Combat Weather Team
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Combat Weather Team - Airborne
Training
Special operations weathermen conduct the same technical training as all Air Force weathermen. Unlike other special operations forces, special operations weather only recruits from Airmen already within the weather career field.
Special operations weather training includes AFSOC’s Advanced Skills Training conducted at Hurlburt Field, Fla., which produces combat ready special tactics operators through an intensive mentoring training philosophy.
Initial Skills
• U.S. Army Airborne School, Fort Benning, Ga. (3 weeks)
Trainees learn basic parachuting skills required to infiltrate an objective area by static line airdrop.
• U.S. Air Force Basic Survival School, Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash. (2.5 weeks)
This course teaches basic survival techniques for remote areas. This includes instruction of techniques in survival, evasion and escape.
• U.S. Air Force Water Survival School, Pensacola Naval Air Station, Fla. (1 week)
This course teaches basic water survival techniques.
• Initial Skills Training, Hurlburt Field (six weeks)
This unit-level training provides newly assigned weathermen those skills necessary to deploy and operate in permissive and semi-permissive environments. Training includes basic communication, navigation and employment techniques, weapons training and small unit tactics.
Advanced Skills
• Air Force Special Operations Command Advanced Skills Training (six months)
Advanced Skills Training employs a “warrior-training-warrior“ philosophy, teaching the skills necessary for successful service in the special tactics community. Training includes advanced communication, navigation techniques, employment techniques, weapons training and small unit tactics.
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