FIND YOUR CAREER IN THE U.S. ARMY
THE MEDICAL CAREER FIELD
As a Biomedical Equipment Specialist, you'll be responsible for servicing and maintaining all medical equipment with mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic, electronic, digital, optical, and radiological principles. You’ll perform calibrations and preventive maintenance, inspect equipment for serviceability, perform operational checkout procedures, troubleshoot and isolate malfunctions, replace and repair defective components, install medical equipment considering power and space requirements, and record all services performed.
As an Orthopedic Specialist, you'll assist with all kinds of patient care at an Orthopedic clinic—where patients are treated for pain and injuries to bones, joints, and muscles. You'll help prep patients for surgery, monitor their care afterwards, and even assist orthopedic surgeons with procedures in the operating room.
As a Practical Nursing Specialist, you'll provide the highest level of quality medical care to Soldiers and their Families by performing preventive, therapeutic, and emergency nursing care under the supervision of a physician, registered nurse, or non-commissioned Officer.
As an Operating Room Specialist, you'll assist nurses in prepping patients for surgery and providing assistance to doctors during surgical procedures. You'll ensure that operating rooms and surgical tools are properly sterilized and inspected before and after procedures.
As a Dental Specialist, you'll receive the specialized training needed to assist Army dentists in the examination and treatment of servicemembers’ teeth. You'll help the dentist prepare for operations by selecting and arranging instruments and by taking patient’s dental impressions and X-rays. You’ll also manage the dental offices and patient records, perform preventive cleanings, take the patient’s blood pressure, pulse, and help administer anesthesia when needed.
As a Physical Therapy Specialist, you’ll help licensed Physical Therapists treat and rehabilitate patients suffering from a variety of injuries and illnesses in order to decrease their pain and promote a physically fit lifestyle so they can be in top physical condition. You’ll receive the intensive instruction needed to provide patient care and administer physical therapy treatments that will treat disabilities and prevent future injuries.
As a Patient Administration Specialist, you'll be entrusted with serving the military community and their Families and providing essential support to the clinical staff of a hospital. You’ll perform administrative duties for patients, and you’ll utilize your knowledge of medical terms and statistical reports to manage medical records and keep track of patient health.
As an Optical Laboratory Specialist, you'll gain the specialized training needed to make and repair the eyewear that is provided to Soldiers in the Army. You'll use your knowledge of optics and ocular health to sort and forward prescriptions, prepare and make prescription lenses, inspect them for accuracy, assemble frames, and perform repairs and maintenance on optical tools and machines.
As a Medical Logistics Specialist, you'll be responsible for receiving, storing, and issuing Army medical supplies. You'll budget for, order, and inventory new supplies, use machinery such as forklifts and hand trucks to load and unload crates of supplies, and perform quality control checks.
As a Medical Laboratory Specialist, you'll have the important responsibility of caring for and aiding in the diagnosis and treatment of the Soldiers. You’ll collect samples from patients and perform chemical and biological tests to help diagnose. You’ll have to work through a lot of unknowns and be willing and able to work through projects autonomously and confidently. You’ll sample blood types, perform elementary blood banking, conduct laboratory procedures, maintain laboratory equipment, and pack, unpack, inspect, store, and distribute blood and blood products.
As a Nutrition Care Specialist, you'll provide healthy and nutritious diets for patients and medical nutrition therapy for military service members, their Families, retirees, and veterans. You’ll prepare and serve food that meets each patient’s individual medical condition for rapid recovery, disease management, and the promotion of health and wellness. You’ll work with a Registered Dietitian to create customized diets and specially balanced menus for patients, and you’ll teach wellness, nutrition, health, and good food choices.
As a Radiology Specialist, you will operate X-rays and other medical imaging equipment to diagnose and treat injuries and diseases. You will be responsible for administering tests for all different types of imaging, such as digestive respiratory, vascular, nervous system, and prenatal, all while making sure your patients are taken care of.
As a Pharmacy Specialist, you'll be an integral member of the healthcare team, preparing and issuing prescribed pharmaceuticals and medicines, while also maintaining pharmacy supplies and records under the supervision of pharmacists and doctors. You will evaluate orders, verify dosage calculations, and provide instructions to patients on how to properly take the medicine.
As a Veterinary Food Specialist, you’ll be in charge of food safety, quality assurance, and protection from unintentional or intentional contamination of food, not that animals will consume, but the food that you and your fellow Soldiers will eat. You’ll also be responsible for supervising food inspection and combined veterinary service activities. You’ll be at the forefront of food safety and defense, using statistical sampling methods to make sure food is being inspected for freshness, proper storage and delivery, and ensure that all food items are packaged according to the Department of Defense standards.
