Weapons Support - Gun Smith - Germany

Individual will work independently with little or no supervision and make key decisions when diagnosing, troubleshooting, and repairing a variety of Standard and NATO weapons at the -20, -30, and -40 levels of maintenance. The gunsmith duties include inspecting, repairing, and replacing bolts, stocks, barrels, pistol grips, bolt stock assemblies, barrel extensions, recoil buffers, upper receivers, feed trays, and drive rod assemblies. In addition to performing these major repairs, the gunsmith must also repair and replace tripods, bipods and mounts. The gunsmith’s work must be in compliance with current Technical Manual/Regulations. They must be able to interpret/extrapolate technical data, understanding the theory and functioning of the weapon in order to diagnose and repair weapons to a mission capable standard.

The Gunsmith must be Subject Matter Expert when instructing classes on the use of the weapon to include assembly, disassembly, care and maintenance, functioning, per...