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One of six related documents, this publication contains a U.S. Air Force course designed to help students improve their reading skills. The chapters contain lessons on reading habits and how they affect the reader, exercises to identify one's reading speed, an improvement program, exercises to improve eye movement and to reduce eye fixations, lessons for improving vocabulary, lessons for reading with a purpose, and exercises testing the previously covered information. An answer key to course tests and a suggested reading program format are included. (EL)

One of six related documents, making up a U.S. Air Force correspondence course, this publication deals with effective writing and emphasizes the sentence as the basic unit of written communication. Part one focuses on internal sentence punctuation and covers the use of the comma, semicolon, colon, period, capital, abbreviations, and numbers. Part two emphasizes the basic sentence and its contribution to the communication process, and covers the parts of speech, sentence form and content, transitional devices between and within sentences, and the planning, organizing, and developing of a paragraph. A self-help test on effective writing and the answer key are included. (EL)

One of six related documents, this publication contains a U.S. Air Force course on communication skills. The course presented is one of three in a program based on the following educational goals for each student: (1) comprehend the principles of effective communication; (2) know some of the factors that enter into international relations, elements of national policy, and the employment of military force in achieving objectives over a broad range of circumstances; and (3) comprehend the concepts and techniques suitable for the effective management of material and human resources. This volume contains lessons on reading effectiveness, effective communication, listening effectively, the writing process, readable writing, and tips on speaking. Lessons present objectives and exercises, as well as content. (EL)

One of six related documents, this study guide is intended to accompany extension course textbooks produced by the Air Force Extension Course Institute. It contains suggestions and instructions about studying to save students time and to help them get more from the course. Information is included about how to study, the course materials, the course examination, time limits, enrollment credit, enrollment cancellation, reserve point credit, sources of assistance, records, taking tests, and the course evaluation. The guide includes forms for a weekly study schedule, a progress record, and a student request for assistance. (EL)

This volume of student materials for a secondary/post-secondary level course in food service/baking comprises one of a number of military-developed curriculum packages selected for adaptation to vocational instruction and curriculum development in a civilian setting. The purpose stated for the individualized, self-paced course is to assist the apprentice (semi-skilled) baker in his/her duties as assistant to the baker. The course is recommended for use in providing supplemental study for students in baking or food services programs. Four chapters cover these topics: safety (accident and fire prevention, shop and electrical safety), sanitation and personal hygiene (food service standards, communicable diseases, disease control measures, cleaning agents, insect and rodent control, sanitizing supplies, storage of cleaning supplies), baking fundamentals and production of pastry (baking terms, function of baking ingredients, cakes, cookies, pie dough and filling, yeast dough), and Air Force Supply discipline (procedures for inspecting food supplies and storing foods). Each chapter is organized around criterion learning objectives that are accompanied by reading assignments and criterion test items with answers. A course examination is provided, but no answers are available. (YLB)

This correspondence course is designed for self-study to help military personnel to attain the rating of weather specialist. The course is organized in three volumes. The first volume, containing seven chapters, covers background knowledge, meteorology, and climatology. In the second volume, which also contains seven chapters, surface observations, radar, and satellite use are presented. The final volume, in five chapters, covers weather codes, communications, analysis, and forecasting. The volumes contain learning objectives, information and analysis, and exercises. Supplementary materials include foldout charts and review exercises for each volume. Learning materials are illustrated. A change supplement for all three volumes also is included in this packet. (KC)

This three-volume student text is designed for use by Air Force personnel enrolled in a self-study extension course for aircraft electrical systems specialists. Covered in the individual volumes are career field fundamentals, electrical systems and test equipment, and aircraft control and warning systems. Each volume in the set contains a series of lessons, exercises at the end of each lesson, a bibliography, and answers to the exercises. A change supplement to the third volume, containing page revisions and pen and ink changes, is also provided. (MN)

This four-volume student learning package is designed for use by Air Force personnel enrolled in a self-study extension course for apprentice machinists. The package consists of four volumes of instructional text and four workbooks. Covered in the individual volumes are machine shop fundamentals, lathe work, shaper and contour machine work, and milling and grinding machine work. Each volume in the set contains a series of lessons and a bibliography. Each workbook includes a study reference guide, chapter review exercises and their answers, and a volume review exercise. A change supplement, containing revised pages for volume 1 and pen and ink changes for volumes 1-4, is also provided. (MN)

