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Enlisted US Navy Gunners Mate Specialist A Popular Military Career

November 3, 2008 By admin

The position of enlisted Navy Gunners mate is one that requires skill and manual dexterity. Some of the different jobs that a Gunners Mate performs include; servicing and maintenance of weapons systems, and different targeting weapons equipment, maintaining sprinkler and safety emergency flooding systems for gun and ammunition storage areas. It is a rating that has a long and proud history in the Navy, and in several of the Navy?s sister services.

Can You Work With Your Hands?

You have to be able to deal with and use tools successfully. Navy gunners mates are personnel that are responsible for the operation and maintenance of rifles, handguns, missile and rocket systems, and other types of weapons and ammunition. If you are good with working with your hands, and enjoy working with different types of weapons, you may be a success at the Navy Gunners Mate enlisted specialty. You will work to supply, requisition, secure, stowing, and providing different ordinance, weapons and ammunition to Navy personnel upon direction, and firing and maintaining weapons of all different types. It is a vital and responsible job that is necessary for the operation and effective success of the Navy.

As a gunners mate you will be responsible for all different types of weapons, as well as being required on occasion to fashion or machine new items to perform a specific job task or to fix a weapons system. Gunner?s mates are jack-of-all-trades that deals with all types of weapons and equipment that are weapons and weapons system related.

Navy Gunners mates are experts in how to properly use and maintain the weapons that are used in the Navy. You will work with different equipment and tools, on weapons magazines, weapons, handguns, small arms of all types, gun mounts, large caliber guns and even certain types of guided missiles and weapons. Some of the different things that you are responsible for include a variety of weapons systems, and you will work to deal with personnel throughout the Navy. After basic training you will attend Class A school advanced training to become a Gunners mate, and then you will be assigned to a duty station.

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A person who serves as a Navy gunners mate must have normal hearing and depth perception and normal hearing, and the ability to qualify for a SECRET level military security clearance. As a new qualified Gunners mate you will continue to train under older more experienced gunners mate as you continue to learn and grow in the Gunners Mate position.

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  1. RAB323 says

    September 16, 2009 at 9:36 pm

    I was wondering if gunners mate are deployed to Iraq.

  2. Steven says

    May 4, 2011 at 11:32 am

    yes, Gunnersmates are needed everyhere. from every kind of ship to bases all over the world. I signed up about a month ago and my deployment is November 22 after Gunnersmate A school ill do a tour on ship and afterward will most likely end up stationed overseas if the “war” isnt over yet.

  3. joseph says

    February 8, 2012 at 6:58 pm

    i wondering, when working as a gunners mate, whats the possibility of being stationed on just a land base? if you score the right score on the ASVAB and get the score for the gunners mate, would go straight to the gunners mate school?

  4. GMSN Coy USN says

    March 9, 2012 at 12:50 am

    I’m a Gunners Mate in the United Sates navy and you will most likely be stationed on a ship. I’ll tell you this being on a ship is where a Gunners Mate belongs. If that’s not what you want your in the wrong place. We can get shore duty on our first command but you will need to get MSRON or Riverine orders from A’ School. These are rare and only come up ever so often. You can be selected for IA (individual Augmente) orders from your ship to Iraq or Afghanistan.

  5. Debbie Barton says

    March 11, 2012 at 6:19 pm

    My daughter is going to be a gunners mate and will finish A School in February – is it different for a woman as a gunners mate as to where she will be cruiser, destroyer, or base?

  6. Johnathan Loposser says

    May 2, 2012 at 8:52 am

    I found the information very usefull seeing that I am a futur sailor who ships out this june 06/21/2012 and the job I was assigned was gunners mate.

  7. marshall stewart says

    August 28, 2012 at 7:31 pm

    Will you get to stay a gunners mate through you whole time in the navy.. i.e. as if you had to reenlist, the navy wont send you to do something thats not related to weapons systems?

  8. harold williams says

    November 2, 2012 at 2:52 am

    my gunners mate chief[merle provost] on de-1043 & [gmg 2] squirell craver taught me all it took to be a gunners mate,what a wonderful job shipmates, to announce that mount 51 is manned & ready,

  9. Laura Zorza says

    November 29, 2012 at 6:45 pm

    I am Gunnersmate Chief Petty Officer and have served for 20-yrs and just reenlisted. “Normally” a GM will be stationed on board a ship once finished with A-School. Some are fortunate enough to attend C-School before reporting to the ship. I have served shipboard, with a MSRON, SPECWAR and at a NOSC. Women serve just about everywhere males serve with a few exceptions (i.e, PC’s, Frigates).

  10. Dan says

    January 4, 2013 at 6:37 pm

    I am rejoining Navy as a reservist and I need to change rates and I might select GM rate. Any ideas how it works for a reservist? When I do my AT will I be assigned to a ship as well?

  11. Mariel Vazquez says

    February 19, 2013 at 7:04 pm

    How long is a gunners mate service commitment? I’m thinking about enlisting next year and this seems pretty interesting and cool I’m trying to get as much information as possible.

  12. Aaron Kelley says

    April 8, 2013 at 1:59 pm

    I’m going to be leaving for the Navy Boot Camp in september to be a gunners mate GM. I’m really excited cant wait to go. I was wondering is there any more schooling besides A’ School? and how being a GM is all around? as well as the job environment? and how the schooling is?

