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A professional who this group includes occupations concerned with repairing, modifying, and maintaining in readiness small arms, field artillery, naval weapons, fire-control apparatus, munitions, and related ordnance.
* Occupations concerned with ordnance fabrication are covered in groups 694 and 736.
* Occupations concerned with instruments are covered in group 711.
* Occupations concerned with electronic equipment are covered in groups 722 and 823.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in inspecting, servicing, and repairing artillery weapons.
* Performs duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who services armament equipment used on military aircraft. Responsibilities include:
* Strips airplanes of removable armament equipment, such as machine guns, synchronizers, and bomb-release apparatus, using handtools.
* Disassembles, cleans, oils, and repairs dismantled equipment and nonremovable armament, such as machine-gun mounts and bomb hoists.
* Inspects electric circuits controlling bomb-release and gun-firing mechanisms, following wiring diagrams.
* Immerses equipment parts not in use in hot cosmoline to protect parts from rust and stores until needed.
* Reassembles and remounts equipment.
* May be designated according to specialty as bombsight specialist.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who services armament equipment used on military aircraft. Responsibilities include:
* Strips airplanes of removable armament equipment, such as machine guns, synchronizers, and bomb-release apparatus, using handtools.
* Disassembles, cleans, oils, and repairs dismantled equipment and nonremovable armament, such as machine-gun mounts and bomb hoists.
* Inspects electric circuits controlling bomb-release and gun-firing mechanisms, following wiring diagrams.
* Immerses equipment parts not in use in hot cosmoline to protect parts from rust and stores until needed.
* Reassembles and remounts equipment.
* May be designated according to specialty as bombsight specialist.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who services mechanical, electronic, and optical equipment controlling naval guns, following blueprints and diagrams and using handtools and testing devices. Responsibilities include:
* Inspects and cleans optical equipment, installing new eyepieces as necessary.
* Adjusts and lubricates gyroscope.
* Repairs and replaces parts of motors and remote control equipment, communications equipment, and electronic equipment, using handtools and standard test equipment.
* Participates in bore-sighting and aligning guns.
* Tests wiring circuits, following blueprints and diagrams.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who services mechanical, electronic, and optical equipment controlling naval guns, following blueprints and diagrams and using handtools and testing devices. Responsibilities include:
* Inspects and cleans optical equipment, installing new eyepieces as necessary.
* Adjusts and lubricates gyroscope.
* Repairs and replaces parts of motors and remote control equipment, communications equipment, and electronic equipment, using handtools and standard test equipment.
* Participates in bore-sighting and aligning guns.
* Tests wiring circuits, following blueprints and diagrams.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who inspects, tests, maintains, stores, and prepares for use ordnance material, such as guns, primers, fuses, shells, mines, bombs, rockets and guided missiles, tanks, chemical, biological, and radiological munitions, and fire-control equipment for weapons. Responsibilities include:
* Tests and inspects material for functioning and serviceability, using prescribed gauges and test equipment, and by firing or detonating weapons and munitions.
* Disassembles, repairs, and reassembles ordnance of all types, using handtools, power tools, and material-handling equipment.
* Assembles and loads explosive and inert elements to prepare ammunition items for use.
* Cleans, stores, and maintains ordnance material according to technical manuals.
* May be designated according to ordnance item involved as munitions worker; nuclear weapons mechanical specialist; torpedo specialist.
* May maintain small arms and artillery and be designated armorer.
* May deactivate unexploded bombs and mines and be designated bomb-disposal specialist.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who repairs and modifies firearms to blueprint and customer specifications, using handtools and machines, such as grinders, planers, and millers. Responsibilities include:
* Fits action and barrel into stock and aligns parts.
* Installs parts, such as metallic or optical sights, pistol grips, recoil pads, and decorative pieces of firearms, using screws and handtools.
* Rebores barrels on boring machine to enlarge caliber of bore.
* Operates broaching machine to cut rifling in barrel of small arms.
* Installs choke device on shotguns to control shot pattern.
* Operates machine to grind and polish metal parts.
* Immerses metal parts in bluing salt bath to impart rust resistant surface and blue color to metal.
* Fires firearms with proof loads to determine strength characteristics, correct alignment, and assembly of piece.
* Fabricates wooden stock for guns according to customer specifications.
* Refinishes wooden stocks for rifles and shotguns by hand sanding and rubbing with special finishing oil and quick-drying lacquer.
* May lay out plans on paper and calculate bullet-flight arcs, sight positions, and other details to design new guns.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up machines to measure and weigh loaded cartridges. Responsibilities include:
* Turns setscrews and nuts to adjust and synchronize feeding, gauging, weighing, and ejection mechanisms, using handtools, and master cartridge and fixed gauges to verify settings.
* Starts machine and inspects sample cartridges for conformance to weight and size specifications.
* Disassembles machine to replace worn or broken parts or to install parts to accommodate specific size or type of cartridge, using handtools.
* Tags trays of rejected cartridges, indicating reason for rejection, and routes them to other workers for reinspection or salvage.
* Cleans and lubricates equipment.
* Gives instructions to new workers for operating machine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up automatic machine to fill small arms cartridge cases with powder and insert bullets. Responsibilities include:
* Installs machine parts, such as shell and bullet dials, carriers, punches, crimping die, and powder charge regulator, to accommodate designated size and type of cartridge to be filled, using handtools.
* Turns setscrews or nuts to adjust and synchronize mechanisms.
* Cleans machine and lubricates moving parts.
* Polishes punches and dies to remove scratches or adhering brass, using bench grinder and emery cloth.
* Disassembles machine or parts to remove jammed cartridges and to replace worn or broken parts.
* Tests sample of cartridges for pullout of bullets and weighs powder load, using pull-test machine and gram scale.
* Records test results.
* Gives instructions to new workers in operation of machines and use of gauges.
Industry:Professional careers
