Careers

Career Description

Rescue plans. Deployment plans. Sustainment plans. Support plans. Everything the Air Force does requires a plan, and those making the plans are Logistics Plans specialists. You'll organize deployments as well as recovery and support procedures. A career in logistics means you'll identify shortfalls and develop crisis action procedures in conjunction with other employed organizations. In short, you'll be the one outlining how the Air Force accomplishes the impossible.

Career Tasks

• Plan operations deployments, sustainment, recovery and support procedures
• Provide planning support for associated units and perform base support planning processes
• Prepare and direct compiling, coordinating, publishing, distributing, maintaining and implementing base support plans
• Identify shortfalls, disconnects and alternate support methods to enhance supportability of throughput and bed-down forces
• Establish and operate a control center and monitor deploying personnel and equipment products
• Review planning documents to determine deployment tasking
• Develop crisis action procedures in conjunction with other employed organizations
• Maintain a close relationship between operations, logistics and support organizations to enhance support of the combat mission

Relevant Interests & Skills

• Business Operations
• Art and Education
• Logistics and Transportation

Training

After eight-and-a-half weeks of Basic Military Training, every Airman goes to technical training to learn their career. Here's the basic information about Logistics Plans technical training:

School location: Lackland AFB [TX]

Length of course: 27 days

College degree earned: Logistics

College credits earned: 14