Handbook of Occupational Groups and Families		Classification Programs Division
Release Date:  August 2001		Section Fifty-five of Sixty-six

    6600 - ARMAMENT WORK FAMILY   

This job family includes occupations involved in the installation, repair, rebuilding, adjustment, modification, and testing of small arms and artillery weapons and allied accessories. Artillery includes, but is not limited to, field artillery, antitank artillery, anti-aircraft weapons, aircraft and shipboard weapons, recoilless rifles, rocket launchers, mortars, cannons, and allied accessories. Small arms includes, but is not limited to, rifles, carbines, pistols, revolvers, helmets, body armor, shoulder-type rocket launchers, machine guns, and automatic rifles.

Throughout the following information, an asterisk (*) stands for series with a published standard and a double asterisk (**) stands for series with a published flysheet.

Occupations in this family are:

6605 Artillery Repairing*

This occupation includes jobs involved in repairing, rebuilding, and modifying mounted, towed, motorized, or shipboard artillery. This includes work on major components such as gun tubes, mounts, turrets, and carriages. This work requires detailed knowledge of mechanical, and a practical working knowledge of hydraulic, electrical, and pneumatic systems; the ability to recognize improper operation, locate the cause, and determine the best methods for correcting defects; and the skill to fit and adjust parts and assemblies.

6606 Artillery Testing

This occupation includes jobs involved in testing of guns such as light field artillery, 20-mm air cannons, tank guns, and small caliber guns used for testing armor plate, by emplacing, loading, and firing guns to determine mechanical characteristics and ballistic properties. Also included is the testing of heavy guns and howitzers, such as field guns from 105-mm to 240-mm howitzers, anti-aircraft guns from 90-mm to 120-mm, and tank mounts from 90-mm to 105-mm.

6610 Small Arms Repairing*

This occupation includes jobs involved in repairing, rebuilding, and modifying small arms that includes such weapons as machine guns, mortars, rocket launchers, recoilless rifles, and portable flame throwers. The work requires a knowledge of weapons mechanical systems, the ability to recognize and determine the best method to correct malfunctions, and the skill to fit and adjust mechanical parts and assemblies.

6641 Ordnance Equipment Mechanic*

This occupation includes jobs involved in maintaining and overhauling major items and assemblies of ordnance systems and equipment. The work requires the knowledge and application of mechanical and electrical principles and the skill to perform intricate repair and adjustment of hydraulic and pneumatic components and devices. The work also requires skill in such processes as troubleshooting, repairing, modifying, rebuilding, assembling, testing, and installing a variety of equipment such as missiles, torpedoes, mines, depth charges, and associated testing equipment and transporting, handling, erecting, and launching devices.

6652 Aircraft Ordnance Systems Mechanic*

This occupation includes jobs involved in troubleshooting, repair, installation, modification, and operational and functional testing and adjustment of aircraft ordnance systems and components. These systems and components involve electrical, mechanical, pneumatic, and hydraulic principles of operation; for example, ejection seats, decoys, canopies, module ejection equipment, pylons, and pressure regulators. The work requires a knowledge of aircraft ordnance systems, the ability to recognize and determine the best method to correct malfunctions, and the ability to use test equipment and measuring devices common to the occupation.

6656 Special Weapons Systems Mechanic

This occupation includes jobs that involve examining, disassembling, repairing, modifying, assembling, calibrating, and testing various types of advanced weapons systems and components; reconditioning and repairing weapon skin sections such as airframes and fins; and maintaining special handling equipment and containers. Weapon components include such items as motor generators, hydrostats, differential switches, accelerometer gauges, control boxes, fusing components, batteries, radar, etc. The work requires knowledge of pneumatic, hydraulic, mechanical, electrical, and electronic systems and circuitry, and of radioactive, explosive, electrical, and other hazards unique to advanced weapons.