PICATINNY ARSENAL, N.J. (July 16, 2015) -- Four U.S. Army civilian employees, representing a variety of Army commands and organizations of Career Program 33 (Ammunition Management) field, recently completed four weeks of developmental training assignment with the U.S. Army Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center (ARDEC).
The employees were Scott Wohlenhaus, Headquarters, Army Material Command, Redstone Arsenal, Alabama; Roy Hale, U.S. Army Europe, (Seventh Army), Grafenwohr, Germany; Robin Jett, Career Program 33, Career Program Officer, McAlester, Oklahoma; and Zola Parker, National Training Center, Fort Irwin, California.
They came from very different avenues of the Ammunition Management field, but all agreed that their recent training at Picatinny Arsenal was second to none.
"Among the best training," said Roy Hale. "A total 360 degrees view of the R&D (research and development), manufacturing of ammunition and getting the ammunition to the front."
Hale's job is to provide live and training ammunition of all calibers to the US. Army Europe, as well as NATO and partner-nation forces.
"I would recommend this developmental training to the 19 ammunition CP 33 government employees in USAREUR and the 100 local nationals as wage grades," Hale said.
Parker was interested in the recycling of ammunition cans.
"Redo the recycling cans and upgrades to Ammunition Supply Point," were two priority projects she took away from her training.
Career Program 33 career progression involves visiting ammunition manufacturing plants, ammunition supply points, and ammunition depots or headquarters staffs.
Training at Picatinny included exposure to Explosive Ordnance Disposal robots, various ARDEC labs, the Program Executive Office for Ammunition, and Project Manager Soldier Weapons, along with demonstrations in 3-D printing.
That is training that they would not receive in traditional CP 33 career development.
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The Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center is part of the U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command, which has the mission to develop technology and engineering solutions for America's Soldiers.
RDECOM is a major subordinate command of the U.S. Army Materiel Command. AMC is the Army's premier provider of materiel readiness -- technology, acquisition support, materiel development, logistics power projection, and sustainment -- to the total force, across the spectrum of joint military operations. If a Soldier shoots it, drives it, flies it, wears it, eats it or communicates with it, AMC provides it.
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