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You say that you're at a 'facility' now, and since prior to that you referred to tower work specifically, are you now doing approach control or center-type operations? I'm somewhat familiar with civilian ATC (airline pilot), and I'm under the impression that Center & Tower are two almost entirely separate career paths. Is it different in the military and/or am I mistaken?

Also, I've flown in joint use airspace, where the civilian approach controllers were handling the military traffic, too (Little Rock area), and periodically the C-130s would be turned over to, say, "channel 3." I was a bit envious that radio freqs could be so simple (from a user perspective, after punching in 5-6 digit freqs in my radios). Is there consistency in the military for each frequency "channel?" That is, is the UHF frequency behind "channel 3" the same anywhere in the world? The reason I ask is that in the civilian world, common frequencies (usually CTAFs like 122.8) can be ridiculously noisy (especially on weekends), so I can't image military operators being confined to a small set of frequencies, given the likely overlap across the country. Is this an issue?

I was flying in Ohio and ATC (Toledo approach, I think; it's been a while) was practically begging pilots to fly ASRs. I was dying to help out but flying on company time precluded it.

Thanks for the response.

So you can change functions somewhat readily in the military?

Also, is there a military equivalent of a true Center controller, or do the pilots just use the civilian ones (I'm guessing the latter since having both seems redundant).

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