A professional who operates and controls smoke or flame and support equipment, such as self-propelled flamethrowers, smoke generators, and radio equipment, to provide smokescreen or flame support for military forces during combat or training. Respnsibilities include:

• Observes terrain and weather conditions to determine location for smoke generators and smoke munitions.
• Starts smoke generator to form smokescreen.
• Observes smokescreen to ensure proper screening without interference to mission of adjacent friendly units.
• Adjusts smoke generators as needed to obtain optimum quality and quantity of screening smoke.
• Assists in loading flamethrower and on-vehicle weapons.
• Moves firing controls and fire control instruments to operate and fire vehicular mounted weapons and self-propelled flamethrowers.
• Moves driver controls to start, stop, and steer self-propelled flamethrower vehicles.
• Receives and stores on-vehicle materials, such as rations, fuel, and ammunition.
• Confers with squad or unit personnel to report observance of targets or other combat information, using visual signal, radio or telephone, in conformance with terminology and security procedures.
• Performs preventive maintenance and repairs on equipment and weapons, such as flamethrowers, radio equipment, and smoke generators.