Career Opportunities in The US Air Force

There is a huge array of career and job opportunities available when you join the United States Air Force.  There is a strong misconception out there that all jobs in the Air Force are related to aviation and planes. That couldn’t be further from the truth!!!  If you have a high school diploma you won’t have any problems finding something that will interest you!

Career opportunities in the USAF can be broken down into the following primary categories:  Enlisted Careers, Officer Careers and Healthcare Careers.  Each of these primary categories has several subcategories as well.  See below for more on each.

Enlisted Careers

• Mechanical Careers - Keep some of the most sophisticated equipment on earth in good working order.
• Administrative Careers - Manage operational aspects of daily life on bases and other locales.
• Electronics Careers - Keep the Air Force in the air and on track with technology that guides, flies, detects and drives.
• General Careers - These are jobs that don’t fall into any of the other categories, such as linguistics, communications, biomedical and so on.

Officer Careers

• Flight Careers - Become a pilot, navigator, air battle manager or choose another job type in the Flight Careers category.
• Technical Careers - Highly skilled managers are responsible for design and operations such as acquisition managers, weather officers, scientists and mechanical engineers.
• Non-Technical Careers - Also ensuring peak efficiency working in intelligence, personnel, security and manpower.
• Specialty Careers - Integral positions such as lawyers, chaplains, combat rescue and more will put your special skills to good use.

Healthcare Careers

• Physicians - Lacking the usual business worries that their civilian counterparts endure, USAF doctors provide top notch healthcare.
• Nursing - With a huge array of benefits, positions and locations, USAF nurses vitally important caregivers.
• Dentistry - Also with fewer headaches than civilian dentists, becoming a USAF dentist offers many benefits and opportunities.
• Biomedical - Many rewarding careers for pharmacists, health physicists, dieticians, speech pathologists, optometrists, podiatrists and more.
• Administration - These detail oriented individuals keep the Air Force medical offices and facilities running smoothly.