Official Description

SERVICES UTILIZATION FIELD (34MX)

The Services Utilization Field provides management and oversight of appropriated fund (APF) and nonappropriated fund (NAF) activities. Included are food service (dining facilities, flight kitchens, and other food service facilities); transient housing (visiting quarters and temporary lodging facilities); mortuary affairs (search and recovery, inspection of human remains, briefing next of kin, military honors, honor guard management, and personal property program); recreation activities (fitness centers, recreation centers, outdoor recreation activities, and information ticket and tours); libraries; private organizations; business activities (golf courses, clubs, bowling centers, youth programs ([child development school age program and youth centers]); membership clubs (rod and gun, and aero); NAF Human Resource Office; logistics; marketing; and other specialized programs and support staff functions such as Protocol. This field is also responsible for APF and NAF vehicle control; monitoring allocations received from the resource recycling and recovery program; pay telephone; leisure travel services; force management functions involving education, training, manpower, and human resource management; and command of services units.

Services personnel perform duties as the installation consumer affairs advocate for services provided by the Defense Commissary Agency (DeCA) and the Army and Air Force Exchange Service (AAFES). They provide liaison support to DeCA and AAFES unless directly assigned to a DeCA or AAFES activity; establish, maintain, and use automated information management systems such as Services Information Management System, Site Automation System, and NAF Management Information System; perform quality assurance functions when areas of responsibility are contracted; provide direction for overall human services by planning and carrying out surveys that indicate serviced population's interests and attitudes; and evaluate program needs by stimulating and maintaining interest and participation in hospitality and recreational activities.

The Services Utilization Field is a contingency-related field. Personnel serving in this field may participate in recovery operations as a result of natural or man-made disasters. They may also be subject to deployment and employment in hostile environments created by terrorism, sabotage, or chemical, biological, or conventional warfare. Personnel in this field establish, train, equip, and maintain in a ready status, specialized mobility teams that deploy to perform essential human services during wartime or other contingencies.

Excluded from this field are functions of APF contracting for services such as mortuary and disposition of excess or surplus APF property. These functions are included in the Acquisition Contracting/Manufacturing Utilization Field. Food service functions do not include hospital food service activities.

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