
Ordnance Corps is the Army’s tactical and technical munitions specialists.
Ordnance (OD) The largest branch that develops, produces, acquires, and supports the Army’s weapon systems, ammunition, missiles, and wheeled and tracked vehicles. Ordnance officers are responsible for ensuring that weapons systems, vehicles, and equipment are ready and available, at a moment's notice. They also manage the developing, testing, fielding, handling, storage and disposal of munitions. Specialties are Tank/Automotive, Missile/Electronics, and Munitions material management as well as Explosive Ordinance Disposal (EOD).
Skills/Characteristics:
Maintenance and Munitions Management Officers (91A) are adaptive, agile, logical, and detail-oriented leaders that are directly responsible for building and maintaining the combat power of the Army. They enable readiness through dynamic and articulate leadership with the ability to establish priorities of work to accomplish the mission. Leadership in material maintenance and ammunition management processes requires officers who use logic and analytical skills to solve problems and communicate solutions precisely. These officers must be support-focused, skilled at building relationships, and able to connect with others in a direct way so they can advise commanders and customers on sustainment operations in complex operating environments. The Maintenance and Munitions Management Officers Intelligences include Interpersonal and Logical-Mathematical. The Talent Priorities include: Interdisciplinary; Innovative; Interpersonal; Logical-Analytical; and Communicator. Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Officers (89E) are the culmination of the best tactical and technical training the Department of Defense can provide. As the Army's preeminent tactical and technical explosives specialists, EOD officers need to operate confidently with detailed and disciplined accuracy under stressful conditions, be mentally tough, work calmly under pressure, and be prudent risk takers. They provide dynamic leadership to formations of expertly trained EOD Soldiers. Explosive ordnance disposal officers must be effective communicators with an extreme aptitude for planning and organizing in support of Army units worldwide, civil authorities in CONUS, and across all operational environments. EOD officers are “hands-on” Soldiers with technical and mechanical inclination, acute sensitivity to visual details, and the ability to orient to three dimensions. The Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Officers Intelligences include Bodily-Kinesthetic and Spatial. The Talent Priorities include: Detail Focused; Mentally Tough; Prudent Risk Taker; Bodily-Kinesthetic; and Process Disciplined.