THR civilian dream job?

[buzzcut]

The US Army has posted the following job listing available for US citizens:

"......application of training policies and the overall safe operation of the live fire ranges, training facilities and maneuver training lands. The Range and Training area covers 71 ranges, 32 mortar points, 3 urban operations facilities, 335,000 acreas of Maneuver Training Land, 2 assault landing strips, 14 parachute drop zones, restricted airspace, controlled firing areas, and one Joint service air to ground bombing range. Reviews and updates Range Safety Books; prepares artillery safety data. Presents range safety classes to officer and enlisted personnel, retired military and civilians to perform duties as Officer-in-Charge/Range Safety Officer (OIC/RSO) of firing ranges, training facilities and maneuver training areas........."

I'm a little under-qualified

 

[Ric]

I've seen too many things happen
I wouldn't be Range Control if you tripled the pay

 

[entropy]

Isn't that for the Naval gunnery training area in Puerto Rico? I'd be RO for one range, but not a whole dang AO or TO like this sounds like.

 

[Waitone]

I always thought the ideal job was the engineer at Sandia Labs who was researching nuclear material rail transportation containers. He gets to conduct head on train collisions and a variety of other kinds of mayhem.

 

[SAW753]

The Army just wants a lot of those jobs taken over by Civilians becuase it wants its own personal over in The Sandbox controling the ranges over here. They want this becuase its cheap to have their own personal over here then it is to pay a civilian to run a range over here. Also the RC will be used to help train local forces over here as well.

 

[HankB]

Gotta be careful about accepting government jobs like this . . . especially if you don't have AUTHORITY proportional to your RESPONSIBILITY. I've heard from a person in the know that they often are looking for a scapegoat . . .

 

[Kharn]

From what I've seen out at the firing ranges, this reads like a desk job where he's the guy that goes up the creek when someone gets killed. He's definitely not the guy calling "cease fire" at the local rifle range every 20 minutes.

Kharn

 

[buzzcut]

The job title is "safety technician". After reading the description, the title seems a little bit "understated". LOL

Buzz

 

[BerettaNut92]

How does one practice muzzle control with a Mortar?

 

[scout26]

How

does one practice muzzle control with a Mortar?

Don't walk in front of it or look down the tube.


IIRC, part of the process for getting a 4.2" (aka four-deuce) mortar to fire when a round had lodged in the tube, involved banging on the tube with a shovel.....


Nope, this is a no-win thankless job. You will get blamed for everything. Commanders will blame you when they wait until the last minute to schedule ranges and then can't get any, and then entire unit weapons quals go out of date and their USR numbers go in the toilet and they get a bad OER.
Any issue/problem/injury/fatality and you'll be filling out tons of paperwork.


Nope, BTDT, I'll pass.