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13R Field Artillery (FA) Weapons Locating Radar (WLR) Specialist

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Overview

A Field Artillery Weapons Locating Radar Specialist tactically employs heavy and light radars to track surface to surface munitions, report their point of origin, and predict their point of impact. The specialist provides early warning and target information for counterfire operations, identifies hostile land based indirect fire weapons, and supports calibration and registration for friendly indirect fire systems.

Minimum clearance: Secret

Minimum ASVAB: GT 87

ASVAB policy: Not policy-reviewed · coverage unknown · as of 2026-10-19

Program scope has not been reviewed.

Policy applicability and coverage of the program's score routes have not been reviewed. Shown-route arithmetic is not an eligibility decision.

Source: smartbook-611-21-ch10c-fy2025 (source date 2025-12). Policy applicability has not been established.

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Core Skills

  • Munition origin reporting and impact prediction
  • Indirect-fire calibration and registration support
  • Early warning and counterfire target reporting

Civilian Career Paths

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Remote Sensing Technicians

Tracking munitions by radar and reporting their origins and predicted impacts transfers to collecting and interpreting remotely sensed location data.

How to prepare: Complete a GIS and remote-sensing course with an ESRI ArcGIS project that checks sensor-data accuracy and integrates observations with other geospatial data.

What the civilian work involves
  • Collect geospatial data, using technologies such as aerial photography, light and radio wave detection systems, digital satellites, or thermal energy systems.
  • Verify integrity and accuracy of data contained in remote sensing image analysis systems.
  • Integrate remotely sensed data with other geospatial data.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • ESRI ArcGIS software

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (2 documents)
  1. Army COOL MOC feed: 13R Field Artillery (FA) Weapons Locating Radar (WLR) Specialist

    [1] data/authority/army-codes.json entry 13R (OSD COOL feed, fetched 2026-07-25); DB rank enlisted, authority codeType enlisted

    Supports: Munition origin reporting and impact prediction, Indirect-fire calibration and registration support, Early warning and counterfire target reporting, Remote Sensing Technicians (O*NET 19-4099.03)

  2. O*NET: Remote Sensing Technicians

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Remote Sensing Technicians (O*NET 19-4099.03)

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