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qualified resources to support contingency operations or
situations. All SE1 information was derived from AFR 39-1, Airman
Classification and within the WSIS has been matched to appropriate
weapons systems and AFSCs.
The WSIS can retrieve information by calendar year beginning
with a base year of 1987. It allows a user to enter a weapon
system and obtain all the related enlisted AFSCs and SEIs, or vice
versa. Weapon system identification was derived from the 1988 AF
Magazine Almanac with the intention of creating a comprehensive
listing of existing/active USAF Weapon Systems including all
airplanes, helicopters, missiles, etc. The data are arranged by
mission type (i.e. Strategic Bombers, Trainers, Helicopters, etc.)
with the actual weapon systems listed for each mission type.
In the past, statistics on 125 variables were computed each
year against the most current UAR, Airmen Gain/Loss (AGL), and PMS
data files and then uploaded into the system. With the new
Enlisted Statistical Subsystem (ESS), this process has recently
changed for the sake of providing current data as soon as it
becomes available. As was mentioned earlier, the ESS is comprised
of records of all enlisted personnel on the UAR file as of 31 Dee
of each calendar year and all personnel with records on the PMS
file who completed training in that year. Statistical data is
requested by Duty AFSC or PMS Course ID. One and two-way
distributions for selected variables are included in the output.
Where appropriate, means, standard deviations, and row/column
counts are also listed.
The UAR as'of 31 Dee for each year contains all enlisted
personnel to include active duty projected gains, some recent
losses, etc. AFHRL personnel scrub the file so that the resultant
file contains records of all enlisted personnel on "active duty".
Only certain selected fields are used in the ORDB ESS. A total of
44 UAR variables have been selected for the ESS.
The PMS files contain records of all personnel who attended
training at Air Force Technical Schools. For the purpose of the
ESS, only active duty enlisted personnel who have completed
training in the given year are selected. Four variables have been
selected for the ESS to bring the total to 48 variables. The
variables are listed in Table 1. For a two way distribution, one
variable must be marked with an asterisk.
At present, information stored in ORDB is AFSC-specific.
Current modifications to the Weapon System Information Subsystem
(WSIS) and the Enlisted Statistical Subsystem will soon yield
additional information by weapon system. This capability should be
available by the end of CY90. The result will be an improved
occupational research data source containing a wide variety of both
historical and current information on enlisted and officer career
fields of the United States Air Force. There has also been a
recent proposal to place the data base on compact disc, for use on
a write-once-read-many (WORM) drive. A significant increase in the
number of users who could access the system would result.
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