Aviation Ordnance

Every Marine serves a vital role for our Nation’s most essential missions. Marines each develop skills according to our Military Occupational Specialties (MOSs), becoming experts in our respective fields. Together, Marines represent expertise in more than 300 different disciplines to become a diversely talented, unwavering force.

AVIATION ORDNANCE (Occupational Field 65)

It is your responsibility to make sure the complex weapons systems aboard today’s sophisticated aircraft are deadly accurate

You will learn subjects such as:

• Theory of operation of USMC airborne weapons and aircraft weapon systems

• Assembly/Disassembly of USMC airborne weapons

• Troubleshooting and repair of aircraft weapon systems

• Gunsight alignment

• Principles of electrical and hydraulic systems

• Aircraft loading in expeditionary environments