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WEPS Weapons

Current service use not established

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A Coast Guard officer specialty, not an enlisted rating.

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Overview

A Weapons Chief Warrant Officer serves as a gunnery and ordnance repair officer and directs the assembly, installation, operation, testing, maintenance, and repair of ordnance equipment. The officer supervises ammunition testing, handling, stowage, preservation, requisitioning, issuing, and accounting, as well as the stowage, preservation, security, requisitioning, and accounting of ordnance equipment and repair parts.

Core Skills

  • Technical guidance on armament maintenance
  • Weapons qualification standards expertise
  • Force protection program expertise

Civilian Career Paths

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Electrical and Electronic Engineering Technologists and Technicians

Armament maintenance expertise provides a foundation for equipment maintenance work, with additional electronics training needed to pursue this broader technical field.

How to prepare: Take a hands-on electronics course covering circuit fundamentals, schematic reading, and diagnostic test equipment, then compare your demonstrated skills with equipment-maintenance openings.

What the civilian work involves
  • Modify, maintain, or repair electronics equipment or systems to ensure proper functioning.
  • Set up and operate specialized or standard test equipment to diagnose, test, or analyze the performance of electronic components, assemblies, or systems.
  • Identify and resolve equipment malfunctions, working with manufacturers or field representatives as necessary to procure replacement parts.

Training & Development

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Getting Started

  • Associate Electronics Technician (CETa)

    Build foundational electronics knowledge for the technician path; the credential is designed for technicians with less than two years of electronics experience or training.

    For: Electrical and Electronic Engineering Technologists and Technicians

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (3 documents)
  1. USCG authority snapshot: WEPS Weapons

    [1] data/authority/coast_guard-codes.json entry WEPS (COOL USCG MOC Feed (uscg.json) + COOL Feed (uscg.json) + CG COOL Website); fetched 2026-07-25

    Supports: Technical guidance on armament maintenance, Weapons qualification standards expertise, Force protection program expertise, Electrical and Electronic Engineering Technologists and Technicians (O*NET 17-3023.00)

  2. O*NET: Electrical and Electronic Engineering Technologists and Technicians

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Electrical and Electronic Engineering Technologists and Technicians (O*NET 17-3023.00)

  3. COOL credential mapping: Associate Electronics Technician (CETa)

    [3] WEPS cached COOL credential feed

    Supports: Associate Electronics Technician (CETa)

    [4]ETA International: Associate Certified Electronics Technician · CETa description and CETa Exam Info; retrieved 2026-09-23

    Supports: Associate Electronics Technician (CETa)

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