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2.1.4. Medical Requirements. All Airmen and accompanying family members must undergo a 
comprehensive physical examination and gain medical and educational clearance IAW AFI 40-
701, Special Needs Identification and Assignment Coordination, dated May 18, 2006, as part of 
the screening selection process. Medical and educational clearances must be re-validated and 
approved within 6-months of reporting to overseas assignment. 2A571s applying for AMT special 
duty assignments must pass a Class 3 flight physical.  
 
2.2. Application and Selection. (…) 
 
2.3. DAS Tour Curtailments/Tour Extensions/Back-to-Back Tours/Fill Rates.  
 
2.3.1. Curtailments (= interruption de séjour, séjours écourtés). DAS assignments are sensitive, 
high visibility positions – gaps of any kind impact DoD/Service missions. Attachés/attaché support 
personnel are expected to remain on station through their Date Eligible for Return from Overseas 
(DEROS). Requests for tour curtailments will be considered by DIA and the USAF on a case-by-
case basis with significant justification. For those retiring or separating, departure prior to DEROS 
for terminal leave and Permissive Temporary Duty (PTDY) will be closely scrutinized and usually 
not supported, unless the replacement is able to arrive on station to execute the appropriate 
turnover and prevent a gap.  
 
2.3.2. Extensions (= prolongations de séjour). The Air Force will consider tour extensions on a 
case-by-case basis, if also supported by DIA. Extensions are normally limited to four years total on 
station.  
 
2.3.3. Back-to-Back DAS Tours (= enchaîner les séjours en Mission de défense). The Air Force 
will consider back-to-back DAS tours on a case-by-case basis, if also supported by DIA. For 
attachés, back-to-back tours will typically not be supported without significant mission justification. 
Attaché support personnel, with the approval of their primary career field manager, will typically be 
considered for no more than one back-to-back tour in the DAS before returning to their primary 
career field, or serving in a SAF/IA headquarters assignment.  
 
2.3.4. Due to the critical nature of the DAS to national security, DoD and the Air Force international 
relations and engagements, and worldwide DoD situational awareness, Air Force officers and 
NCO billets (= affectations) in the DAS will be filled as close to 100 percent as possible.  
 
Chapter 3 
 
RESPONSIBILITIES 
 
3.1. Deputy Under Secretary of the Air Force, International Affairs (SAF/IA ) (…) 
 
3.8. Duties and responsibilities of Air Force personnel assigned to the DAS:  
 
3.8.1. Senior Defense Official/Defense Attaché (SDO/DATT) responsibilities are outlined in DoD 
Directive 5105.75, Department of Defense Operations at U.S. Embassies, dated December 21, 
2007, and DoD Instruction C-5105.81, Implementing Instructions for Department of Defense 
Operations at U.S. Embassies, dated November 6, 2008.  
 
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3.8.1.1. SDO/DATTs serve as the Defense Attaché and Chief of Security Cooperation under 
the joint oversight and administrative management of the USD(P) and USD(I) through the 
Directors, Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) and DIA, in coordination with the 
GCC. They act as in-country focal point for planning, coordinating, supporting, and/or 
executing U.S. defense issues and activities in the host nation, including Theater Security 
Cooperation programs under the oversight of the GCC. SDO/DATTs also serve as the 
principal embassy liaison with host nation defense establishments and actively participate 
in national security and operational policy development and coordination.