Air Traffic Control Fully Certified
Air Traffic Control Time Certified In Pos 1 (yrs) 3
Workload; Situational Awareness; Distraction
Deviation - Altitude Excursion From Assigned Altitude; Deviation - Altitude Overshoot; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Clearance; Inflight Event / Encounter Weather / Turbulence; Inflight Event / Encounter Fuel Issue; Inflight Event / Encounter CFTT / CFIT
Air Traffic Control Issued New Clearance; Air Traffic Control Provided Assistance; Flight Crew Returned To Clearance
Human Factors; Weather
Aircraft X [flight] got handed off from ZLC they passed along that they were low fuel. Aircraft X was a flight of 6. With the weather being poor and the visibility being 4 miles an instrument approach is what they were requesting. That being said; their TACAN and ILS were both out of service. The only way they were getting in was a visual to [Runway] XXR. So I vectored the flight behind the [civilian] aircraft coming from the south. Giving them block altitudes above the MVA so they had proper spacing amongst themselves. As I was stepping Aircraft X down they kept wanting lower and lower in order to get the visual approach. I stepped them down to 5000 and they descended to 4800; I gave them an LOA (low altitude alert). Then after fixing that issue I gave them 4500 once they were in the 4500 MVA. Turned them to final and I noticed that they dropped below 4500. So I gave them another LOA and told them to maintain 4500. I asked them numerous times if they had the airport in sight. They said no so I climbed them to 8000 and told them to fly heading 100. Aircraft X flight 2-5 reported the field in sight and at that point I cleared them for the visual. Aircraft X 6 didn't get the airport so I turned him away from the mountains and climbed them. After that I gave him a new squawk code and split Aircraft X 1 and Aircraft X 6 up. After clearing Aircraft X 6 to ZZZ and verifying his altitude I sequenced the two flights to get the visual behind another arrival. When we have airplanes that are low fuel and have no approaches we need to get those approaches fixed. Tech ops or who ever was fixing them need to understand the situation on hand.
TRACON Controller reported having to break up a flight of 6 fighters to get them to land.