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a deployed location to support a contingency operation. Once they completed marking all tasks
they felt were important to be performed while deployed, they were presented with only those
tasks and asked to rate each task on a scale of 1-9 on how import each task was to perform by 3-
and 5- skill level personnel upon arrival at the deployed location. The following rating scale was
used for this data collection:
1 Extremely low importance
2 Very low importance
3 Low importance
4 Below average importance
5 Average importance
6 Above average importance
7 High importance
8 Very high importance
9 Extremely high importance
The data collected were then formatted and loaded into the Comprehensive Occupational Data
Analysis Programs (CODAP) and sorted on various groups to enable analysis and display of the
data by various skill level groups. The JI tasks were matched to the current Specialty Training
Standard (STS) for each AFSC to depict the tasks currently coded in the STS as core tasks.
The definition for a core task varies among CFMs, but for the purpose of this analysis, we
wanted to display the feasibility of defining a core task as “a task that is core to the specialty and
performed in a deployed environment.” By employing this definition, tasks can be easily
identified for initial skills training and certified prior to deployment.
Results
The data were presented to the CFMs at the HQ AETC/DO conference and depicted the top tasks
performed by each sample AFSC while deployed. A sample of these data tables are presented on
the following page, sorted by Supervisor’s Importance rating for each. The percent members
performing by 3- and 5-skill-level airmen are also presented for each task.
This information was very well-received by both the functional and training communities to help
identify deployment requirements. AFOMS is now incorporating these deployment survey
techniques into our cyclical analysis process to provide deployment data for every AFSC.
45 th Annual Conference of the International Military Testing Association
Pensacola, Florida, 3-6 November 2003