This four-volume student text is designed for use by Air Force personnel enrolled in a self-study extension course for machinists. Covered in the individual volumes are machine shop fundamentals, metallurgy and advanced machine work, advanced machine work, and tool design and shop management. Each volume in the set contains a series of lessons, exercises at the end of each lesson, a bibliography, and answers to the exercises. Supplementary volume review exercises are also provided. A fifth volume, a change supplement, is also provided. (MN)

This course, adapted from military curriculum materials for use in vocational and technical education, was designed to upgrade an apprentice weather observer to the weather observer specialist level. Intended to be used in a laboratory or on-the-job learning situation, it contains both basic information needed for review and supervisory information. The course is divided into four volumes with accompanying student workbooks. Volume 1 on unit operations, equipment, and special topics contains two chapters covering meteorology, mathematics, and weather station equipment; while the second volume on surface weather observations and station operations contains two chapters covering observations as well as encoding and disseminating surface observations, with practice charts attached. In the third volume on weather plotting and communications, three chapters cover plotting weather charts, weather communications, as well as editing and electronic data processing. A supplemental volume of charts accompanies the volume. The final volume on upper air observations and tactical stations contains three chapters discussing pilot balloon observations, Rawinsonde Observations, and Rocketsonde and Dropsonde Observations. Each chapter contains objectives. readings, exercises, and answers for student self-study and evaluation. Volume review exercises (without answers) are available. Used in a self-study situation, the course is planned to give some background and advanced information on specific procedures used in meteorology and weather observation. (KC)

This two-volume student text is designed for use by Air Force personnel enrolled in a self-study extension course for apprentice food service specialists. Covered in the first volume are fundamentals of food preparation and service (careers in food service, food service sanitation, principles of food preparation and service, and baking fundamentals and production of pastry). The second volume deals with the fundamentals of food service equipment and management and special feeding situations. Each volume in the set contains a series of lessons, exercises at the end of each lesson, a bibliography, and answers to the exercises. Volume review exercises are also included. (MN)

This four-volume student text is designed for use by Air Force personnel enrolled in a self-study extension course for apprentice still photographic specialists. Covered in the individual volumes are general subjects (career ladder progression, security, photographic safety, and photographic laboratory administration); still photographic fundamentals (existing and supplemental light sources, photographic exposure, sensitized black-and-white materials, photographic optics, and photographic filters); photographic camera assignments (principles of photographic composition, general and studio assignments, and reproduction photography); and photographic laboratory applications (black-and-white chemistry, film processing and finishing, printing, and finishing; principles of color photography; and quality control). Each volume in the set contains a series of lessons, exercises at the end of each lesson, a bibliography, and answers to the exercises. Volume review exercises are also included. (MN)

This course is intended to train Air Force personnel to become electronic computer and switching systems specialists. One part of the course consists of a three-volume career development course. Topics are maintenance orientation (15 hours), electronic principles and digital techniques (87 hours), and systems maintenance (51 hours). Each volume provides both theoretical and factual information, exercises, and answers for exercises. Volume review exercises accompany each volume. The course also contains nine modules on these topics: introduction to digital techniques and numbering systems (12 hours); clock/pulse generators (12 hours); combination logic and converters (12 hours); computers, peripherals, and storage media (21 hours); semiconductors and semiconductor devices (3 hours); digital logic and Boolean algebra (12 hours); sequential logic (9 hours); corrosion control (6 hours); and basic techniques of waveform measurement using an oscilloscope (9 hours). Module components are student-centered objectives, informative material on those objectives, exercises, and answers for exercises. (YLB)

