Career Overview
Target, fire, and maintain weapons used to destroy enemy positions, aircraft, and vessels. Field artillery crew members predominantly use guns, cannons, and howitzers in ground combat operations, while air defense artillery crew members predominantly use missiles and rockets. Naval artillery crew members predominantly use torpedoes and missiles launched from a ship or submarine. Duties include testing, inspecting, and storing ammunition, missiles, and torpedoes; conducting preventive and routine maintenance on weapons and related equipment; establishing and maintaining radio and wire communications; and operating weapons targeting, firing, and launch computer systems.
Alternate Job Titles
- Advanced TOMAHAWK Weapon Control System (ATWCS) AN/SWG-4 Operator and Maintenance Technician
- Air and Missile Defense (AMD) Crewmember
- Aircraft Armament Mechanic
- Anti-tank Missileman
- Artillery Meteorological Man
- ATWCS Launch Control Group Replacement (LCGR) Operation and Maintenance Technician
- Cannon Crewmember
- Cannon Fire Direction Specialist
- Field Artillery Automated Tactical Data System Specialist
- Field Artillery Basic
- Field Artillery Cannoneer
- Field Artillery Crewmember
- Field Artillery Fire Control Man
- Field Artillery Operations Man
- Fire Control Mechanic
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Occupational data sourced from the O*NET OnLine database, developed by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration. Wage data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), 2024.