A professional who operates airborne sensing equipment to locate and identify friendly and enemy aircraft. Respnsibilities include:

• Places and secures sensing and monitoring equipment, such as IFF, infrared, and radar, in aircraft.
• Pushes buttons, presses switches and turns knobs to start, control, and stop equipment.
• Observes equipment scopes and indicators to obtain data to determine location and identity of aircraft.
• Contacts Command Post personnel, using radio, to report presence of enemy aircraft.
• Examines equipment to detect malfunctions.
• Replaces malfunctioning components, including tubes and circuit boards, to repair equipment, using handtools.