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courses providing the skills they would require as an instructor. Some of these pre-requisite courses, as well as additional courses required over time as additional duties and responsibilities were assigned to an instructor were: • Technical Instructor, 6 weeks 3 days • Measurements, 3 weeks 3 days • Academic Counseling, 3 weeks 3 days • Instructional System Development, 3 weeks 4 days • Technical Writer Resident Material, 4 weeks 4 days Instructors returning to the school for additional tours of duty would be required to complete the Technical Instructor Refresher course of 1 week 1 day duration. Instructors would also have opportunities to attend factory training courses with the addition of new technologies and/or equipment introduced to the Air Force inventory. By the time a PMEL instructor chose to retire from the military, they may well have in excess of 2,000 hours of classroom and OJT training…including that of their initial career field’s training, the pre-requisite PMEL training, OJT Package completion, and that additional special training acquired throughout their career dealing with advanced systems or technologies…for which they
would be responsible for teaching and/or writing course material for the school. As new equipment and/or technologies entered the Air Force inventory, the school staff would create course material to include those new entries. This process typically would result in classroom instructors being temporarily (or permanently) assigned to the “writing section,” to attend factory training on the subject material, and then to produce instructional documentation for classroom instructors and students alike. Click HERE to view a listing of courses offered by the PMEL school over the years prior to closure of Lowry AFB. Click HERE to view the November 1990 “Occupational Survey Report,” for the “Precision Measurement Equipment Laboratory (PMEL) Career Ladder, AFSC 324X0. This report compiled a fairly complete listing of all known jobs performed by Metrologists working in PMEL Labs, which in turn resulted in training being implemented at the PMEL/Metrology School located at Lowry AFB, CO ensuring students would have the necessary skills to work in a USAF PMEL upon graduation.
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courses providing the skills they would require as an instructor. Some of these pre-requisite courses, as well as additional courses required over time as additional duties and responsibilities were assigned to an instructor were: • Technical Instructor, 6 weeks 3 days • Measurements, 3 weeks 3 days • Academic Counseling, 3 weeks 3 days • Instructional System Development, 3 weeks 4 days • Technical Writer Resident Material, 4 weeks 4 days Instructors returning to the school for additional tours of duty would be required to complete the Technical Instructor Refresher course of 1 week 1 day duration. Instructors would also have opportunities to attend factory training courses with the addition of new technologies and/or equipment introduced to the Air Force inventory. By the time a PMEL instructor chose to retire from the military, they may well have in excess of 2,000 hours of classroom and OJT training…including that of their initial career field’s training, the pre-requisite PMEL training, OJT Package completion, and that additional special training acquired throughout their career dealing with advanced systems or technologies…for which they
would be responsible for teaching and/or writing course material for the school.As new equipment and/or technologies entered the Air Force inventory, the school staff would create course material to include those new entries. This process typically would result in classroom instructors being temporarily (or permanently) assigned to the “writing section,” to attend factory training on the subject material, and then to produce instructional documentation for classroom instructors and students alike. Click HERE to view a listing of courses offered by the PMEL school over the years prior to closure of Lowry AFB. Click HERE to view the November 1990 “Occupational Survey Report,” for the “Precision Measurement Equipment Laboratory (PMEL) Career Ladder, AFSC 324X0. This report compiled a fairly complete listing of all known jobs performed by Metrologists working in PMEL Labs, which in turn resulted in training being implemented at the PMEL/Metrology School located at Lowry AFB, CO ensuring students would have the necessary skills to work in a USAF PMEL upon graduation.
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