Cooper (270) Enlisted Personnel

Builds and repairs barrels, buckets, casks, and kegs used in the packing, storing, or shipment of supplies and equipment.
Plugs holes with wood. Repairs leaking stave joints by loosening hoops and forcing flagging between staves, using various hand tools. Replaces broken or cracked staves by loosening hoops, shaping end of inserted stave to fit head of barrel, and tightening hoops. Replaces defective barrel heads of hoops.