scope:

Purpose of the CFETP.

This CFETP provides information necessary for Air Force Career Field Manager (AFCFM), MAJCOM functional managers (MFMs), commanders, training managers, supervisors, and trainers to plan, develop, manage, and conduct an effective career field training program. This plan outlines the training that individuals in AFSC 2A6X4 should receive to develop and progress throughout their career. This plan identifies initial skills, upgrade, qualification, advanced, and proficiency training. Initial skills training is the AFS- specific training an individual receives upon entry into the Air Force or upon retraining into this specialty for award of the 3-skill level. This training is conducted by AETC at the 361st Training Squadron, Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas. Upgrade training identifies the mandatory courses, task qualification requirements, and correspondence course completion requirements for award of the 5-, 7-, 9-skill levels. Qualification training is actual hands-on task performance training designed to qualify an Airman in a specific duty position. This training program occurs both during and after the upgrade training process. It is designed to provide the performance skills/knowledge required to do the job. Advanced training is formal training that provides individuals who are qualified in one or more positions of their AFS with additional skills/knowledge to enhance their expertise in the career field. The CFETP has several purposes, some of which are:

Serves as a management tool to plan, manage, conduct, and evaluate a career field training program. Also, it is used to help supervisors identify training at the appropriate point in an individual's career.

Identifies task and knowledge training requirements for each skill level in the specialty and recommends education/training throughout each phase of an individual's career.

Lists training courses available in the specialty, identifies sources of training, and identifies the training deliverymethod.

Identifies major resource constraints that impact full implementation of the desired career field training process.