Air Defense Control Officer
An Air Defense Control Officer works in a tactical air operations center, directing aircraft and surface to air missile assets to intercept hostile aircraft and missiles. This officer identifies and classifies aircraft, assists friendly aircraft with navigation, coordinates enemy targeting information with intelligence resources, directs deep air support missions, and distributes radar resources across Marine air ground task forces and joint services.
2025-10-01 is the MARADMIN recoding date, not the date COOL removed its entry.
- The manual retains the obsolete identifier because it can still appear in active-duty or reserve personnel records.
Source extraction notes
MOS 7210 merged into MOS 7209 (Air Command and Control Officer). The recoding took effect on 2025-10-01. 2025-10-01 is the MARADMIN recoding date, not the date COOL removed its entry. The manual retains the obsolete identifier because it can still appear in active-duty or reserve personnel records.
Source documents (2)
Reviewed October 3, 2026 against references 1 and 2.
- NAVMC 1200.1M MOS 7210 entry with obsolete banner
1. Chapter 1, OccFld 72, MOS 7210; printed pp. 1-258 to 1-259; banner and heading on PDF p. 277 (printed 1-258), continuing PDF p. 278; cached text lines 16597-16650 · cited by the explanation
- MARADMIN 248/25
2. Subj; paras 1, 3, 4 · cited by the explanation