This seven-volume student text is designed for use by Air Force personnel enrolled in a self-study extension course for metal fabricating specialists. Covered in the individual volumes are general subjects (career progression, management of activities and resources, shop mathematics, and characteristics of metals); sheet metal tools and equipment (cutting tools and equipment; drilling, punching, and fastening; folding, forming, and seaming equipment and spot welding, lead soldering, and sealing); installed equipment and doors (fixed utility equipment, awnings and canopies, metal roof parts, and doors and gates); layout and duct systems (drawings and layout, seams and joint connections, characteristics and control of airflow, duct systems, and stacks and ventilators); oxyacetylene welding (equipment, welding and brazing castings, oxyacetylene cutting, forging, and carbon steel and heat- and corrosion-resistant ferrous alloys); electric welding and metallic arc equipment (preparation; metallic arc welding and applications; and gas-shielded, tungsten-inert-gas, and pipe welding); and general contingency responsibilities (first aid, field hygiene and sanitation, work party security, and convoy techniques). Each volume in the set contains a series of lessons, exercises at the end of each lesson, a bibliography, and answers to the exercises. Volume review exercises and a change supplement for the package are also included. (MN)

This four-volume student text is designed for use by Air Force personnel enrolled in a self-study extension course for medical laboratory technicians. Covered in the individual volumes are medical laboratory administration and clinical chemistry (career opportunities, general laboratory safety and materials, general medical laboratory administration, basic chemistry, solutions, photometry and spectrophotometry, automation, quality control in collection and handling of specimens); laboratory procedures in clinical chemistry (body metabolism; proteins, carbohydrates, and enzymes; liver and kidney function tests; gastric analysis; special chemistry tests; toxicology) and laboratory procedures in urinalysis (general considerations, renal functions, physical characteristics of urine, microscopic examination, and chemical examination). Each volume in the set contains a series of lessons, exercises at the end of each lesson, a bibliography, and answers to the exercises. Volume review exercises are also included. (MN)

This eight-volume student text is designed for use by Air Force personnel enrolled in a self-study extension course for pest management specialists. Covered in the individual volumes are civil engineering; pest management (entomology, pest management planning and coordination, and safety and protective equipment); pest management chemicals and equipment (pesticides in the environment, pesticide characteristics and classification, and pesticide dispersal equipment); disease vectors (mosquitoes, flies, fleas, lice, ticks, and mites); vertebrate pests (rodents, birds, and others); economic pests (pests of stored products, structural pests, and ornamental and turf pests); household, venomous, and vegetative pests; and general contingency responsibilities (first aid techniques, field hygiene and sanitation, work party security, convoy techniques, expedient field water treatment, and vehicle operation). Each volume in the set contains a series of lessons, exercises at the end of each lesson, a bibliography, and answers to the exercises. Volume review exercises and a change supplement for the package are also included. (MN)

This document contains the six volumes of an Air Force correspondence course in television equipment repair. Each volume consists of student learning objectives, information, exercises, answers to exercises, and in some volumes, review modules on related topics. A volume review exercise is included for each volume. The first volume provides general information on on-the-job training, security, television equipment safety, Air Force publications, supervision, and maintenance management. The second volume contains a review and discussion of electrical and advanced electronic principles applicable to television repair. The third volume is a refresher course in maintaining television systems. It covers electronic test equipment and general shop practices. The fourth volume covers the principles and maintenance of television systems, while the fifth volume covers the principles and maintenance of videotape recorders, television transmission, and receiver/monitors. The final volume covers the principles of systems maintenance . A glossary of terms and foldout diagrams are included. (KC)

This course of study is designed to lead the student to full qualification as an Air Force imagery production specialist. The complete course consists of six volumes: general subjects in imagery production (39 hours), photographic fundamentals (57 hours), continuous imagery production (54 hours), chemical analysis and process control (volumes A and B: 39 and 27 hours), sensitometric control for black-and-white and color processes (39 hours), and statistical quality control methods (36 hours). Each volume provides both theoretical and factual information, exercises, and answers to exercises. Other contents may include a bibliography and appended materials. A volume review exercise (multiple-choice questions) accompanies each of the six volumes. (YLB)

