How do they match: Artillery and Missile Crew Members

  • Advanced TOMAHAWK Weapon Control System (ATWCS) AN/SWG-4 Operator and Maintenance Technician
  • Field Artillery Automated Tactical Data System Specialist
  • Guided Missile Launching System Maintenance Technician
  • Guided Missile Launching System Technician
  • HAWK Missile System Crewmember
  • High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) Operator
  • Man Portable Air Defense System Crewmember (RC)
  • Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) Crewmember
  • Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) Operations/Fire Direction Specialist
  • Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS)/High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) Crewmember
  • Submarine Vertical Launch System Tube Maintenance Technician
  • TOMAHAWK Weapon System (Surface) Operator
  • Tactical Automated Fire Control Systems Specialist
  • Vertical Launching System (VLS) Advanced Technician

  • 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.