As a Preventive Medicine Specialist, you'll be a major contributor when it comes to keeping the Army healthy and preventing the spread of infection and disease. You'll conduct laboratory tests to monitor the spread of bacteria, keep health records, and survey and track conditions for potential risks. You’ll have the skills and training necessary to recommend proper corrective actions to ensure good health for our Soldiers.
As an Animal Care Specialist, you'll help provide medical care, management, and treatment for government-owned animals, similar to that of a veterinary technician. You will prevent and control the spread of diseases from animals to humans. You'll help Army veterinarians conduct routine exams, administer medications, and perform surgical and emergency procedures for animals. It’ll be your responsibility to ensure the best possible treatment, so the animals can provide a great service to the Army.
As a Respiratory Specialist, your focus will be to help patients with chronic or sudden breathing problems. You'll be assisting doctors and advanced nurses in treating patients in both emergency and non-emergency situations, preparing blood samples for lab tests, and administering tests that check lung capacity and function.
As a Combat Medic Specialist, you'll administer emergency medical care in the field in both combat and humanitarian situations. You'll serve as a first responder and triage illnesses and injuries to save lives. You'll also train other Soldiers in lifesaver/first responder courses.
As a Behavior Health Specialist, you'll work under the supervision of psychologists, psychiatrists, and social workers to help administer mental health care to service members. You'll conduct intake interviews and counsel patients to ensure they get the treatment they need to be productive and healthy members of the Army. Additionally, you'll be needed to help your fellow soldiers learn to manage any existing mental health conditions, behavior problems, struggles with drugs and alcohol, and stresses that arise as part of Army service.
US ARMY ENGINEERING
As a Combat Engineer, you’ll work quickly and skillfully to help Soldiers navigate while on combat missions by constructing bridges, clearing barriers with explosives, and detecting and avoiding mines and other environmental hazards. You'll provide expertise and come up with quick and creative engineering solutions, constructing fighting positions, fixed and floating bridges, and obstacles and defense positions.
As a Bridge Crewmember, you'll help construct bridges and rafts to help Soldiers cross rough terrain, bodies of water, and barriers they might encounter in the field. You'll help create floating bridges and rafts from a boat as well as help combat engineers create safe crossings on land by building structures or demolishing obstacles.
As a Diver, you’ll have the unique skills to conduct reconnaissance, demolition, and salvage underwater. You’ll also assist with underwater construction and specialize in either scuba diving or deep-sea diving. You’ll support special warfare and explosive ordnance disposal troops while using diving gear.
As an Army Plumber, you’ll be crucial in keeping the Army operating smoothly by installing, repairing, and making construction plans for new pipe systems and insulation. You’ll install and repair pipe systems, plumbing fixtures, vents, and insulation, and you’ll read, interpret, and make construction plans for new pipe systems.
As an Army Firefighter, you’ll have the vital task of protecting peoples’ lives and property from fire, much like their civilian counterparts. You’ll control and prevent fires, not only in Army structures, but also aboard aircraft and ships. You’ll supervise and conduct firefighting, rescue, salvage, and fire protection operations, and you’ll perform emergency response duties during hazardous materials incidents.
As a Horizontal Construction Engineer, you’ll operate heavy construction equipment like bulldozers, tractors, backhoes, cranes, excavators, and road graders to help pave the way for fellow Soldiers and to make room for construction projects. Without safe roads to travel, it’s hard for Soldiers to move around, especially in unfamiliar territory. You’ll also assist Army engineers to analyze construction site needs and transport heavy construction equipment from one site to another.
As a Power Distribution Specialist, you'll have the important responsibility of powering electricity to the Army. You’ll build, install, and maintain electrical distribution systems like utility poles, power lines, and electrical hardware that supply power for all operations.
As an Interior Electrician, you'll install, maintain, and safely distribute electricity, the driving force behind today’s Army. You’ll work on interior electrical systems, including transformers, circuit breakers, electrical boxes, and lightning rods. You'll test equipment and fix any short circuits in wires and faulty equipment, and you'll learn to read blueprints and wire plans to determine layouts and repair.
As a Technical Engineer, you’ll supervise and execute construction site development with technical investigation, surveys, drafts, and construction plans/specifications. You’ll also use digital equipment and software to draw topographic maps and charts to prepare detailed plans for construction projects.
As a Carpentry and Masonry Specialist, you'll have the skills needed to handle a variety of carpentry and masonry duties, building important structures for the Army using hand and power tools, lumber, concrete, stones, and bricks. You’ll also help combat engineers build structures to respond to rough terrain and environmental hazards.
