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Gunner's Mates are responsible for the operation and maintenance of guided missile
launching systems, gun mounts and other ordnance equipment, as well as small arms
and magazines. They work with electrical and electronic circuitry; mechanical, hydraulic
and pneumatic systems.

What They Do:

The duties performed by Gunner's Mates include: operating and maintaining guided
missile launching systems, rocket launchers, gun mounts and other ordnance systems
and equipment; training and supervising crews in the use of all types of ordnance
equipment, from large caliber guns and missile systems to small arms; stowing,
securing, requisitioning and reclassifying explosives: operating and maintaining
magazine flooding and sprinkling systems; making mechanical, electrical and
electronic casualty analysis using technical publications, circuit diagrams and
blueprints; repairing, maintaining, testing and calibrating ordnance equipment;
servicing hydraulic and pneumatic systems; repairing, maintaining, testing and
calibrating microprocessing equipment; repairing damaged hydraulic sealing surfaces,
mating areas and threads; performing mechanical wire connections including
soldering; operating and maintaining night optical devices; operating optical scanning
and marking devices to label, identify and report explosives' utilization/expenditure.

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