Army MOS · Combat & Infantry

14P Air and Missile Defense (AMD) Crewmember

Current service use not established

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Overview

An Air and Missile Defense Crewmember operates or serves as a member of an air defense weapons system. The crewmember works with lightweight, highly mobile systems and may supervise their operation.

Minimum clearance: Secret

Minimum ASVAB: OF 87

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: smartbook-611-21-ch10c-fy2025 (source date 2025-12). Policy applicability has not been established.

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Core Skills

  • Infrared target detection and engagement evaluation
  • Radio and wire communications setup
  • Air and ground early-warning tracking and reporting
  • Defensive position reconnaissance, selection, and occupation

Civilian Career Paths

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Public Safety Telecommunicators

Maintaining radio communications, transmitting alert-status changes, and disseminating early warnings transfer to relaying time-sensitive information to emergency response units.

How to prepare: Take a dispatcher call-taking course with exercises in caller-location verification, response prioritization, and concise radio message relay.

What the civilian work involves
  • Relay information and messages to and from emergency sites, to law enforcement agencies, and to all other individuals or groups requiring notification.

Light Truck Drivers

Operating and maintaining weapon-system carriers provides relevant vehicle-operation and preventive-maintenance experience for light-truck driving.

How to prepare: Practice a supervised delivery route that includes a vehicle inspection and checking the load against shipping papers.

What the civilian work involves
  • Inspect and maintain vehicle supplies and equipment, such as gas, oil, water, tires, lights, or brakes, to ensure that vehicles are in proper working condition.
  • Report any mechanical problems encountered with vehicles.

Notes & Sources

  • Early-warning coordination, supervisory duties, and platoon position reconnaissance occur at progressive skill levels in the MOS specification; use only duties actually performed when documenting experience.
Evidence for this guidance (3 documents)
  1. DA PAM 611-21 Smartbook FY2025 ch 10C §10-14P MOS 14P

    [1] §10-14P MOS 14P Air and Missile Defense (AMD) Crewmember (Effective 202510), lines 2386-2441 (newline text of cached PDF; posted 2025-12-04, retrieved 2026-08-03)

    Supports: Infrared target detection and engagement evaluation, Radio and wire communications setup, Air and ground early-warning tracking and reporting, Defensive position reconnaissance, selection, and occupation, Public Safety Telecommunicators (O*NET 43-5031.00), Light Truck Drivers (O*NET 53-3033.00)

  2. O*NET: Public Safety Telecommunicators

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Public Safety Telecommunicators (O*NET 43-5031.00)

  3. O*NET: Light Truck Drivers

    [3] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Light Truck Drivers (O*NET 53-3033.00)

Defense contractor jobs for 14P

Predecessor codes

Historical codes with documented links to 14P. Each history page explains the change.

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