JOB DUTIES

• Perform maintenance on tactical utility, precise power-generation sets, internal combustion engines and associated equipment
  
   

Those who want to serve must first take the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery, a series of tests that helps you better understand your strengths and identify which Army jobs are best for you.

Job training for a tactical power generation specialist requires 10 weeks of Basic Combat Training and 10 weeks of Advanced Individual Training with on-the-job instructions. Part of this time is spent in the classroom and part in the field, including practice in maintaining electrical power systems.



Some of the skills you’ll learn are:

• Generator and power plant operations


• Electrical generation and distribution


• Diesel generator operation, disassembly, inspection and maintenance


• Principles of electrical and electronic circuitry