Careers

Career Description

Anybody can work on cars, but few have the skills and attention to detail needed to work on multimillion-dollar military vehicles. As a Vehicle and Vehicular Equipment Maintenance specialist, you'll be trained to work on everything from snow blowers and dump trucks to forklifts and aircraft towing vehicles. Whether it's a gas or diesel engine, a transmission, drive train or even an air conditioning system, your expertise will be vital to not only repairing problems, but also to prevent them as well.

Career Tasks

• Inspect, troubleshoot and repair vehicles such as dump trucks, bucket loaders, crawler and wheeled tractors, cranes, motor graders, snow removal equipment, sweepers, aircraft cargo loading vehicles, forklifts, aircraft towing vehicles and aircraft servicing vehicles
• Work on vehicle systems that include gasoline/diesel engines; electrical starting and charging systems; transmissions; drive trains to include tracks, brakes, steering, and suspension systems; heating and air conditioning systems; and emission controls

Relevant Interests & Skills

• Electronics
• Motor Vehicles
• Motor Vehicles
• Shop Mechanics

Training

After eight-and-a-half weeks of Basic Military Training, every Airman goes to technical training to learn their career. Here's the basic information about Vehicle and Vehicular Equipment Maintenance technical training:

School location: Port Hueneme [CA]

Length of course: 33 days

College degree earned: Transportation

College credits earned: 11