![]() Serves as an intern level equipment operator with basic level training on interpreting basic grade stakes, interpreting basic construction prints, identifying basic soil properties and performing basic surveying clears, grubs, strips, excavates, backfills, constructs ditches, stockpiles and pushes scraper with crawler tractor excavates and spreads fill material with a motorized scraper excavates, stockpiles, backfills, and loads haul units with scoop loader scarifies, spreads, levels and constructs V ditches with a motorized grader excavates, stockpiles, backfills, constructs ditches and loads haul units with a hydraulic excavator excavates, stockpiles, backfills, constructs ditches, and loads haul units with a backhoe loader drives, spreads, and dumps material with a dump truck drives, loads, and sprays water utilizing a water distributor compacts material utilizing a sheep's foot roller, smooth drum roller, and a vibratory roller operates air compressor and tools in support of horizontal construction projects transports heavy construction equipment utilizing a tractor trailer serve as a Horizontal Construction Sergeant with limited supervision of construction equipment and personnel activities primary operator for all finishing work and complex operating situations on horizontal construction projects provides guidance to less experienced equipment operators on operating techniques, procedures, and operator maintenance serves as a Horizontal Construction Supervisor, Section Sergeant, supervises activities related to the utilization of heavy construction and lifting equipment in support of construction operations while at home station or on deployment estimate equipment and operator requirements to assist in the development of resource requests and network flow diagrams assists in the supervision of construction equipment operations organizes and directs mobility and counter mobility missions. My buddy went there for their ALC course.Operate heavy equipment, construction projects obstacle emplacement, and counter-obstacle operations involving construction equipment. There are other places you can go to reclass, I'm not sure how they are. Even your fellow students can teach you a thing or two. Your prior service experience will help in certain ways but if you weren't the equivalent MOS in the Marines, just know how to lock it up and soak up as much information as you can. In the barracks they came through every morning to check that we kept it to standard but after the first week it was more of a good morning see you in class, just checking that none of you are dead type deal. They did shoot the shit with me a little more than some other students, but they told me up front that for the most part rank didn't matter I'm a student like the junior enlisted. They break you up into groups and you spend like 3 days on each piece of equipment.Īs far as being prior service goes, maybe because I was one of three sergeants in the class and/or prior infantry they often deferred to me to make sure students kept they WWII style barracks in order and kept any issues to a minimum. The support cadre are also pretty good I'm still in contact with them.Īs for day to day, we works basically every day, and had a day or two off between phases. ![]() From the newest instructor to the branch chief, a MSG who brings a lot of real world military and civilian experience, they can answer basically any questions. It's a basic introduction to the machinery and they do a damned good job of it. They told us from the start their job isn't to make us proficient operators. The training itself isn't as long as its active duty counterpart, but only knowing mainly infantry tactics and nothing about engineering, I left that course confident in my abilities to at least understand the equipment they train you own. I went through the 140th RTI (Regimental Training Institute I believe it's called), a training unit from the Missouri National Guard. I was an 11C prior to and needed to reclass since I am now a reservist. SGT (Join to see) I went to Fort Leonard Wood to reclass to 12N in 2018.
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