Job Description:

• 1) Tests pneumatic tires and tubes, bulletproof gasoline tanks, caterpillar tracks, and similar equipment to determine that they meet minimum specifications for use on military vehicles: Mounts ordinary pneumatic or bulletproof tires and tubes on tire-testing machines or on appropriate vehicles.

• 2) Inflates tires to prescribed pressure and manipulates controls to operate machines and simulate driving conditions, or drives vehicles, observing indicators and noting tire conditions.

• 3) Directs other workers in firing specified number of bullets into tires at specified places and in taking photographs of test results.

• 4) Fills and weighs bulletproof gasoline tanks and directs other workers in firing bullets through tanks.

• 5) Weighs pierced tanks to determine extent of gasoline loss.

• 6) Mounts military tank tracks on special testing machines and manipulates controls to test tracks under induced conditions.

• 7) Observes results and notes instrument readings.

• 8) Prepares reports indicating results of wear or bullet holes on material tested.

• 9) Interprets test results, using charts and tables.