Maintain and repair towed artillery systems including howitzers and field guns. Perform organizational and intermediate maintenance.
ASVAB GT: 95
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Towed Artillery Systems Technicians maintain the howitzers and associated equipment the artillery batteries depend on. Work is bench and field repair covering recoil systems, hydraulics, optics, and structural components. You perform inspections, gauging, and function testing to exacting standards. Maintenance cycles intensify around live-fire periods and deployments. Detailed records on every serialized weapon system are mandatory.
You learn precision measurement, gauging, hydraulics, and artillery system troubleshooting. Machining and metalworking exposure comes with the job along with strict tool control. The role teaches quality assurance and functional testing rather than assumption. You gain deep familiarity with weapons systems and their failure modes. Serialized accountability and documentation are trained to auditable standards.
The job builds patience and fine precision, since tolerances here are measured in thousandths. You develop strong safety discipline, because a weapon returned to service must be right. It teaches methodical diagnosis instead of parts swapping. Artillery technicians tend to become meticulous people who finish work properly. You also gain quiet confidence from being the person others rely on.
Precision machining, hydraulics, and heavy equipment repair are direct civilian parallels with solid pay. Defense contractors hire former technicians as field service representatives and depot maintainers supporting fielded systems. Firearms manufacturing and commercial gunsmithing value the armament background specifically. Industrial maintenance roles recruit for the hydraulics and precision measurement skills. Law enforcement agencies employ armorers to maintain department weapons, which is a stable niche.
You start in the artillery maintenance shop reviewing the status of the howitzers on the line. Your day is spent inspecting and repairing towed artillery systems, replacing hydraulic and mechanical parts, and running function checks on the guns. Much of the work is hands-on organizational and intermediate maintenance to keep the artillery mission-capable.
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Related field: ground ordnance maintenance. Source occupation: Marines 2171.
Lance Cpl. Johnathon B. Mata, an electro-optics ordnance repairer with Ordnance Maintenance Company, 3rd Maintenance Battalion, Combat Logistics Regiment 35, III Marine Expeditionary Force, speaks about his own Marine Corps experience in Okinawa, Japan, March 31, 2016. Mata, as an electro-optics ordnance repairer, has the responsibility to repair artillery, electrical optics and thermal sights to ensure equipment is always ready. Mata is a Mt. Pleasant, Mich., native.
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Maintain and repair towed artillery systems including howitzers and field guns. Perform organizational and intermediate maintenance.
Towed Artillery Systems Technicians maintain the howitzers and associated equipment the artillery batteries depend on. Work is bench and field repair covering recoil systems, hydraulics, optics, and structural components. You perform inspections, gauging, and function testing to exacting standards. Maintenance cycles intensify around live-fire periods and deployments. Detailed records on every serialized weapon system are mandatory.
You learn precision measurement, gauging, hydraulics, and artillery system troubleshooting. Machining and metalworking exposure comes with the job along with strict tool control. The role teaches quality assurance and functional testing rather than assumption. You gain deep familiarity with weapons systems and their failure modes. Serialized accountability and documentation are trained to auditable standards.
Precision machining, hydraulics, and heavy equipment repair are direct civilian parallels with solid pay. Defense contractors hire former technicians as field service representatives and depot maintainers supporting fielded systems. Firearms manufacturing and commercial gunsmithing value the armament background specifically. Industrial maintenance roles recruit for the hydraulics and precision measurement skills. Law enforcement agencies employ armorers to maintain department weapons, which is a stable niche.
ASVAB GT: 95. This is the catalog's listed requirement, not an individual eligibility decision. Confirm the current standard and any exceptions with the service.
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NAVMC 1200.1L, FY26 Military Occupational Specialties Manual (effective October 1, 2025), chapter 1 · reviewed 2026-09-26
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