Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Operator

JOB DETAILS:

Having the ability to observe both conventional and unconventional enemies is absolutely necessary to plan for our national defense. Intelligence specialists, like the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Operator, are integral to providing Army personnel with information about enemy forces and potential battle areas. Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Operators are remote pilots of unmanned observation aircraft, who gather and study information that's required to design operational plans and tactics.

Some of your duties as an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Operator may include:

-Prepare and conduct air reconnaissance, surveillance, targeting and acquisition missions
-Deploy and redeploy the UAV ground and air system
-Plan and analyze flight missions
-Perform pre-flight, in flight and post-flight checks and procedures
-Launch and recover air frame from runway
-Perform operator level maintenance on Communications equipment, power sources, light/heavy wheeled vehicles, crane operations

Job training for an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Operator requires nine weeks of Basic Training, where you'll learn basic Soldiering skills, and 23 weeks and three days of Advanced Individual Training and on-the-job instruction, including practice in intelligence gathering. Part of this time is spent in the classroom and part in the field. Some of the skills you'll learn are:

Performing Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Simulation Missions
Preparing maps and charts
Analyzing aerial photographs
Preparing intelligence reports
Using computer systems
 
Helpful skills:
-An interest in remote/radio control vehicles
-An interest in gathering information and studying its meaning
-An ability to organize information
-An ability to think and write clearly
-A strict sense of attention to detail
 
Advanced level Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Operator provides guidance, supervises and trains other Soldiers within the same discipline. As an advanced level Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Operator, you may be involved in:

Direct the emplacement of ground control stations
Direct the emplacement of launch and recovery systems
Assist in artillery fire missions
Support to combat missions/operations