Times 9 Work progresses on specialty code system send members their new designation by computer printout after Nov. 1, officials said. The new classification structure will skills that have become fragmented throughout the years. For example, some logistics skills today have RANDOLPH AFB, Texas (AFNS) Progress AFSCs in the 3, 4, 5 and 6XXXX families. continues as the Air Force gears up for its new Most Air Force members will have AFSCs begincode classification which starts specialty system ning with a 1, 2, 3 or 4, and officers and enlisted Oct. 31. members in the same career fields will have similar The new system will align the classification sys- AFSCs. tem with the restructured Air Force, provide memThere will be nine different career groups: 1 for bers better career path visibility and reduce the operations, 2 for logistics, 3 for support, 4 for medinumber of Air Force specialty codes. cal, 5 for professional (judge advocates and Currently there are 216 officer and 203 enlisted chaplains), 6 for acquisition and financial manageAFSCs, but those figures will drop to 120 and 180, ment, 7 for Office of Special Investigations, 8 for respectively, said personnel officials here. special duty, and 9 will be used as a reporting idenFewer AFSCs will result in fewer specialists, tifier. which means people can become skilled in a wider Officer AFSCs will still have four characters; envariety of duties and be more widely assigned listed members will still have five. Each character or letter will identify a career grouping, career field, throughout the Air Force, officials said. Orderly rooms and military personnel flights will functional area within a career field, qualification or New classification structure will reduce number of specialty codes for officers, enlisted members. re-gro- - skill level. The fifth character in enlisted specialties will identify a specific expertise within a functional area. For example, the following identifies an enlisted airborne radar systems craftsman with the 1A573 AFSC: 1 (identifies the career group as operations) A (identifies the career field as aircrew operations) 5 (defines the career field subdivision as air- borne systems) 7 (identifies the skill level as airborne systems craftsman) 3 (identifies the specific AFSC or expertise as airborne radar systems craftsman) Using the same definitions, the following identifies a 51J4 judge advocate: 5 (professional career group) 1 (legal career field) J (judge advocate subdivision) 4 (qualification staff level) Overseas reductions hit Netherlands, Germany - Bitburg will be partially returned to the German government in 1995, according to the announcement. About 700 base personnel, most of them military, will be reassigned to Spangdahunlem. Eighteen of Bitburg's 48 head overseas, and the locations we have derline the fact that truly and D model aircraft including the War era," 12 currently at Aviano AB, Italy, supentered a new, post-Col- d porting Deny Flight operations also Aspin said. Most of the units affected are Army, will be transferred to Spangdahlem. including those assigned to the Fulda The remainder will go to other Air Gap in Germany where American Force units. The Air Force will retain family forces have served for more than 40 years. Fulda Gap was the traditional housing, the hospital and some other invasion route into south Germany. support faculties at Bitburg. Besides Bitburg, the only other Air Soesterberg will end operations in affected in Force site Germany by this September 1994 and the base will be round of closures is the Trier Family returned to the Dutch government. Housing Annex which supports Some 1,446 military and 70 U.S. civilian personnel will be assigned to Spangdahlem AB, Germany. WASHINGTON (AFNS) Operations will end at Soesterberg AB, g Netherlands, and be reduced at of the as AB, Germany, part latest round of overseas reductions. Defense Secretary Les Aspin announced June 29 that 92 overseas U.S. military sites will be closed or scaled back in operation. He said the United States has reduced its overseas military sites by 50 percent since January Bit-bur- 1990. The latest effort, the largest in the last three years, shows "we are vigorously cutting unnecessary over C other Air Force units. The base's 18 and B model aircraft will be returned to the United States and assigned to the Air National Guard. The Air Force will also end operations at the family housing annex in London, England, which supports High Wycombe AS. Air Force announced in May that it was transferring High Wycombe to U.S. Naval Forces in Europe. 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