Serves as a supervisor or as a member of a mortar squad, section, or platoon.
Perform duties shown in preceding level of skill. Leads mortar or infantry weapons platoon; assist in planning (to include fire planning), organizing, directing, supervising, training, coordinating and reporting activities of subordinate mortar sections and squads; provide tactical and technical guidance to subordinates and professional support to subordinates and superiors in the accomplishment of their duties; supervise occupation of an assembly area; employ NBC defensive team; plans for, supervises preparation of, and conducts NBC operations; perform battle damage assessment; develop a platoon training plan; conduct graphic resection and hasty surveys; serve as principal noncommissioned officer in an infantry battalion or higher to supervise the processing of operations and intelligence information in an Infantry brigade or higher level unit; provide tactical and technical guidance to subordinates and professional support to both subordinates and superiors in accomplishment of their duties; plans, coordinates and supervises activities pertaining to organization, training and combat operations; edits and prepares tactical plans and training material; coordinate implementation of operations, training programs and communications activities; serves as the principle advisor to the Commander (Battalion and higher level unit) on all enlisted issues and is primarily focused on the training, maintaining, caring, and leading of the unit's Soldiers, facilities and equipment; assists the Commander in the implementation of command policies and establishes and enforces standards related to the appearance and conduct of all Soldiers within the command; develops and executes NCO Professional Development Programs within the command and advises/counsels Soldiers on issues related to training, education, and professional development; responsible for the unit's individual skills training program for all CMF's (Battalion and higher level unit).
Employs, fires and recovers anti-personnel and anti-tank mines; perform self extraction from a mine field; locates and neutralizes mines; navigate from one point on the ground to another; orients a map; operates and maintains communications equipment and operates in a radio net; operate in a NBC contaminated area; emplace and recover early warning devises; constructs and camouflages individual/crew served weapons firing position; constructs and camouflages a mortar firing position; maintain mortars and fire control equipment; perform safety checks on mortars; perform as a member of a mortar squad providing indirect fire support; leads and controls mortar squads; supervises and trains subordinate personnel; provide tactical and technical guidance to subordinates and professional support to subordinates and superiors in the accomplishment of their duties; supervise the construction of mortar positions; record operational information on maps; receives and implements combat orders; directs deployment of personnel in offensive, defensive, and retrograde operations; requests, observes, and adjusts indirect supporting fire; supervise subordinate personnel in all phases of individual and mortar equipment maintenance; uses map and map overlays, performs intersection and resection, and determines elevations and grid azimuth; prepare fire plans, target lists and overlays; prepares and computes firing data using below pivot point and grid method; reciprocally lay mortars; prepare mortar ballistic computer for operation; lead a mortar section; provide tactical and technical guidance to subordinates and professional support to both subordinates and superiors in the accomplishment of their duties; receives and issues orders; coordinate indirect fire support for the mortar; ensure collection and proper reporting of intelligence data to unit; supervise a firing section and various work details; analyze terrain; conduct tactical operations for a squad and NBC operations; maintain operational security; prepares, operates, and maintains secure communications equipment; reciprocally lay mortars; consolidates and re organizes a mortar squad; supervise fire direction center personnel.
Serve as principal noncommissioned officer in an infantry battalion or higher to supervise the processing of operations and intelligence information in an Infantry brigade or higher level unit; provide tactical and technical guidance to subordinates and professional support to both subordinates and superiors in accomplishment of their duties; plans, coordinates and supervises activities pertaining to organization, training and combat operations; edits and prepares tactical plans and training material; coordinate implementation of operations, training programs and communications activities; serves as the principle advisor to the Commander (Battalion and higher level unit) on all enlisted issues and is primarily focused on the training, maintaining, caring, and leading of the unit's Soldiers, facilities and equipment; assists the Commander in the implementation of command policies and establishes and enforces standards related to the appearance and conduct of all Soldiers within the command; develops and executes NCO Professional Development Programs within the command and advises/counsels Soldiers on issues related to training, education, and professional development; responsible for the unit's individual skills training program for all CMF's (Battalion and higher level unit); provides advice and makes recommendations to the commander and staff on all matters pertaining to enlisted soldiers and their families; accompanies the commander on inspections, visits and ceremonies; assists in inspection of command activities, facilities and personnel as prescribed by the commander; ensures adherence to command policies; holds First Sergeants' or Sergeants' Major call to announce information and instruction; ensures that newly assigned enlisted personnel are instructed in military courtesy, customs of the service and command regulations or policies; responsible for monitoring training or conducts training of enlisted soldiers; assesses training at all levels and provides feedback to appropriate commanders and leaders; provides counsel and guidance to NCOs and other enlisted soldiers of the command; responsible for and provides guidance on Non-Commissioned Officer Education System (NCOES) and Non-Commissioned Officer Development Program (NCODP); inspects duties performed by subordinate NCOs; notes discrepancies and initiates appropriate corrective action; assists in reception of visitors to the command; serves as president or member of command promotion board or removal board for NCOs, as authorized by regulations; sits as chairperson or member of a command's Military Member of the Quarter/Year competition for enlisted soldiers or NCOs, as directed by local regulations; responsible for quality, control and training of noncommissioned officer evaluation reports (NCOER) while ensuring timely submissions; reviews evaluation reports to determine compliance with policies and procedures and recommends corrective actions on deficiencies to commanders, other leaders and rating officials; performs other duties prescribed by the commander; assists in the professional development of junior and company grade officers.