Artillery and Missile Crew Members Career, Salary and Skills

No national wage record is published for this occupation in the current BLS dataset.

Occupation description

Target, fire, and maintain weapons used to destroy enemy positions, aircraft, and vessels. Field artillery crew members predominantly use guns, cannons, and howitzers in ground combat operations, while air defense artillery crew members predominantly use missiles and rockets. Naval artillery crew members predominantly use torpedoes and missiles launched from a ship or submarine. Duties include testing, inspecting, and storing ammunition, missiles, and torpedoes; conducting preventive and routine maintenance on weapons and related equipment; establishing and maintaining radio and wire communications; and operating weapons targeting, firing, and launch computer systems.

O*NET code

55-3014.00

Job zone

Not recorded

Typical education

Not recorded

Experience

Not recorded

National salary and employment

Salary data is not available for this occupation in the current BLS dataset.

Career and skills data: O*NET 31.0 (onetcenter.org). Figures are published survey estimates, not real-time market data.