As a Geospatial Engineer, you’ll provide invaluable visualization of the land and battlefield in advance of sending troops into unfamiliar terrain. From conditions and effects of terrain and weather on vehicles and troop movements, to points of tactical interest during missions, you’ll examine all aspects of the battlefield before boots ever hit the ground. You’ll extract and analyze geographic data from satellite imagery, photography, and field reconnaissance, then use this data to create different types of maps and databases. You will also use the information you gather to support military and civilian operations for Disaster Relief and Homeland Security.
INTELLIGENCE
As an Intelligence Analyst, you’ll be responsible for providing the Army with crucial and reliable information about enemy forces and potential areas of conflict. You’ll analyze, assess, process, and distribute tactical intelligence, as well as create, document, organize, and cross-reference intelligence records and files.
As a Geospatial Intelligence Imagery Analyst, you’ll analyze visual data to provide Army leadership with critical information about enemy forces, potential battle areas, and mission support. You’ll use aerial imagery, geospatial data, full motion video, and other electronic monitoring to help determine precise target coordinates, identify enemy positions, navigate obstacles, and design defense and combat plans.
As a Human Intelligence Collector, you’ll collect intelligence about an adversary’s intentions, strengths, vulnerabilities, and capabilities, and you’ll share this critical information to help Army leaders better understand the enemy. You’ll debrief and interrogate human intelligence sources, analyze and prepare intelligence reports, and screen human intelligence sources and documents.
As a Signals Intelligence Analyst, you’ll examine and analyze foreign communications and activity to find intelligence, and you’ll relay this critical information to senior leaders by producing strategic and tactical reports based on your analysis. You’ll help place, camouflage, and recover surveillance equipment and identify, track, and analyze a target’s operational patterns to assist leaders to formulate an attack plan. View yourself as a detective as you collect intelligence to help determine what the enemy is doing.
As a Signals Intelligence Voice Interceptor, you’ll be responsible for identifying, categorizing, translating, and summarizing foreign language communications from an assigned geographic area. You’ll also operate and oversee signals equipment used in signals intelligence operations. You’ll carry out basic Intelligence Oversight, help conduct military briefings, and tip the appropriate authorities when needed.
This role is crucial as the nation’s defense depends largely on information that comes from foreign languages.
As a Signals Collection Analyst, you'll gather clues from radio frequencies and electronic signals to detect and collect coded foreign intelligence messages. You'll intercept and identify these nonverbal frequencies and keep logs in order to piece together secret tactical messages.
As a Military Intelligence (MI) Systems Maintainer / Integrator, you’ll make sure we can always find, know, and never lose the enemy by making sure the equipment used by the Military Intelligence Soldiers, including computers and networks, is kept in top working condition. You’ll maintain, test, and repair communications equipment, and you’ll assess and extract the data from fixed, portable, and wireless communication devices.
AVIATION
As an Aircraft Powerplant Repairer, you'll inspect and perform maintenance on aircraft turbine engines and components to make sure they are safe and ready to fly. You'll diagnose and troubleshoot problems with airplane and helicopter engines and do operational and safety checks.
As an Aircraft Powertrain Repairer, you'll inspect and perform maintenance on aircraft powertrains systems—disassembling and fixing parts such as transmissions, engines, and rotary wings. You'll adjust, balance, and align all powertrain systems to make sure planes and helicopters are safe and ready to fly.
As an Unmanned Aircraft Systems Repairer, you'll work with cutting-edge technology and surveillance, maintaining unmanned aircraft by making sure they are ready to fly and able to gather and transmit important intelligence information. You’ll repair electrical, avionics, propulsions, communications, takeoff and landing, and fuel systems.
As an Aircraft Electrician, you'll help keep today’s sophisticated Army aircraft flying safely by supervising, inspecting, troubleshooting, and performing maintenance on aircraft electrical systems.
As an Aircraft Structural Repairer, you'll make sure Army airplanes and helicopters are safe and ready to fly by performing maintenance and repairs, creating new parts out of metal and fiberglass, and testing safety and technical procedures.
As an Aircraft Pneudraulics Repairer, you'll inspect and perform maintenance on airplane and helicopter pneudraulic systems — the combination of hydraulic and compressed air pressure that powers aircraft parts, such as landing gear, rudders, and brakes. You'll diagnose and troubleshoot mechanical problems and test components to make sure aircraft are safe and ready to fly.
As an Avionic Mechanic, you’ll play a critical role in keeping Army planes and their equipment safe and up to date, performing maintenance on tactical-communications-security, communication, navigation, and flight control equipment.
