21 career profiles
Army logistics careers move and account for supplies, equipment, transportation, food, fuel, and other resources required for missions.
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As a Military Police Soldier, you’ll protect peoples’ lives and property on Army installations by enforcing military laws and regulations. You’ll also control traffic, prevent crime, and respond to all emergencies. You’ll conduct force protection, anti-terrorism, area security, and police intelligence operations. You’ll also train in corrections and detention, investigations and mobility, and security around the world.
As a Corrections/Detention Specialist, you’ll be mainly responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations in a military correctional facility or detention facility. Additionally, you’ll offer counseling and guidance to individual prisoners within a rehabilitative program.
As a Military Working Dog Handler, you'll work with K-9 units and be responsible for training and caring for dogs, both at home and abroad, supporting missions and daily law enforcement. Military Working Dogs search for drugs or explosives and work with their human counterparts to neutralize threats in law enforcement operations.
As a Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Specialist, you’ll protect the country against the threat of CBRN weapons of mass destruction, and you’ll decontaminate hazardous material spills or accidents. You’ll employ the most advanced equipment and coordinate defense systems against these weapons of mass destruction in support of joint and combined arms operations.
As a Cargo Specialist, you'll be the cargo handling expert for everything the Army moves by land, sea, or air. You’ll ensure the Army receives supplies, weapons, the mail, and equipment on a daily basis all over the world. You will be trained in cargo documentation, the securing of cargo, and learn how to load and unload cargo manually or by operating material handling equipment like cranes and forklifts.
As a Watercraft Operator, you’ll be responsible for navigation, cargo operations, and supervising other Soldiers on Army watercraft. As part of the piloting team, you’ll train in the basics of seamanship and vessel operations, using electronic positioning systems, handheld navigation devices, and traditional watch standing procedures. You’ll learn boat handling techniques, how to dock and undock vessels, drop and weigh anchor, interpret code signal flags, and send and receive messages via radio, beacon, and signal flag. Since safety is such an important part of this job, you’ll also learn emergency water survival, how to operate lifeboats, shipboard firefighting, and other emergency procedures.
As a Watercraft Engineer, you’ll supervise or perform maintenance and repairs on Army watercraft and auxiliary equipment on marine vessels in order to keep them running at all times. You’ll perform daily systems checks, repair and maintain gasoline and diesel engines, troubleshoot and repair watercraft propulsion machinery, and repair and service lift machinery and engine-related electrical systems. To do this, you’ll train in basic electronics, hydraulics, and shop practices, as well as in engine operation and maintenance. You’ll also train in marine operations, the preventive maintenance of steering systems, and you’ll learn how to inspect and maintain the propellers and staffs.
Operates wheeled vehicles to transport personnel and cargo across varied terrain.
As a Transportation Management Coordinator, you'll plan and schedule transportation for troops, cargo, and equipment worldwide. You will document and inventory freight shipments, prepare cargo for travel, and determine the most efficient mode of transport and coordination for Soldiers and personnel to meet mission requirements.
As a Railway Specialist, you’ll oversee the Army’s rail network capabilities and infrastructure assessments to assist with safe handling of important cargo. This includes rail planning and properly managing host nation or contracted rail assets, along with car inspections at route stops and following instructions received from signal towers or other trains.
As an Ammunition Stock Control and Accounting Specialist, you’ll perform stock control and accounting duties for ammunition, explosives, and associated explosive components using hardware and software systems and manual records. You’ll perform the issue, receipt, shipment, turn-in and maintenance transfer of ammunition.
As an Ammunition Specialist, you’ll be responsible for the highly specialized care and management of ammunition, explosives, and their components. You’ll perform stock control and accounting duties, and you’ll be in charge of receiving, storing, issuing, and inspecting weapon systems to determine if they need repair or need to be destroyed. This means you’ll be in charge of blowing up expired or partially used explosives and other ordnance in controlled settings, a crucial part of keeping our troops safe.
Manages equipment records, parts requests, inventory, and warehouse operations.
As a Petroleum Supply Specialist, you’ll supply the Army with the fuel it needs to maintain a state of readiness at all times. You’ll supervise and manage the reception, storage, and shipping of bulk or packaged petroleum-based products. You’ll oversee its use, dispense it to various vehicles and aircraft, and make sure it is being transported and handled safely. You will learn how refueling systems and equipment are assembled sequentially, perform quality assurance, and you’ll supply and store fuel from a variety of sources.
As a Culinary Specialist, you’ll cook meals and work alongside chefs to prepare meals comparable to any major restaurant, so that Soldiers can sit down and enjoy a hot meal in between training or mission deployments. You’ll be responsible for preparing and servicing meals both in the field and at home stations, as well as ordering, inspecting food supplies, and keeping the kitchen safe and sanitary.
As a Petroleum Laboratory Specialist, you'll supervise and conduct laboratory tests on petroleum, oil, and lubricant products to ensure fire prevention and safety control for our troops, to ensure they meet the Army’s requirements, and our Soldiers can depend on them. You’ll train to perform physical and chemical tests on turbine aviation fuels, diesels and motor gasolines, and kerosene-based and diesel fuels in the field. Additionally, safety and fire prevention will be a daily form of life while working this job.
As a Mortuary Affairs Specialist, you'll draw upon specialized medical training and the utmost respect and compassion to handle the remains and personal effects of Soldiers who have fallen in the line of duty. This includes locating and identifying remains in the field, ensuring safe transport of the deceased and their belongings, and assisting with arrangements and military honors at their burial site. You'll also inventory and safeguard effects and serve as a specialist at the U.S. Army’s Central Identification Laboratory in Hawaii.
As a Parachute Rigger, you’ll ensure the safety of every paratrooper you work with. You’ll inspect, test, and pack parachutes, their extraction and release systems, and all the associated components of the parachute system. You’ll be responsible for the safety and repair of all parachute equipment before, during, and after an airdrop operation. You’ll be responsible for assembling rigging components and securing all the supplies in the aircraft.
As a Shower & Laundry Specialist, you’ll be responsible for establishing and performing personnel laundry and shower operations.
As a Water Treatment Specialist, you'll be responsible for supervising and installing water purification equipment and making sure clean water is stored and available anywhere it is needed. You will perform water quality tests and inspect facilities and food supplies for the presence of disease, germs, and other conditions or hazards to health and the environment.
Receives, inventories, stores, issues, and safeguards Army supplies and equipment.
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