Fire Controlman

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Fire Controlman rating insignia
Fire Controlman rating insignia

Fire Controlman (abbreviated as FC) is a United States Navy occupational rating.

Fire Controlmen provide system employment recommendations; perform organizational and intermediate maintenance on digital computer equipment, subsystems, and systems; operate and maintain combat and weapons direction systems, surface-to-air and surface-to-surface missile systems, and gun fire control systems at the organizational and intermediate level; inspect, test, align, and repair micro/minicomputers and associated peripheral equipment, data conversion units, data display equipment, data link terminal equipment, print devices, and system related equipment; make analyses for detailed systems, computer programs, electronics, and electronic casualty control; and operate associated built-in and external test equipment; load, initialize, and run preprogrammed diagnostic, performance and testing routines for digital computer equipment, digital subsystems, digital systems, and overall combat systems. [1]

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  1. ^ Navy enlisted manpower and personnel classifications. Bureau of Naval Personnel. US Navy. Retrieved on January 11, 2007.

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