  13. GMM2 Nestor says

    June 17, 2013 at 11:32 pm

    Being a Gunner’s Mate (Missiles- in those days)1987-1991 was AWESOME! it was the best thing I ever did with my life! I was able to see the world, learn how to fix and work on about any and everything from servos, synchros, hydraulics, pneumatics, small arms all the way up to the MK 10 MOD 13 Guided Missles Launcher– the best parts of it were– 1. you got to blow shit up! 2. see the world 3. know that YOU were the reason the ship was out there to begin with!!! GUNNERS MATE- DEATH & DESTRUCTION! But seriously– knowing after my training that I can handle ANYTHING that life puts at me— pressure? what pressure? civilians have no idea what pressure is until they offload live missiles in the Bering sea while it’s blowing 50. Anchors Away!

  14. GM2(SCW) Dean says

    July 23, 2013 at 8:41 am

    I am Currently a Gunnersmate and can tell you that its one of the best jobs you can have in the Navy not just because of what you do but because every command whether on ship or shore has an armory and every armory needs GM’s. I have been in for three years and have been to many places and for the future GM’s dont just think that a ship is the only place for you there are many diffrent commands to be a part of and you are joing one of the most vertile rates in the Navy. So stand tall and walk proud shipmates.

  15. ronald says

    November 18, 2013 at 10:50 pm

    hello good day, I want to inquire how to enroll I really want to join the navy and become a GM. I just came from philippines, I have a permanent resident card. Thanks.

  16. Mrs. Gunner Doyle says

    March 27, 2014 at 7:16 am

    My husband has been a Gunner for 25 years, cwo3 .. He loves his job .. Most of his time has been deployed on 7 or 9 month deployments on carriers.. This last 7 month deployment for us will be in japan with the new p8s .. He has always been a fighter gunner before the new p8

    Good luck everyone GO NAVY

  17. Mrs. Gunner Doyle says

    March 27, 2014 at 7:19 am

    Oh I forgot to add something you all need to know IYAOYAS MRS. Gunner Doyle

  18. GM Rushton says

    April 30, 2014 at 4:46 pm

    How do you get shore duty?

  19. andrew glover says

    May 8, 2014 at 9:43 pm

    i am going to be a gunners mate after high schol and i was wondering what skills do u get from working with these types of wepons?

  20. Joe says

    August 1, 2014 at 3:41 pm

    What are the chances of gunners mate being open? I really want this rating.

  21. newMilSO says

    August 21, 2014 at 3:35 pm

    Do GM’s die a lot? That’s an awful question but my fianc

  22. GMG1 RYAN RET says

    July 13, 2015 at 5:56 pm

    TO ME THE ONLY RATE TO BE IS GM. I WAS ONE FROM 1972-JUNE OF 93 AND I WOULD NOT CHANGE MY RATE FOR ANY THING.MOST OF THE GUNS I WORKED ON ARE NO LONGER IN THE FLEET{3″50 & 5″38} ALSO WHILE I WAS IN THERE WERE GMG, GMM, AND GMT. I GOT TO WORK AS A RANGE MASTER I LITTLE CREEK VA, AND A ARMORER IN THE SEEBEES . I ENJOYED EVERY BIT OF AND EVEN AFTER 21 YEARS RET I STILL MISS IT. SO FOR THOSE OF YOU THINKING OF BEING GUNNERSMATES GOOD LUCK TO YOU ALL

  23. CLIFF says

    July 14, 2015 at 11:02 am

    GM IS A RATING THAT WE TAHE GREAT PRIDE IN IT IS ONE OF THE IF NOT THE HARDEST WORKING RATES ON BOARD AND WE TOOK GREAT PRIDE IN THAT WE WOULD TAKE A QUICK BREAK FOR CHOW, ON CG-49 WE WERE ALLOWED TO EAT IN OUR GREEN COVRALLS WE WOULD COME TO CHOW COVERED IN GREASE AND PD-40AND WE LOVED IT IF YOU ARE GOING TO BE GUNNERSMATE YOU CAN DAMN WELL BE SURE YOU WILL PROUD OF WHAT YOU ARE DOING THEY CALLED US FRESH-AIR SNIPES AND OR BOATSWAIN MATES WITH A HUNTING LICENSE DIVERSE RATE AS A GM YOU EARN THE RIGHT TO WALK WITH THAT SWAGGER.

  24. Shari says

    August 12, 2015 at 8:54 pm

    My son-in-law has joined the Navy as a GM and says he will be going straight to his job as an apprentice instead of going to A school. Would he advance quicker if he had gone to A school?

  25. KMcAvoy says

    December 3, 2015 at 9:00 am

    im a senior in high school and im very interested in being a gunners mate. I have a friend who went through core man A school and he kind of inspired me to be in the navy. I did a little research in being a gunners mate, and with being a eagle scout will I advance any faster if I did an apprenticeship or go through a A school or C school?

  26. Daniel J Lawler says

    October 23, 2017 at 9:59 am

    Hello all, I am looking for Gunners Mates that have extensive knowledge of US Navy 5″/38 DP guns. I’m only looking for the men that actually worked on them as in repairs. I would very much like to speak with you if possible regarding disassembly and trouble shooting. My problem is unique so I would need someone that knows exactly how to disassemble and troubleshoot. If any of you gentlem have this experience I would very much like to talk with you. Thank You, and Thank You for your service to this great Nation.
    Dan J.Lawler

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