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Question by Crabbysabby: What should I know beforhand to do in school for gunners mate in the navy?
When I finish bootcamp and still up in the great lakes for my job training I want to be top of my class.. Not Just working with small arms but more or less VLS with the vertical launch missals. If I decide to make a career out of the navy I want to be top of my class and pretty much just a know it all about everything.. If anybody in the military wants to give some input before hand on things I should try to learn would greatly appreciate it!


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Answer by BoatsBM1
GM-Gunner’s Mate

What They Do

The duties performed by GMs include:
• Operating and maintaining guided missile
launching systems, torpedo launching/handling 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, blueprints, schematics and circuit diagrams;
• repairing, maintaining, testing and calibrating ordnance equipment;
• repairing, maintaining, testing and calibrating micro processing equipment;
• use and care for common hand tools, special tools and soldering equipment;
• perform preventive and corrective maintenance on hydraulic and pneumatic systems and components associated with launching systems;
• interpret color coding to determine values of capacitors and resistors, and tracing internal connections of power and audio transformers, chassis wiring and multi-conductor cables;
• operating and maintaining night optical devices;
• operating optical scanning and marking devices to label, identify and report explosives’ utilization/expenditure;
• serve as team member performing inspections and final closeout checks on weapons;
• install and remove torpedo exploder mechanisms.

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