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7220 Air Traffic Control Officer

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Overview

An Air Traffic Control Officer serves as a watch commander or company commander in an expeditionary air traffic control company. The officer leads garrison facility watches, serves as an officer in charge, and coordinates air traffic control and airspace management activities for Marine, joint, or coalition units.

Minimum clearance: Secret

Core Skills

  • Expeditionary air traffic control watch command
  • Garrison air traffic facility oversight
  • Joint and coalition airspace coordination

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

ATC watch command, facility oversight, and airspace coordination provide directly relevant operational experience for civilian air traffic control.

How to prepare: Assemble existing facility ratings, certifications, and dated records of live traffic separation for assessment against the applicable hiring route. 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 totaling one year; the cited experienced-controller route instead sets a maximum original-appointment age of 35 and requires 52 consecutive weeks of full-time active traffic separation after certification or facility rating within five years of application at a qualifying facility, excluding pre-certification military training time and allowing no educational substitute.

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 selection also requires US citizenship, medical and security screening, clear spoken English, and pre-employment testing including ATSA. Required Academy and facility training precede professional certification; annual medical requalification is required.
  • The cited FAA experienced-controller notice requires US citizenship, a physical examination, drug testing, Secret clearance, willingness to work at any FAA facility, and applicable field training, potentially including Academy courses. Previously appointed FAA or DOD civilian 2152 applicants must document their original appointment before the maximum entry age.
  • The FAA experienced-controller notice is a resume repository, not a guaranteed opening or appointment. FAA appointment age limits do not apply universally to non-FAA controller jobs.
Evidence for this guidance (5 documents)
  1. NAVMC 1200.1L (FY26, in force): MOS 7220

    [1] MOS 7220 section "a. Summary"; cached text line 17493; NAVMC 1200.1L signed 2025-03-07, in force until 2026-10-01

    Supports: Expeditionary air traffic control watch command, Garrison air traffic facility oversight, Joint and coalition airspace coordination, Air Traffic Controllers (O*NET 53-2021.00)

    [2]NAVMC 1200.1L MOS 7220: Related SOC titles · MOS 7220 section "e. Related Standard Occupational Classification"

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

  2. O*NET: Air Traffic Controllers

    [3] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

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

  3. Bureau of Labor Statistics: Air Traffic Controllers

    [4] 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

    [5] 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

    [6] 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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