As an Aviation Operations Specialist, you'll be responsible for scheduling and dispatching tactical aircraft missions and making one the largest fleets of aircraft in the world run safely and efficiently. You will coordinate flight plans, maintain flight logs, and alert crash crews of emergencies.
As an Air Traffic Control (ATC) Operator, you'll track aircraft to ensure mission success while maintaining critical safe flight operations. You’ll coordinate aircraft movement for takeoff and landing as well as track aircraft in flight in both tactical and non-tactical environments. You’ll have to follow specific procedures, rules, and regulations. You’ll control airborne and ground traffic for safety, process flight plan data, and you will help set up tactical air traffic control facilities on the frontlines, ensuring the safety of every pilot and passenger.
As a UH-60 Helicopter Repairer, you will maintain and fix UH-60 ("Black Hawk") helicopters, making sure they are safe and ready to fly in hundreds of Army missions.
As a CH-47 Helicopter Repairer, you’ll maintain and repair the CH-47 helicopters (also known as the “Chinook”). As the Army’s most utilized helicopter, with hundreds of Army missions depending on them, you’ll have to ensure that they are safe and ready to fly.
As an Unmanned Aircraft Systems Operator, you’ll be an intelligence specialist, integral to providing Army personnel with information about enemy forces and battle areas. You’ll train and utilize specialized skills to conduct air reconnaissance, surveillance, targeting missions, and analyze aerial photographs.
As an AH-64 Armament/Electrical/Avionic Systems Repairer, you'll repair and maintain twin-engine attack helicopters. You will troubleshoot mechanical and electrical problems and maintain and authorize modifications to weapons, firing, and targeting systems. You will do safety tests and preventive checks to make sure all helicopters are safe and ready to fly.
US ARMY SIGNAL CORPS
As a Cyber Network Defender, you’ll perform specialized computer network defense duties, including infrastructure support, incident response, auditing, and managing. You’ll also detect and protect against unauthorized activity in the cyberspace domain and use a variety of tools to analyze and respond to attacks.
As a Nodal Network Systems Operator-Maintainer, you'll be part of the telecommunications team. You’ll have the responsibility to supervise, install, operate, and perform field-level maintenance on electronic communications equipment to make sure that the lines of communication are always up and running. You’ll work on internet protocol bases, high-speed electronic communications systems, and network communication systems.
As a Multichannel Transmissions Systems Operator-Maintainer, you'll work to provide reliable and timely information by installing, repairing, and operating radio, satellite, and multichannel transmissions, security devices, and power generators, and you’ll analyze diagnostics to isolate faults to ensure the right information will always be received at the right time. You’ll also train to set up transmitters, receivers, cable modems, and ultra-high frequency antennas.
As a Visual Information Equipment Operator-Maintainer, you’ll be responsible for filming, script editing, and recording military operations and news events that support Army operations.
As a Satellite Communication Systems Operator-Maintainer, you'll be responsible for all technical aspects of satellite equipment installation, operations, configuration, and alignment in order to keep lines of communication up and running. You’ll get hands-on training in the inspection, troubleshooting, and preventive maintenance that will be a core function of your duties. You’ll install, operate, and maintain ground terminals, systems, and networks that keep the entire Army updated, informed, and situationally aware.
As a Signal Support Systems Specialist, you’ll maintain vital signal support systems and terminal devices; the equipment that needs to consistently work in order for commanders to stay informed, track, and direct the movement of their troops. You'll perform signal support and technical assistance for computer systems, local area networks, and you’ll perform maintenance on equipment, terminal devices, power generators, and vehicles. You’ll also detect enemy signals and jam enemy radio transmissions.
As a Combat Documentation/Production Specialist, you’ll supervise, plan, and operate electronic and film-based still, video, and audio equipment in order to document combat and noncombat operations. You’ll perform maintenance on cameras, do electronic and film-based processing, editing, audio, and printing in darkrooms.
As a Radio and Communications Security Repairer, you’ll perform or supervise essential preventive maintenance checks and services on radios, transmitters, communication security equipment, and other associated equipment to ensure secure communication is always available. It’ll be your responsibility to calibrate and align equipment components, and use test, measurement, and diagnostic equipment. You’ll test program sets and use interactive electronic technical manuals in order to troubleshoot and repair equipment.
MILITARY POLICE
As a Military Police Officer, you’ll be responsible for ensuring the safety and protection of Army personnel, equipment, and resources. You’ll control and secure terrain inside and outside military installations, as well as manage, supervise and control secured areas. Additionally, you’ll supervise police intelligence missions, help train local law enforcement teams, lead small, tactical military police units, and function as an advisor to the Army Reserve and Army National Guard.
