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Ammunition specialist resume examples for 2025

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Updated March 26, 2025
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How to write an ammunition specialist resume

Craft a resume summary statement

A well-written resume summary is basically an elevator pitch. You are summing up your skills and experience in a few sentences to wow recruiters, hiring managers, and decision makers into giving you an interview. Here are some tips to putting your best foot first with your resume summary:

Step 1: Start with your professional title, or the one you aspire to.

Step 2: Detail your years of experience in ammunition specialist-related roles and your industry experience.

Step 3: What are your biggest professional wins? Here is your opportunity to highlight your strongest accomplishments by placing them at the start of your resume.

Step 4: Don't forget, your goal is to summarize your experience. Keep it short and sweet, so it's easy for recruiters to quickly understand why you're a great hire.

These four steps should give you a strong elevator pitch and land you some ammunition specialist interviews.

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List the right project manager skills

Your Skills section is a place to list all relevant skills and abilities. Here is how to make the most of your skills section and make sure you have the right keywords:

  1. Look at the job listing and skills listed. You need to include the exact keywords from the job description to get your resume in front of an actual human. Do you have those skills? Fantastic! Be sure to list them.
  2. Include as many relevant hard or technical ammunition specialist skills as possible for each job you apply to.
  3. Be specific with the skills you have and be sure you are using the most up to date and accurate terms.
These five steps should give you a strong elevator pitch and land you some ammunition specialist interviews.

Here are example skills to include in your “Area of Expertise” on an ammunition specialist resume:

  • Demolition
  • Manual Procedures
  • MOS
  • Weapon Systems
  • Ammunition
  • Conventional Ammunition
  • Safety Precautions
  • Maintenance Modification
  • Hazardous Materials
  • Combat
  • Safety Standards
  • Technical Guidance
  • US Army
  • Ammo
  • Explosive Components
  • General Support
  • DOD
  • Technical Aspects
  • Hazmat
  • Secret Security Clearance
  • NCO
  • Pallet Jack
  • Inventory Control
  • PLS
  • Safety Regulations
  • PowerPoint
  • Army Regulations
  • AHA
  • Firefighting
  • Physical Fitness

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How to structure your work experience

Next you should include your work experience. Structure your work experience section by listing your most recent experience first, followed by earlier roles in reverse chronological order.

Start with your job title, company name, city, and state on the left. Align dates in month and year format on the right-hand side.

Include only recent, relevant jobs. Avoid including work experience over 20 years to avoid ageism.

Beneath each job, you should have bullet points to emphasize why you're the perfect fit for the ammunition specialist.

How to write ammunition specialist experience bullet points

Your resume is your chance to show your biggest accomplishments. Don't just list your job responsibilities, instead take the opportunity to show why you're really good at what you do. Here is how you do that:

  • Start with strong action verbs like managed, spearheaded, created, etc. Your goal is to show what you did and verbs will help demonstrate your contributions.
  • Use numbers to quantify your achievements. Did you save time with a new report? Increase revenue? How large was the team you managed?
  • Keep it concise. You're highlighting your achievements. Consider if all details you are sharing are relevant, or can be written more efficiently.

Here are great bullet points from ammunition specialist resumes:

Work history example #1

Ammunition Specialist

American International Group

  • Received National Defense Service Ribbon.
  • Prepared invoices, reports, memos, letters and documents using word processors, spreadsheets, and database presentation software.
  • Selected as the Most Valuable Person in recruiting command for the 4th quarter of 2012.
  • Participated in quarterly field exercises to maintain MOS training and compliance.
  • Accelerated through basic and advanced Marine Combat

Work history example #2

Ammunition Specialist

United States Marine

  • Accelerated through basic and advanced Marine Combat
  • Maintained vehicles, rebuilt both Humvee, and seven ton trucks.
  • Gained leadership experience by achieving E-4.
  • Trained 5 89B/89A on SAAS-MOD during combat.
  • Participated in extensive Army exercises while training for combat.

Work history example #3

Infantryman

US Army

  • Executed safety regulations and procedures for handling dangerous materials.
  • Selected to CO RTO - 85th Division, Training NCO
  • Documented over 80 hours of courses including Combat Life Saver and Ground Fighting Techniques (Combatives Level 2).
  • Served as an infantry team leader, supervising 4-10 soldiers in both combat and garrison environments.
  • Maintained many weapons systems ranging from my primary weapon the M4A1 to the javelin anti-armor missile launcher.

Work history example #4

Mcdonalds Crew Member

Little Caesar Enterprises

  • Worked about every position there besides management.
  • Attended to customer issue and Accepted orders via Drive-Thru.
  • Greeted customers entering establishments with a friendly, positive attitude.
  • Worked at the busiest Chipotle in upstate New York and had to adapt to how fast everything moved there.
  • Self-motivated, hard-working and highly trainable.

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Add an education section to your resume

Here is the best way to format your education section:

  • Display your highest degree first.
  • If you graduated over 5 years ago, put this section at the bottom of your resume. If you lack relevant work experience, the education section should go to the top.
  • If you have a bachelor's or master's degree, do not list your high school education.
  • If your graduation year is more than 15-20 years ago, it's better not to include dates in this section.

Here are some examples of good education entries for resumes:

High School Diploma

2001 - 2001

Certificate in general studies

University of Portland, Portland, OR

2011 - 2012

Highlight your ammunition specialist certifications on your resume

If you have any additional certifications or education-like achievements, add them to the education section.

To list, use the full name of the certification and the organization that issued it, along with the date of achievement.

If you have any of these certifications, be sure to include them on your ammunition specialist resume:

  1. OSHA Safety Certificate

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