http://aimpoints.hq.af.mil/display.cfm?id=31042

Good info from the Air Force Aimpoint website. Key items pulled from the article are below:

"The Air Force Specialty Codes in 2008 with the most TDY days were bomb disposal officers, who spent an average of 154 days away from home.


Their enlisted counterparts tied with special operations weathermen for the highest av­erage enlisted TDY days — 124 days.

The deployment numbers con­tinue trends that began shortly after Sept. 11, 2001 — strong re­quirements for airmen with spe­cial operations, air mobility and ground combat support skills. Driving the high deployment times are demand from comman­ders in Iraq and Afghanistan, budget-driven decisions not to in­crease the size of some career fields and difficulty training enough airmen for some posi­tions in high demand.

Among enlisted airmen, most of the top deployed AFSC were in roles involving ground opera­tions — battlefield airmen.

The AFSCs in­cluded special oper­ations weathermen (1W0X2), explosive ordnance techni­cians (3E8X1), and tactical air control party members (1C4X1)."

With the recent approval of the SOWT AFSC, the specialty is now getting the recognition previously denied because it was masked inside the 1W0X1 AFSC, which outnumbers 1W0X2 approximately 20 to 1. Hopefully, Air Staff will soon resolve the issues with AETC and the Recruiting Service to start getting some new, young airmen into the specialty.