13J Fire Control Specialist

National Guard; Gillette (WY); On-site; USD 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Tuition assistance

Paid training

Job summary

The National Guard seeks a Fire Control Specialist to integrate and process information from multiple users using the JOINT system and other automated systems in Army National Guard operations.

You will train to operate communications and primary tactical data systems, learn fire mission processing, and gain hands-on artillery knowledge during initial service training with supporting benefits.

Qualifications

• Operate communications systems
• Primary tactical data system operations
• Database management
• Fire mission processing

Responsibilities

• Operate communications systems
• Primary tactical data system operations
• Database management
• Fire mission processing

Skills

Target location calculations

Operating gun/missile/rocket systems

Artillery tactics

Tools

JOINT Automated Systems

Job description

JOINT Automated Systems are tools that help provide strategic coordination and situational awareness at the tactical levels of combat. As a Fire Control Specialist, your primary responsibility will be to integrate and process information from multiple users by utilizing the JOINT system and other automated systems used by the Army National Guard.

Job Duties

• Operate communications systems
• Primary tactical data system operations
• Database management
• Fire mission processing

Some of the Skills You’ll Learn

• Computing target locations
• Operating gun, missile, and rocket systems
• Artillery tactics

Helpful Skills

• Interest in cannon and rocket operations
• Physically and mentally fit to perform under pressure
• Ability to multitask
• Capable of working as a team member

Earn While You Learn

Instead of paying to learn these skills, get paid to train. In the Army National Guard, you will learn these valuable job skills while earning a regular paycheck and qualifying for tuition assistance.

Job training for a Fire Control Specialist requires 10 weeks of Basic Combat Training and seven weeks of Advanced Individual Training with on-the-job instructions. Part of this time is spent in the classroom and part in the field under simulated combat conditions.