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A professional who services, repairs, and overhauls drone target aircraft and aircraft engines. Respnsibilities include:
* Repairs, replaces, and assembles parts, such as wings, cowlings, stabilizers, and propeller assembly, using power tools and handtools to rebuild or replace airframe or airframe components.
* Replaces worn or damaged parts, such as spark plugs, parachute, and battery, using handtools.
* Tests aircraft engine operation.
* Places aircraft on launching device, including catapult launcher.
* Installs JATO or other launching propellant.
* Starts aircraft, using portable starting equipment.
* Adjusts carburetor to regulate fuel mixture to attain optimum engine performance.
* Performs preflight inspection of target aircraft.
* Inspects launching device prior to each launch.
* Diagnoses electronic malfunctions.
* Repairs and replaces defective parts and wiring.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates sound ranging equipment to detect location of enemy artillery fire during combat or training, serving as member of sound ranging crew. Respnsibilities include:
* Patrols area and selects operating site.
* Deploys and positions sound detection equipment and monitors equipment to detect sounds of enemy artillery fire.
* Records sound data and computes location of enemy artillery.
* Notifies friendly artillery unit, using radio, of direction and location of enemy artillery.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who drives military wheeled or tracked vehicle and observes area to gather information concerning terrain features, enemy strength, and location, serving as member of ground armored reconnaissance unit. Respnsibilities include:
* Reports information to commander, using secure voice communication procedure.
* Writes field messages to report combat reconnaissance information.
* Drives armored, tracked, and wheeled vehicles in support of tactical operations to harass, delay, and destroy enemy troops.
* Directs gunfire from vehicle to provide covering or flanking fire against enemy attack.
* Prepares and employs night firing aids to assist in delivering accurate fire.
* Tests surrounding air to determine presence and identity of chemical agents, using chemical agent detecting equipment, radiac, or radiological monitoring device.
* Drives vehicle to bridge locations to mark routes and control traffic.
* Requests and adjusts mortar and artillery fire on targets and reports effectiveness of fire.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who observes and reports by specified means of communications, enemy and simulated enemy locations to coordinate and adjust artillery or naval gunfire during combat or training. Respnsibilities include:
* Selects sites for observation posts.
* Sets up observation and communication instruments and equipment.
* Informs infantry, artillery, or naval gunfire ships of enemy activity, location of friendly troops and other pertinent intelligence data, using radio.
* Confers with artillery and gunship personnel to request and adjust artillery and naval gunfire.
* Confers with fire direction center personnel to report gunfire results based on knowledge of characteristics, capabilities, and limitations of artillery, mortar, rocket, and naval gunfire, using radio.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who collects, records, and evaluates information pertinent to location of enemy weapons for use by friendly artillery, using chronograph, gun direction computer, and other fire direction equipment. Respnsibilities include:
* Observes enemy fire, using transit and records angle to firing position.
* Measures velocity of projectiles fired from enemy weapon, using chronograph.
* Determines direction of enemy weapons, using gun direction computer.
* Collects data and constructs firing chart to plot target location.
* Computes azimuth (direction), elevation, and other firing data (information to engage target).
* Communicates firing data to artillery unit personnel, using radio and transmits artillery fire adjustment data to artillery unit.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who measures range and horizontal and vertical angles to enemy artillery flashes and projectile bursts, using flash ranging equipment in observation post. Respnsibilities include:
* Selects location site for observation post.
* Performs traverse survey to establish coordinate location of observation post.
* Orients and calibrates flash ranging instruments.
* Observes enemy weapon flashes during firing and projectile bursts, using flash ranging instrument, and records horizontal and vertical angles to flash or burst.
* Computes data to determine distance and direction of enemy emplacement.
* Confers with artillery personnel to report location of enemy forces and effectiveness of friendly fire weapons.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who collects, evaluates, and prepares operation and intelligence information at battalion or higher headquarters for combined arms combat operations. Respnsibilities include:
* Assists superior in organizing and operating unit operations section when deployed in field.
* Prepares operation maps, maintains situation maps, indicating location, strength, tactical deployment and emplacements of friendly and enemy units.
* Receives and records on situation maps pertinent information obtained from intelligence and reconnaissance reports, using conventional signs and symbols.
* Prepares and maintains operations journal which contains briefs of important written and oral messages received and sent, notations of periodic reports, orders, and specified matters that pertain to section or unit.
* Assists superior in preparing war diaries and special reports upon completion of operation.
* Prepares orders, training orders, memorandums, schedules, status, and periodic reports.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who collects, consolidates, and evaluates air defense intelligence information received from ground observers; radar sections; other supportive units; and prepares and revises operations and situation maps. Respnsibilities include:
* Communicates with intelligence personnel from radar, ground observation, and other supportive units to collect air defense information, using field telephone and radiotelephone equipment, and plots early warning information on situation board.
* Prepares and revises operations and situation maps to indicate location, strength, and tactical employment of friendly and hostile units.
* Alerts personnel of firing batteries as to grid locations of incoming targets, using radio.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who observes, locates, and reports enemy force movements and terrain characteristics from vantage point. Respnsibilities include:
* Conducts surveillance from vantage post to observe such places as bridges, airfields, roads, and rivers to detect enemy movements.
* Observes beach areas to determine possible amphibious landing site.
* Requests artillery, air, and naval gunfire to destroy enemy forces, using radio.
* Fires weapons, such as pistol, rifle, and grenade launcher.
* Studies maps and aerial photographs to locate enemy force.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates airborne sensing equipment to locate and identify friendly and enemy aircraft. Respnsibilities include:
* Places and secures sensing and monitoring equipment, such as IFF, infrared, and radar, in aircraft.
* Pushes buttons, presses switches and turns knobs to start, control, and stop equipment.
* Observes equipment scopes and indicators to obtain data to determine location and identity of aircraft.
* Contacts Command Post personnel, using radio, to report presence of enemy aircraft.
* Examines equipment to detect malfunctions.
* Replaces malfunctioning components, including tubes and circuit boards, to repair equipment, using handtools.
Industry:Professional careers