This document contains the four volumes of an Air Force correspondence course in telephone equipment installation and repair. Each volume consists of student learning objectives, information, exercises, and answers to exercises; a volume review exercise is included for each volume. The first volume includes information about career field duties and responsibilities, introduction to management and supervision, security, fundamentals of electricity, basic electronic circuits, and telephone fundamentals. The second volume continues with the common-battery telephone system features. It reviews the basic principles of central office switching, the station equipment, maintenance and inspection, records, wire maintenance safety, and technical orders. The third volume reviews telephone installation principles including telephone station planning, installation work practices, terminal to telephone wiring, station termination and testing, and prevention maintenance and station trouble isolation. The final volume describes the varied uses of telephone communication systems and operating principles of exemplary equipment. At the end of this volume is a glossary; also included are seven schematic foldouts that are printed separately as three supplements. (KC)

This student text is designed for use by Air Force personnel enrolled in a self-study extension course for meat cutters. Covered in the individual chapters are careers in meat processing, operation and maintenance of meat cutting equipment, receipt and storage, procedures for processing and preparing meats, techniques for wrapping and pricing retail meat cuts, guidelines for grading and cooking meats, and meat department management. Each chapter contains a series of lessons and exercises at the end of each lesson. Answers to the exercises and a volume review exercise are provided. (MN)

This three-volume set of student texts is intended for use in an extension course to prepare Air Force graphics specialists. The first volume deals with basic equipment, materials, lettering, and drafting (including geometric and graphic construction). Addressed in the second volume are composition and layout techniques and the fundamentals of drawing the human form, cartoons and caricatures, and landscapes and seascapes. The third volume, which deals with visual communications, covers projectual design, printed materials, and special techniques. Each volume includes instructional text, exercises, answers to the exercises, and a bibliography. Volume review exercises and a change supplement for the package are also included. (MN)

This four-volume student text is designed for use by Air Force personnel enrolled in a self-study extension course for medical laboratory technicians. Covered in the individual volumes are laboratory procedures in clinical bacteriology (the history of bacteriology; aseptic techniques and sterilization procedures; bacterial morphology and physiology; innoculation of media for isolation of bacteria; antimicrobial agents, drug resistance, and susceptibility testing; gram-positive organisms, gram-negative cocci, coccoid forms, and bacilli; enteric organisms, mycobacterium and spirochetes); clinical parasitology (medical parasitology and protozoa, platyhelminthes, and nematodes infecting man); and laboratory procedures in clinical mycology (medical mycology, yeastlike fungi and monomorphic molds, pathogenic dimorphic fungi, saprophytic fungi, and laboratory diagnosis of viral rickettsial and chlamydial diseases. Each volume in the set contains a series of lessons, exercises at the end of each lesson, a bibliography, and answers to the exercises. Supplementary volume review exercises, a foldout, and a change supplement are also provided. (MN)

This four-volume student text is designed for use by Air Force personnel enrolled in a self-study extension course for dental assistant specialists. Covered in the individual volumes are an introduction to dental services (the mission and organization of medical/dental service, career ladder progressions, medical readiness/wartime training, and Air Force occupational safety and health); basic sciences (dental anatomy, physiology, and histology; oral pathology; dental materials; and dental therapeutics); administrative functions and chairside assisting (dental administration, publications and dental supply, dental instruments, housekeeping and equipment maintenance, professional standards and general assisting procedures, and specialty assisting procedures); and dental radiology and preventive dentistry). Each volume in the set contains a series of lessons, exercises at the end of each lesson, a bibliography, and answers to the exercises. Supplementary volume review exercises, series of foldouts, and a change supplement are also provided. (MN)

This three-volume student text is designed for use by Air Force personnel enrolled in a self-study extension course for medical laboratory technicians. Covered in the individual volumes are hematology (the physiology of blood, complete blood counts and related studies, erythrocyte studies, leukocyte and thrombocyte maturation, and blood coagulation studies); laboratory procedures in blood banking and immunohematology (immunohematology, blood group systems, transfusion and transfusion practices, and the blood donor center); and serology (principles of immunology and serology; agglutination tests; latex-fixation, precipitin, and ASO tests; and serological tests for syphilis). Each volume in the set contains a series of lessons, exercises at the end of each lesson, a bibliography, and answers to the exercises. Supplementary volume review exercises and a change supplement are also provided. (MN)