As a Criminal Investigations Special Agent, you’ll be responsible for conducting criminal investigations of interest to the Army. You’ll handle felony-level cases where you will process crime scenes, collect evidence, conduct interviews and interrogations, provide forensic lab support, and ensure the security of Army personnel and property.
As a Corrections/Detention Specialist, you’ll be mainly responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations in a military correctional facility or detention facility. Additionally, you’ll offer counseling and guidance to individual prisoners within a rehabilitative program.
As a Military Working Dog Handler, you’ll be responsible for the care and training of a service dog, both at home and abroad, supporting missions and daily law enforcement. Military Working Dogs search for narcotic drugs or explosives and act as a non-lethal option for neutralizing threats. Service dogs also serve as a psychological deterrent during law enforcement operations.
TRANSPORTATION CORPS
As a Cargo Specialist, you'll be the cargo handling expert for everything the Army moves by land, sea, or air. You’ll ensure the Army receives supplies, weapons, the mail, and equipment on a daily basis all over the world. You will be trained in cargo documentation, the securing of cargo, and learn how to load and unload cargo manually or by operating material handling equipment like cranes and forklifts.
As a Watercraft Operator, you’ll be responsible for navigation, cargo operations, and supervising other Soldiers on Army watercraft. As part of the piloting team, you’ll train in the basics of seamanship and vessel operations, using electronic positioning systems, handheld navigation devices, and traditional watch standing procedures. You’ll learn boat handling techniques, how to dock and undock vessels, drop and weigh anchor, interpret code signal flags, and send and receive messages via radio, beacon, and signal flag. Since safety is such an important part of this job, you’ll also learn emergency water survival, how to operate lifeboats, shipboard firefighting, and other emergency procedures.
As a Watercraft Engineer, you’ll supervise or perform maintenance and repairs on Army watercraft and auxiliary equipment on marine vessels in order to keep them running at all times. You’ll perform daily systems checks, repair and maintain gasoline and diesel engines, troubleshoot and repair watercraft propulsion machinery, and repair and service lift machinery and engine-related electrical systems. To do this, you’ll train in basic electronics, hydraulics, and shop practices, as well as in engine operation and maintenance. You’ll also train in marine operations, the preventive maintenance of steering systems, and you’ll learn how to inspect and maintain the propellers and staffs.
As a Motor Transport Operator, you’ll play an important part of the Army’s transportation logistics team. You’ll supervise and operate wheeled vehicles over all types of terrain to safely transport cargo, troops, and provide advanced mobility on all missions. You’ll manage loading, unloading, and report any vehicle problems or damage.
As a Transportation Management Coordinator, you'll plan and schedule transportation for troops, cargo, and equipment worldwide. You will document and inventory freight shipments, prepare cargo for travel, and coordinate transportation for Soldiers and other personnel.
As a Railway Operations Crewmember, you'll supervise and operate the Army’s sophisticated diesel-electric locomotives that move vital supplies and equipment. You’ll train to perform car coupling and uncoupling operations, to send and receive signals, execute orders from signal towers, switches, and other personnel, and to assure the safe hauling of cargo.
MECHANICS
As an M-1 Abrams Tank System Maintainer, you’ll perform maintenance on the suspension, steering, hydraulic, auxiliary power, fire suppression, and gas systems of Abrams tanks.
As a Wheeled Vehicle Mechanic, you’ll supervise and perform maintenance, repair, and recovery operations on wheeled vehicles and select armored vehicles that serve the Army in a variety of mission-critical roles. You’ll inspect, service, maintain, repair, replace, adjust, and test wheeled vehicles, material handling equipment systems, subsystems and components, and automotive electrical systems, including wiring harnesses and starting and charging systems.
As a Utilities Equipment Repairer, you’ll supervise and perform maintenance on vital utilities equipment and support systems, such as air conditioners and refrigeration units, to make sure they are kept in top working condition in any environment. You’ll train to read temperature and pressure gauges, make operating adjustments to utility equipment, test for leaks, perform preventative maintenance, troubleshoot malfunctions, and read and use technical manuals and diagnostic instruments.
As a Tactical Power Generation Specialist, you’ll supply the power needed to run virtually every aspect of Army activity; power that must be available whenever and wherever the Army needs it. You will supervise and perform maintenance and repairs on power-generation equipment, internal combustion engines, and associated equipment in mobile and stationary power plants. You’ll train to use high-tech test and diagnostic equipment, read complex wiring schematics and diagrams, and repair electrical components.
