Police Officer-Combat Arms Training (T32)

What you would do

• Teach classes on the safe use of handguns, rifles, and machine guns.
• Manage the base ground weapons training and maintenance program.
• Inspect weapons and oversee their maintenance across the installation.
• Keep weapons, ammunition, and explosives secure and accounted for.
• Represent the Security Forces Squadron at base and outside meetings.
• When needed, perform full security forces and law enforcement duties on base.

Do you qualify for GS-8?

With experience: You need 1 year of experience at the GS-7 level, meaning work that gave you knowledge of laws and law enforcement and responsibility for order and protecting life and property. This can include police work, military police service, criminal investigations, or similar work. You must describe this experience in your own words.

With education: The announcement lists no education that can qualify you. Experience is the way to qualify.

How to apply well

What to send:

• Resume showing work schedule, hours worked per week, and dates with month and year
• Duties performed listed for each job on your resume
• Completed online Occupational Questionnaire
• SF-50s, transcripts, and DD 214s are recommended but not required

How you will be rated: You will be rated on how well you meet the qualifications. If you are minimally qualified, your resume is compared with your questionnaire answers, and your rating may be adjusted or you may be removed if you rated yourself higher than your application supports.

Tips for this job:

• Your resume must show hours worked per week and month and year dates for each job.
• Describe your experience in your own words; copying the announcement or position description may get you disqualified.
• If you are unsure you can join the National Guard, call the Alabama Air National Guard recruiter at (800) 864-6264 before applying.

Good to know before you apply

Schedule: Full-time. May occasionally be required to work outside normal duty hours, and overtime may be required.

Incentives and relocation: Relocation expenses may be reimbursed under agency policy. A recruitment or relocation incentive of up to 25% may be authorized, but it must be approved before the employee starts.

Conditions of employment:

• National Guard membership required
• Must hold a compatible military assignment in the Alabama Air National Guard before placement
• Must wear the military uniform
• Must be eligible for immediate membership if not a current member
• May be required to complete a probationary period
• Direct deposit is mandatory
• Drug test
• Secret security clearance
• Selective Service registration for men born after 1959
• Indefinite appointment, may be ended with 30 days' notice
• May occasionally work outside normal hours; overtime may be required

Job details

Salary

$58,240 – $75,710 per year

Pay scale and grade

GS-8 · General Schedule

Location

Montgomery, Alabama

Appointment

Permanent

Work schedule

Full-time

Service

Excepted

Openings

1

Security clearance

Secret

Travel

Not required

Drug test

Not required

Supervisory

No

Occupation

Police (0083)

Announcement

AL-13104454-AF-26-337