This five-volume student text is designed for use by Air Force personnel enrolled in a self-study extension course for radiology technicians. Covered in the individual volumes are radiographic fundamentals (x-ray production; primary beams; exposure devices; film, film holders, and darkrooms; control of film quality; and environmental safety); osteology and positioning (osteology positioning of the extremities, vertebral column, ribs, sternum, skull, facila bones, and paranasal sinuses and positioning of the upper and lower extremities, chest and abdomen, vertebral column, and skull); special techniques (mamography and zeroradiography, obstetrical radiography, ultrasonography, tomography, computer tomography, scanography and arthrography, bedside and surgical radiography, and film duplication and subtraction) special procedures (contrast studies of the digestive, urogenital, respiratory, cardiovascular, lymphatic, nervous, integumentary, and endocrine systems); and general information and radiation therapy (radiation therapy and management of department functions). Each volume in the set contains a series of lessons, exercises at the end of each lesson, a bibliography, and answers to the exercises. Supplementary volume review exercises and a change supplement are also provided. (MN)

This airframe repairman course comprises the self-study portion of an on-the-job training program. It deals with the job-related knowledge requirements for airframe repairs that are required to progress from the 3 to 5 skill level of the career field. It contains five volumes. Volume 1 (27 hours) covers the general subjects related to the operation of an airframe repair shop. Subjects such as career progression, security, publications, supply, supervision and training, maintenance management, and safety are covered. Volume 2 (54 hours) discusses the fundamentals of metal working. Volume 3 (27 hours) covers the basic repair procedures. Volume 4 (27 hours) advances the discussion into the various fastening methods, and volume 5 (42 hours) deals with the specialized repairs related to airframe repair. Subject matter is developed by a series of learning objectives which set learning goals. The text that follows each objective gives the information needed to reach that goal. Exercises following the information give a check on achievement. Answer keys appear in the back of each volume. Supplementary material provided for each volume contains replacement pages. Volume review exercises are also provided for each volume. (YLB)

This four-volume student text is designed for use by Air Force personnel enrolled in a self-study extension course for aircraft pneudraulic systems mechanics. Covered in the individual volumes are shop administration; fundamentals, materials, and equipment of pneudraulics; pneudraulic components; and pneudraulic systems. Each volume in the set contains a series of lessons, exercises at the end of each lesson, a bibliography, and answers to the exercises. Supplementary volume review exercises and change supplements are also provided. (MN)

This six-volume student text is designed for use by Air Force personnel enrolled in a self-study extension course for avionics instrument systems specialists. Covered in the individual volumes are career field familiarization (career field progression and training, security, occupational safety and health, and career field reference material); specialty administration and aircraft familiarization (supply; maintenance data collection, reporting, and management; supervision; and aircraft familiarization, hardware, and tools); electronic principles (fundamentals of electronics, alternating and direct current circuits, generators and motors, inductance and capacitance, electron tubes, semiconductors devices, analog computers, and binary systems and logic circuit elements); maintenance fundamentals and engine instruments (direct reading pressure gauges, synchros and variable reluctance systems, thrust measurement systems, tachometers and temperature-indicating systems, and vertical scale engine instrument systems); liquid quantity, utility, and recording systems; and flight and navigation instruments (basic pilot-static, electronic pilot-static, and navigation systems; vertical scale flight instruments, angle-of-attack/stall warning and sextants; and instrument systems test equipment). Each volume in the set contains a series of lessons, exercises at the end of each lesson, a bibliography, and answers to the exercises. Volume review exercises and change supplements are included. (MN)

This four-volume student text is designed for use by Air Force personnel enrolled in a self-study extension course for optometry specialists. Covered in the individual volumes are optometry clinic administration (optometry career and field training, ethical relationships and professionalism, eligibility for optometric care and appointment scheduling, facilities and personnel, administrative record keeping, equipment and supplies); preliminary clinical procedures (vision screening and additional preliminary tests); spectacle-related procedures (spectacle fitting and repairing, orders, and verification); and advanced optometry clinic procedures (specialized clinical techniques, visual programs, evaluation of ocular conditions, and classification of contact lenses). Each volume in the set contains a series of lessons, exercises at the end of each lesson, a bibliography, and answers to the exercises. Supplementary volume review exercises and a change supplement are also provided. (MN)