As an Allied Trade Specialist, you’ll supervise and perform the fabrication, repair, and modification of metallic and nonmetallic parts to ensure the Army’s equipment is operating reliably. You’ll operate lathes, drilling presses, grinders, welding machines, and other machine shop equipment. You will train to select the materials, tools, and equipment to do the job, and learn how to operate fabrication machines.
As an Artillery Mechanic, you’ll supervise and gain the skills needed to perform maintenance and recovery operations on all self-propelled field artillery cannon weapon systems, including automotive, turret, fire control, and chemical protection subsystems. You’ll learn the proper methods to check the hydraulics system, maintain and repair the power drive, the weapons systems, and the computers. You will also learn to identify, use, and maintain a wide range of tools to get the job done.
As a Track Vehicle Repairer, you’ll perform maintenance on tracked vehicles and supervise activities that include fuel and electrical system repair and maintenance.
As a Quartermaster and Chemical Equipment Repairer, you’ll use the latest technology to supervise or diagnose, disassemble, and perform repairs on chemical equipment, quartermaster machinery, forced-air heaters, and special-purpose equipment to ensure that they are ready to support our troops.
As a Construction Equipment Repairer, you'll keep the Army’s engineer equipment safe and operational by repairing and maintaining trucks, bulldozers, power shovels, and other heavy equipment that is needed for construction. You'll replace and perform tune-ups on brakes, motors, engines, drive pumps, water pumps, transmissions, and high-pressure hydraulic systems.
As a Bradley Fighting Vehicle System Maintainer, you’ll have the challenging task of performing repairs and maintenance exclusively on the range of Bradley fighting vehicles, including anti-aircraft and armored tanks. You’ll fix and maintain the fire controls for mounted artillery, and troubleshoot any problems with suspension, steering, and controls.
As a Stryker Systems Maintainer, you’ll work as part of a team to maintain the Stryker vehicles and keep the vehicles and the operating systems running smoothly. You’ll diagnose and troubleshoot malfunctions, and repair and replace components using advanced test equipment, precision hand tools, and technical manuals and diagrams.
As a Fire Control Repairer, you’ll do maintenance and repairs on combat vehicles, infantry, and artillery fire control systems and equipment, and you’ll diagnose and troubleshoot any equipment malfunctions.
FIELD ARTILLERY
As a Cannon Crewmember, you’ll play a vital role in helping the Army win during missions. You’ll work with Howitzers, some of the most technologically advanced weapons systems ever created, to support infantry and tank units. You’ll learn how to handle ammunition, operate these weapons systems, and calculate targets.
As a Joint Fire Support Specialist, you’ll gather intelligence and enemy target location to help the Army determine where and how to deploy artillery in mission-based situations. You’ll set up and operate communications systems, encode and decode messages, assist in the preparation of fire support plans, coordinate and target, operate laser range finders and target devices, and determine the target’s location using computers or manual calculations.
As a Fire Control Specialist, you’ll use strategic skills to coordinate and integrate weapons operations. You’ll process and relay tactical battlefield information to a network of joint fires in support of mission-based operations. You’ll integrate information from multiple users and sensors through the Army and other service networks, and you’ll operate computer and database systems.
As a Multiple Launch Rocket System Crewmember, you’ll have the crucial job of maintaining and operating the entire multiple launch rocket system, launching various missiles and ammunition in quick strikes during missions to ensure battlefield success. You’ll support infantry and tank units while supplementing cannon artillery units.
As a Field Artillery Firefinder Radar Operator, you’ll have the vital task of detecting enemy forces with speed and accuracy using a highly specialized radar called a Firefinder, and alerting field artillery units to this critical targeting information.
AIR DEFENSE ARTILLERY
As a Patriot Fire Control Enhanced Operator / Maintainer, you’ll be responsible for operating and maintaining the five major parts of the Patriot Fire Control system. You’ll act quickly and with precision to identify, track, and engage those identified threats using one of the world’s most advanced interceptor missile systems capable of destroying enemy air threats at a moment’s notice.
As an Air Defense Battle Management System Operator, you’ll use specialized skills to sustain air space superiority and protect against aerial and missile attacks by providing critical situational awareness, threat detection, and early warnings from airspace. Spotting an incoming threat in advance can be a crucial advantage in protecting ground forces and provide overall ease for many soldiers. Additionally, you’ll learn to evaluate intelligence data, maintain and troubleshoot systems, and establish connectivity to air defense networks.
