Artillery and Missile Crew MembersOnet SOC Code 55-3014.00
Career Description: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.
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- Job training consists of between 10 and 16 weeks of classroom instruction and field training under simulated combat conditions. Course content typically includes methods of computing target locations, ammunition handling techniques, artillery tactics and gun, missile, and rocket system operations. Further training occurs on the job and through advanced courses. The Army, Navy, and Marines offer a certified apprenticeship program for one specialty in this occupation.
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*Some salaries are listed at an hourly rate. Those that include a single dollar amount are considered hourly wage.
Wage and salary data provided by:
- Bureau of Labor Statistics, Tennessee Department of Labor website
- TN Department of Labor & Workforce Development website
- Bureau of Economic Analysis website
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