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1Z2X1 Combat Control

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Overview

A combat controller establishes air control and provides combat support while attached to special forces teams in remote and often hostile areas. This specialist serves as an FAA-certified air traffic controller and trains in scuba, parachuting, and snowmobiling.

Minimum clearance: Secret

Minimum ASVAB: G 49

ASVAB policy: Not policy-reviewed · coverage unknown · as of 2026-10-19

Program scope has not been reviewed.

Policy applicability and coverage of the program's score routes have not been reviewed. Shown-route arithmetic is not an eligibility decision.

Source: dafecd-atch4-2025-10-31 (source date 2025-10). Policy applicability has not been established.

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Skill levels: 1Z211 helper · 1Z231 apprentice · 1Z251 journeyman · 1Z271 craftsman

Core Skills

  • Airhead control using visual and electronic aids
  • Long-range voice and data command communications
  • Surveillance fusion into a common operating picture
  • Ground, air, and space deconfliction

Civilian Career Paths

Career associations are editorial assessments of the cited evidence, not an official crosswalk unless the evidence explicitly says so. O*NET supplies civilian occupation information, not proof of a military match. Related experience does not confer civilian qualifications. Tasks and tools below describe civilian work, not military training.

Air Traffic Controllers

Terminal air traffic control duties and use of visual and electronic aids to control airheads provide directly relevant experience for civilian air traffic control.

How to prepare: Collect your ATC training records, certifications or facility ratings, facility assignments, and dated live-traffic separation history to assess the appropriate FAA hiring route, distinguishing ATC experience from JTAC qualification alone. The FAA experienced-controller route requires 52 consecutive weeks of full-time active traffic separation after certification or facility rating within five years of application at an FAA facility, a qualifying DoD civilian or military ATC facility or National Guard facility, or an FAA-contract tower under section 47124: verify whether any expeditionary airhead service meets that facility condition; pre-certification military training time does not count, education cannot substitute, and the original-appointment age limit is 35, with applicants age 35 or below by the closing date.

What the civilian work involves
  • Inform pilots about nearby planes or potentially hazardous conditions, such as weather, speed and direction of wind, or visibility problems.
  • Issue landing and take-off authorizations or instructions.
  • Transfer control of departing flights to traffic control centers and accept control of arriving flights.

Notes & Sources

  • FAA entry-level applicants must be under 31 and have one year of progressively responsible work experience, a bachelor's degree, or combined post-secondary education and work experience totaling one year. This route also requires U.S. citizenship, clear spoken English, medical and security screening, and pre-employment testing including ATSA, followed by Academy and facility training.
  • The supplied FAA experienced-controller notice requires U.S. citizenship, a physical examination, drug testing, Secret clearance, and willingness to work at any FAA ATC facility. Previously appointed FAA or DoD civilian 2152 applicants must document their original appointment before the maximum entry age. This notice is a resume repository, not a guaranteed opening; appointees still complete the appropriate certification training.
  • FAA controllers must requalify medically each year. FAA appointment age limits do not govern every non-FAA controller job; assess the specific employer's hiring route and applicable FAA qualification or certification requirements.
Evidence for this guidance (5 documents)
  1. DAFECD, 30 Apr 26: COMBAT CONTROL (1Z2X1)

    [1] Specialty Summary section "COMBAT CONTROL"; normalized cached text lines 5344-5369; explicit AFSC match for 1Z2X1

    Supports: Airhead control using visual and electronic aids, Long-range voice and data command communications, Surveillance fusion into a common operating picture, Ground, air, and space deconfliction, Air Traffic Controllers (O*NET 53-2021.00)

  2. O*NET: Air Traffic Controllers

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Air Traffic Controllers (O*NET 53-2021.00)

  3. Bureau of Labor Statistics: Air Traffic Controllers

    [3] How to Become an Air Traffic Controller; retrieved 23 September 2026

    Supports: Air Traffic Controllers (O*NET 53-2021.00)

  4. FAA: Air Traffic Controller Qualifications

    [4] Minimum qualifications and training requirements; official page updated 2025-02-27, checked 2026-09-24. Current entry-level threshold is one year, not the older three-year wording.

    Supports: Air Traffic Controllers (O*NET 53-2021.00)

  5. FAA 2026 experienced Air Traffic Control Specialist direct-hire notice

    [5] FAA-FAA-26-PUB NOT-96466: Duties, Conditions of employment, Qualifications, Education. Checked 2026-09-24; a resume repository, not a guarantee of an opening or appointment.

    Supports: Air Traffic Controllers (O*NET 53-2021.00)

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Predecessor codes

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1C2X1Combat Control

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