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Huntington, West Virginia, United States

Fort Sill, Oklahoma, United States

Duties:Typical Duties include leading a five-man team in a M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) platoon, with a worldwide contingency mission; supervise fire direction operations, communications setup and maintenance; orchestrate fire mission processing, fire support planning, fire support execution, movement control and entry of commander’s guidance; perform troubleshooting of Advanced Field Artillery Tactical Data System (AFATDS) hardware, software, database, and communications to ensure continuity between Fire Direction Center (FDC) and HIMARS computer systemsAccomplishments:• Oversaw the performance, training, and accountability of five Soldiers and organizational maintenance on section equipment valued at over $500,000• Improved all firing capabilities within the platoon, despite not having a platoon sergeant for almost a year• As a Specialist, hand selected by the Battery Commander and First Sergeant to serve as Battery Armorer, a position usually held by a Sergeant or Staff Sergeant• As Armorer maintained and accounted for over $300,000 worth of serialized equipment and improved every facet of arms room operation

Oak Park, Michigan, United States

Duties:Typical Duties include leading a four-man crew in landscaping and soft scape construction. Day to day operations consist of a variety of planting and maintenance tasks including sod laying, shrub trimming, planting, watering, weeding, fertilizing, and mulching in such a manner as to maintain high customer satisfaction. Assisted in building hardscapes, including stone/brick walkways and patios, retaining walls, and fences. Extensive experience operating front loaders, backhoes, and skid steers.Accomplishments:• Functioned in the role of crew leader/supervisor for multiple teams.• Oversaw $200,000.00 jobs quoted for 70 man-hours completed in half the time without reducing quality.

Twentynine Palms, California, United States

Duties:Typical duties in primary MOS as a Motor Transport Operator (3531) include operating and maintaining tactical military and commercial motor vehicles. Day to day operations consist of transporting resources, Marines, equipment, and supplies in support of completing the overall mission of the unit. As for my secondary MOS as a Combat Marksmanship Trainer(CMT)(0931) daily duties consist of training the marksmanship coaches under my command how to analyze deficiencies of shooters and how to correct them. Additionally, was placed in charge of instructing a series of courses that train shooters how to conduct their training with proper safety procedures. Lastly, as a CMT one of your most important duties is running/ controlling live fire ranges.Accomplishments:• Monitored, collected, and accounted for over $2.1 million worth of serialized weapons and optics while acting as the Weapons Non-Commissioned Officer for a battalion sized unit for over 1,000 personnel in order to maintain unit readiness.• Conducted pre-firing inspections on all the battalion’s crew-served weapon systems, enabling force protection during missions operating in some of the most kinetic regions of Afghanistan.• Created 27 separate periods of instruction on machine gun employment and operation, significantly improving the combat readiness and proficiency of all primary and secondary machine gunners, resulting in 70 Marines assessed as experts consistent with the infantry training and readiness manual.