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 ani ...

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 Tertiary education (higher education, or post-secondary education) is the educational level following the completion of secondary education. The World Bank defines tertiary education as including universities, colleges, and vocational schools ...

due to the complexity of the

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

and

mechanical systems A machine is a physical system that uses Power (physics), power to apply forces and control Motion, movement to perform an action. The term is commonly applied to artificial devices, such as those employing engines or motors, but also to natura ...

involved in aircraft design and

maintenance The technical meaning of maintenance involves functional checks, servicing, repairing or replacing of necessary devices, equipment, machinery, building infrastructure and supporting utilities in industrial, business, and residential installa ...

, in ground operations, in control of airspace and in the air.

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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 aeros ...

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

Runway In aviation, a runway is an elongated, rectangular surface designed for the landing and takeoff of an aircraft. Runways may be a human-made surface (often asphalt concrete, asphalt, concrete, or a mixture of both) or a natural surface (sod, ...

design and maintenance :Aviation safety and crash recovery occupations, such as aircraft launch and recovery specialist :

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 air ...

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 airbase (stylised air base in American English), sometimes referred to as a military airbase, military airfield, military airport, air station, naval air station, air force station, or air force base, is an aerodrome or airport used as a mi ...

operations :Air operations command * Military aviation maintenance operations :Fleet operations :Conversion maintenance :Pre-flight, flight, and post-flight maintenance, such as fleet engineer :Fuel operations occupations :Combat operations service :Weapons service * Military aviation flight operations :Flight crew occupations, such as

military pilot An aircraft pilot or aviator is a person who controls the flight of an aircraft by operating its directional flight controls. Some other aircrew members, such as navigators or flight engineers, are also considered aviators because they are ...

and airplane navigator :Weapons crew occupations :Cargo crew occupations, such as aircraft loadmaster :Passenger crew occupations :Specialist crew occupations, such as flight surgeon * 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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