As an Air Defense Enhanced Early Warning Systems Operator, you’ll have the vital task of evaluating and communicating data about incoming enemy aerial and missile attacks and aerial surveillance. You’ll maintain computer data links and networks that provide early detection and tracking of possible air threats from the earth’s surface to space, giving units situational awareness and data needed to enable threat engagement and destruction and sustain air space superiority.
As an Air and Missile Defense Crewmember, you’ll be a member of the Army’s air defense artillery team and you’ll have the important task of operating and maintaining three of the Army’s surface-to-air advanced weapons systems, which provide vital mobile, short-range air defense protection against cruise missiles and other threats. You’ll reload and resupply these weapons systems, and use them to track, identify, and destroy enemy threats.
SOLDIER SUPPORT
As a Paralegal Specialist, you’ll be an integral part of the U.S. Army’s legal system. You’ll be expected to provide legal and administrative support in all areas of criminal law, family law, international law, civil and administrative law, contract law, and fiscal law. You’ll assist judges, Army lawyers, and unit commanders with legal matters and judicial work.
As a Financial Management Technician, you'll be responsible for the efficient and effective financial management for the Army’s most important asset—the Soldiers. You’ll be responsible for budgeting, disbursing, and accounting for government funds and treasury checks, maintaining and preparing files and financial reports, reviewing contracts and invoices, and making sure all financial matters are met so the Army keeps running.
As a Human Resources Specialist, you’ll play a crucial role assisting your fellow Soldiers progress in their Army careers, providing promotion and future training information. You’ll ensure the necessary support is also provided to commanders across all branches. You’ll be trained in document preparation, drafting requests, and overseeing official documentation, such as ID cards and tags. You’ll also learn computer programs that keep personnel data up to date.
As a Musician, you’ll uphold a time-honored tradition of entertaining our Soldiers, performing in a variety of ensembles, and serving as a musical ambassador of our nation. A musician in the Army is an opportunity to work for the largest employer of musicians in the world. Whether it's a ceremonial performance or a concert to boost the morale of Soldiers, U.S. Army Bands members have the opportunity to serve their country while making music. In order to qualify for this honor, you must demonstrate a high level of proficiency and versatility on your instrument and pass auditions.
As a Special Band Musician, you'll perform in the U.S. Army Band, U.S. Army Field Band, U.S. Military Academy Band, or the 3rd Infantry (The Old Guard) Fife and Drum Corps. You'll also plan in or lead bands, orchestras, combos, and jazz groups, and perform in street parades, concerts, and more.
As an Army Public Affairs Mass Communication Specialist, you’ll supervise and assist administration of Army public affairs programs by researching, preparing, and distributing news releases, articles, web-based material, and photographs on Army personnel and activities. You’ll gather information within your unit and around the Army, you’ll develop ideas for news articles, arrange and conduct interviews, write news releases, feature articles and editorials, and conduct media training.
As a Religious Affairs Specialist, you’ll have the rewarding responsibility of supporting the unit ministry team, programs, and worship services, while also providing support to the Chaplains during missions and everyday activities. You’ll assist in planning and synchronizing religious support operations and coordinating the circulation of the unit ministry team to ensure the Soldiers’ spiritual readiness. You’ll also maintain reports, files, and administrative data for religious operations, and conduct specialized peer counseling for Soldiers in need of emotional support.
ORDINANCE
As an Automated Logistical Specialist, similar to a laborer or freight mover, you’ll perform maintenance management and warehouse functions in order to maintain equipment records. You’ll oversee incoming supplies and equipment, simplify and standardize maintenance data, and raise the quality and accuracy of performance, cost, and parts data through improved maintenance management.
As a Petroleum Supply Specialist, you’ll supply the Army with the fuel it needs to maintain a state of readiness at all times. You’ll supervise and manage the reception, storage, and shipping of bulk or packaged petroleum-based products. You’ll oversee its use, dispense it to various vehicles and aircraft, and make sure it is being transported and handled safely. You will learn how refueling systems and equipment are assembled sequentially, perform quality assurance, and you’ll supply and store fuel from a variety of sources.
As a Culinary Specialist, you’ll be in charge of preparing and serving large-scale meals comparable to any major restaurant so that Soldiers can sit down and enjoy a hot meal in between training or mission deployments. You’ll be responsible for the preparation and service of meals both in field and at home stations, as well as ordering, inspecting food supplies, and keeping the kitchen safe and sanitary.
As a Petroleum Laboratory Specialist, you'll supervise and conduct laboratory tests on petroleum, oil, and lubricant products to ensure fire prevention and safety control for our troops, to ensure they meet the Army’s requirements, and our Soldiers can depend on them. You’ll train to perform physical and chemical tests on turbine aviation fuels, diesels and motor gasolines, and kerosene-based and diesel fuels in the field. Additionally, safety and fire prevention will be a daily form of life while working this job.
