Duty Soldier I (522) Enlisted Personnel

This is a broad classification covering enlisted men who perform various nontactical and nontechnical duties requiring only a moderate degree of responsibility and skill and involving no specialized training or experience.
Representative duties included in this classification are guarding or patrolling a military installation; patrolling pipe lines to prevent sabotage and to repair small leaks, measuring and recording amounts of petroleum products in storage tanks; making minor repairs to, and folding and packing target plane parachutes.
This classification and specification serial number will be assigned enlisted men who perform such duties regularly.

Alternate nomenclatures:

  • Gauger, Petroleum Products
  • Guard-Patrolman
  • Patrolman, Pipe-Line
  • Airplane Target Parachute Packer