Multiple Launch Rocket System Operator/Maintainer

“You'll operate HIMARS — the M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System that became the most talked-about conventional weapon on earth during the Ukraine conflict. HIMARS can put precision-guided rockets on targets at 50+ miles with GPS accuracy, from a platform that can drive off a C-17 and be firing within minutes. The system is in active global demand and you'll be an operator on it. Defense contractors supporting HIMARS international sales and training are a consistent post-service destination for 13P veterans.”

You operate the M270 or M142 HIMARS, which are genuinely impressive weapons that can reach out and ruin someone's day from distances that make field artillery jealous. The MLRS mission is real, the firepower is real, and for those moments, the job is everything the recruiter said. Then there's garrison. PMCS on rocket systems is thorough, time-consuming, and conducted with the seriousness of equipment that costs $5 million per launcher and fires rockets that cost $100,000 each. Your SFC treats every PMCS like the vehicle will be inspected by the Secretary of Defense, because once it was, and nobody has emotionally recovered. The system is digital and the fire control is sophisticated — you're not just pulling a trigger, you're executing a fire mission through a series of computed solutions. Your hearing protection goes in before the tube opens and stays in until significantly after. In the current threat environment, MLRS units are getting a lot of attention from senior leaders who suddenly remember what long-range fires are for. That attention is a double-edged thing.