As a Mortuary Affairs Specialist, you'll draw upon specialized medical training and the upmost respect and compassion to handle the remains and personal effects of soldiers who have fallen in the line of duty. This includes locating and identifying remains in the field, ensuring safe transport of the deceased and their belongings, and assisting with arrangements and military honors at their burial site. You will also inventory and safeguard effects and serve as a specialist at the U.S. Army’s Central Identification Laboratory in Hawaii.
As a Parachute Rigger, you’ll ensure the safety of every paratrooper you work with. You’ll inspect, test, and pack parachutes, their extraction and release systems, and all the associated components of the parachute system. You’ll be responsible for the safety and repair of all parachute equipment before, during, and after an airdrop operation. You’ll be responsible for assembling rigging components and securing all the supplies in the aircraft.
As a Shower & Laundry Specialist, you’ll be responsible for establishing and performing personnel laundry and shower operations.
As a Water Treatment Specialist, you'll be responsible for supervising and installing water purification equipment and making sure clean water is stored and available anywhere it is needed. You will perform water quality tests and inspect facilities and food supplies for the presence of disease, germs, and other conditions or hazards to health and the environment.
As the Unit Supply Specialist, you’ll be responsible for supervising and maintaining all Army supplies and equipment. You’ll receive, inspect, inventory, load and unload, store, issue, and deliver all supplies and equipment. You’ll also safely secure and control weapons and ammunition in security areas.
As a Land Combat Electronic Missile System Repairer, you’ll use advanced electronic skills to perform maintenance on a variety of missile systems and determine shortcomings and malfunctions in electronic, electrical, mechanical, and circuit elements. The use of highly mobile missile launchers gives the Army a powerful edge in the field, so it’ll be vital that you keep these powerful weapons systems in top fighting shape.
As an Air Traffic Control Equipment Repairer, you’ll help ensure flight safety, keeping our pilots safe by maintaining and installing air traffic control communications, navigation aids, and landing systems. You’ll test instruments, navigational controls, and simulators using electronic and electrical test equipment, replace equipment parts, and perform quality control measures.
As a Computer / Detection Systems Repairer, you’ll repair the most advanced computer systems to ensure they’re in top operating condition, keeping equipment functioning, and making sure the Army is never at a disadvantage. You’ll repair everything from electromechanical telecommunications equipment to field artillery digital devices, from Global Positioning System receivers to night vision devices and equipment, and even laser and fiber optic systems.
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Test, Measurement, and Diagnostic Equipment
(TMDE) Maintenance Support Specialist
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As a Test Measurement and Diagnostic Equipment Maintenance Support Specialist, you'll maintain the Army's precision instruments, keeping them in top working condition and ensuring they are always accurate. You’ll calibrate and repair test equipment, and you'll adjust and synchronize watches, clocks, and timers. You’ll learn electronic theory, how to read schematics, indirect and alternating current, and resistance and circuit analysis.
As a Radar Repairer, you'll maintain and repair essential on-the-ground surveillance radar equipment, one of the most sophisticated and decisive pieces of technology. You’ll inspect, test, and adjust system components and equipment used to detect enemy artillery and mortar rounds for proper defense.
As a Multiple Launch Rocket System Repairer, you’ll be an essential member of the Army’s weapons maintenance team, performing maintenance on various rocket systems, keeping hydraulics, mechanical, launcher drive, and electrical systems repaired. You’ll perform maintenance on the Multiple Launch Rocket System, High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, and the self-propelled launcher-loader.
As an Avionic and Survivability Equipment Repairer, you’ll be an essential member of the Army communications maintenance team. You’ll perform field and sustainment level maintenance on avionic navigation flight control systems, stabilization systems, and equipment.
As a Patriot System Repairer, you’ll become one of the most highly trained Soldiers in the world. You’ll use your advanced skills to perform field-level maintenance on one of the world’s most advanced missile systems called Patriot, which features a phased array radar set and control station. You will perform tests and make repairs on specific components based on diagnostics.
As a Short Range Air Defense System Repairer, you’ll be one of the most highly trained technically and tactically proficient Soldiers in the world. You’ll supervise and perform maintenance and repair on the Army’s sophisticated short range air defense weapons systems. You’ll play a vital role in the defense of a nation, servicing, maintaining, and repairing the Avenger system, a complex and highly mobile weapons system used to secure battlefield air space and protect ground forces.