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745 - RIFLEMAN

Loads, aims, and fires a rifle, and employs hand grenades and bayonet to destroy enemy personnel and to assist advance against an enemy position.

May operate a flame thrower. May perform supervisory duties incident to the control, coordination, and tactical employment of a fire team or one or more squads. Must be capable of field stripping, assembling, and performing minor maintenance of weapon. Must have general familiarity with the fundamentals of infantry tactics.

Should be proficient in the use of such hand weapons as rifle, automatic rifle, carbine, pistol, rocket launcher, rifle grenade, hand grenade, flame thrower, and bayonet. Should be proficient in the techniques of hand-to-hand combat.

601 - HEAVY ANTIAIRCRAFT GUN CREWMAN

Performs one or more duties incident to the loading, aiming, firing, and minor maintenance of a heavy antiaircraft gun such as the 90mm, or aboard ship, such guns as the 5"/38 cal. or 5"/25 cal.

May perform supervisory duties incident to the control, coordination, and tactical employment of one or more heavy antiaircraft guns and their crew members. Must be capable of performing all of the duties in the gun crew.

606 - ANTIAIRCRAFT MACHINE GUN CREWMAN

As a member of a machine gun crew, loads, aims, fires, and maintains an antiaircraft machine gun such as the .50 cal. or the 20mm.

May perform supervisory duties incident to the control, coordination, and tactical employment of one or more antiaircraft machine guns and their crew members. Must be capable of field stripping, assembling, reducing all ordinary stoppages of, and performing minor maintenance on weapon. Must be capable of making rapid and accurate range estimation, and must be able to determine the speed of moving targets.

603 - FIELD ARTILLERY CREWMAN

Performs one or more duties incident to the loading, aiming, firing, and minor maintenance of an artillery piece, such as the 75mm, 105mm, or 155 mm howitzer used as field artillery.

May perform supervisory duties incident to the control, coordination, and tactical employment of one or more howitzers and their crew members. Must be capable of performing all of the duties in the howitzer crew.

864 - LIGHT ANTIAIRCRAFT GUN CREWMAN

Performs one or more duties incident to the loading, aiming, firing, and minor maintenance of a light antiaircraft gun such as the 40mm.

May perform supervisory duties incident to the control, coordination, and tactical employment of one or more light antiaircraft guns and their crew members. Must be capable of performing all of the basic duties in the gun crew.

611 - AERIAL GUNNER

Loads, aims, and fires free or flexible machine guns in an airplane at aerial and ground targets; adjusts sights and corrects fire by tracer control.

Must be able to identify friendly and enemy aircraft. Must pass flight physical examination.

911 - ARMORER, AIRCRAFT

Inspects, repairs, and maintains such aviation ordnance equipment as machine guns, aerial cannon, bomb release mechanisms, flare racks, and gunsights.

Loads ammunition belts; arms bombs, rockets, torpedoes, and mines, and installs them on racks. May repair small arms. May install and boresight gun cameras. Must be thoroughly familiar with armament inspection and maintenance procedure and with safety regulations pertaining to the handling and storage of explosives.

607 - MORTAR CREWMAN

Sets up, aims, fires, cleans, and maintains a 60mm or 81mm mortar.

May perform supervisory duties incident to the control, coordination, and tactical employment of one or more mortars and their crew members. Must be capable of mounting and dismounting mortar and performing minor maintenance on weapon. Must be able to estimate range and deflection rapidly and accurately and to use firing table. Must be thoroughly familiar with sight employed and with the techniques of seating and sight setting.

Should be proficient in the use of hand weapons, such as rifle, automatic rifle, carbine, pistol, bayonet, and hand grenade. Should be proficient in the techniques of hand-to-hand combat.

761 - SCOUT-SNIPER

An especially trained Rifleman (SSN 745) who engages in scouting and patroling activities to obtain information concerning strength, disposition, and probable intentions of enemy forces; disrupts enemy communications; destroys enemy personnel by rifle fire.

May perform supervisory duties involving the control, coordination, and tactical employment of other Scout-Snipers. Must possess all of the qualifications of SSN 745. Must be particularly skilled in employing the principles of camouflage to conceal himself. Must know how to move over various kinds of terrain without being detected. Must be skilled in the use of the rifle, with and without telescope sight.

Must know techniques of searching terrain for signs of enemy activity. Must be able to read maps, make sketches, and use compass and field glass.

736 - TANK CREWMAN

As a crew member of a tank team, performs various duties such as driving, radio tending, weapons firing and maintenance, and tank inspection and minor maintenance.

May operate, recharge, and perform minor maintenance on tank-carried flame throwers. May perform supervisory duties incident to the control, coordination, and tactical employment of one or more tanks and their crew members. May operate a tank dozer. Must be capable of performing all of the duties in the tank crew.

Should have sufficient knowledge of tactical employment of tanks to be able to anticipate commands, to take advantage of cover, and to maneuver to bear on targets.

505 - AMMUNITION TECHNICIAN

Performs various supervisory and technical tasks incident to the procurement, storage, distribution, handling, transportation, and care of all types of munitions used by ground forces, including explosives and pyrotechnics.

May salvage or destroy unserviceable munitions. Must be thoroughly familiar with small arms and artillery ammunition, grenades, and mines. Must know uses, hazards and safety precautions, and methods of handling, cleaning, storing, and otherwise processing munitions. Must know ordnance ammunition identification code system. Must have general familiarity with publications containing information on munitions.

511 - SMALL ARMS MECHANIC

Cleans, oils, services, and repairs small arms such as rifles, pistols, mortars, machine guns and flame throwers.

Checks weapons for malfunctioning. Disassembles weapons, and repairs or replaces worn or damaged parts. Lubricates, machines, grinds, and makes precision adjustments of all parts to obtain required clearance and tolerances. Tests repaired weapons by simulated or actual firing. Must be capable of making all types of repairs to small arms, including fabrication of simple replacement parts with hand tools.

924 - BOMB DISPOSAL TECHNICIAN

Disposes of unexploded bombs, projectiles, and mines by excavating, disarming, removing, or detonating them.

Must be thoroughly familiar with explosives, projectiles, bombs, mines, booby traps, and fuzes of friendly and enemy manufacture. Must have a knowledge of the maintenance and use of excavating, rigging, and bomb disposal equipment.