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2311 Ammunition Technician

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Overview

An Ammunition Technician receives, stores, issues, and handles ammunition. The technician also handles toxic chemicals as part of ammunition field operations.

Minimum clearance: Secret

Minimum ASVAB: GT 100

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: navmc-1200-1l-fy26 (source date 2025-03). Policy applicability has not been established.

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Core Skills

  • Ammunition receipt, storage, and issue
  • Handling ammunition and toxic chemicals

Civilian Career Paths

Career associations are editorial assessments of the cited evidence, not an official crosswalk unless the evidence explicitly says so. O*NET supplies civilian occupation information, not proof of a military match. Related experience does not confer civilian qualifications. Tasks and tools below describe civilian work, not military training.

Stockers and Order Fillers

Military experience receiving, storing, and issuing ammunition transfers directly to receiving stock and distributing materials.

How to prepare: Prepare a work-history summary showing your documented receipt, storage, and issue responsibilities for materials-distribution openings.

What the civilian work involves
  • Complete order receipts.
  • Issue or distribute materials, products, parts, and supplies to customers or coworkers, based on information from incoming requisitions.
  • Stock shelves, racks, cases, bins, and tables with new or transferred merchandise.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Microsoft Excel

Explosives Workers, Ordnance Handling Experts, and Blasters

Ammunition receipt, storage, issue, and handling provide a specific foundation for the ordnance-handling side of this occupation.

How to prepare: Ask a prospective employer to assess your existing qualifications and documented ammunition-handling experience against the intended role and applicable state or local requirements, distinguishing ordnance handling from blasting work. For construction blasting, OSHA requires communication ability, physical fitness, explosives knowledge, familiarity with applicable laws, and satisfactory evidence of safe, method-specific blasting competency.

What the civilian work involves
  • Place safety cones around blast areas to alert other workers of danger zones, and signal workers as necessary to ensure that they clear blast sites prior to explosions.

Notes & Sources

  • For employment under an ATF explosives license or permit, newly hired employees authorized to possess explosives must be reported by the license or permit holder and may undergo an ATF background check; the employer's business license is distinct from individual employment.
Evidence for this guidance (5 documents)
  1. NAVMC 1200.1L (FY26, in force): MOS 2311

    [1] MOS 2311 section "a. Summary"; cached text line 35533; NAVMC 1200.1L signed 2025-03-07, in force until 2026-10-01

    Supports: Ammunition receipt, storage, and issue, Handling ammunition and toxic chemicals, Stockers and Order Fillers (O*NET 53-7065.00), Explosives Workers, Ordnance Handling Experts, and Blasters (O*NET 47-5032.00)

    [3]NAVMC 1200.1L MOS 2311: Related SOC titles · MOS 2311 section "e. Related Standard Occupational Classification"

    Supports: Explosives Workers, Ordnance Handling Experts, and Blasters (O*NET 47-5032.00)

  2. O*NET: Stockers and Order Fillers

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Stockers and Order Fillers (O*NET 53-7065.00)

  3. O*NET: Explosives Workers, Ordnance Handling Experts, and Blasters

    [4] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Explosives Workers, Ordnance Handling Experts, and Blasters (O*NET 47-5032.00)

  4. OSHA 29 CFR 1926.901: Blaster qualifications

    [5] Construction blasting, paragraphs (a)-(e). Verified 2026-09-24.

    Supports: Explosives Workers, Ordnance Handling Experts, and Blasters (O*NET 47-5032.00)

  5. ATF explosives licensing and employee-possessor reporting requirements

    [6] 27 CFR 555.41(b)(1)(i)-(iii) and 555.57(b)-(c), official 2026-09-21 XML snapshots retained. Individual employment and the employer business license are distinct.

    Supports: Explosives Workers, Ordnance Handling Experts, and Blasters (O*NET 47-5032.00)

Defense contractor jobs for 2311

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