I'm doing my Operations Officer SDA right now, and I'm trying to wrap my mind around this position. Is the Ops officer senior to the ES Officer, Flight Ops, and Stan/Eval positions? IOW, do those positions report to the Ops officer and the Ops officer is responsible for taking care of any position not filled?
The other thought I had was that perhaps the Ops officer isn't really a position so much as that Flight Ops, Stan/Eval, and ES are all different aspects of that position.
Where I'm driving at with this is that if you have the other three positions, I don't see why you would want an Ops officer except to coordinate the other three positions. Another reason may be that in a smaller squadron, you don't have the manpower for all three positions, so you just appoint an Ops officer.
Any help would be appreciated.
Quote from: CAPR 20-1Operations Officer: Manages and directs all operations activities.
As a note, I think I'm correct in assuming the Ops officer essentially runs the other positions based upon the nature of the language used to describe the position.