Bruce Bitting
Newburg,MD
Overview
25
25
years of professional experience
Work History
Fire Fighter / Emergency Medical Technician Basic
Newburg Volunteer Rescue Squad and Fire Department
01.2018 - Current
- Prevent, combat, and extinguish fires with both simple and complex tools and procedures and analyzing hazardous situations and thinking of quick solutions and actions with the goal of protecting lives, the environment, and property as well as educating the local community on fire prevention and emergency preparedness and conduct safety inspections and welfare checks
- Providing appropriate medical care within the scope a Maryland certified EMT Basic
- Teach and participate in training classes and drills, perform general maintenance on firefighting equipment, monitor the local environment and weather patterns in preparation for manmade and natural disaster response
- During my time with the NVRSFD I have held the positions of Safety Officer, Assistant Fire Chief and Fire Chief
Armament Branch Superintendent, 2W Program Manager, and Advanced Programs Weapon Systems Manager
USAF
11.2020 - 12.2024
- Company Overview: National Guard Bureau
- Supervisor of the Armament Branch within the Aircraft Maintenance Division at the Air National Guard (ANG) Headquarters, overseeing the munitions, armament, and weapons loading career fields and their impact on aircraft, munitions, and missile maintenance and logistics concerning training, 7500 equipment end items, over 4000 manpower requirements to include forecasting budgetary shortfalls, and a munitions portfolio consisting of 12K+ asset worth $702M, supporting the National Guard in homeland defense, domestic operations, and overseas crisis and contingency response
- Manages all aspects of aircraft and munitions maintenance requirements for special access programs, impacting ANG equities
- Communicates strategic level interests, concerns, and direction between Department of Defense, Headquarters USAF, Headquarters National Guard Bureau, other Air Force Agencies, and senior leaders at the unit level
- Travels monthly for unit inspections, conferences, and working groups
- Coordinated with ANG Manpower Office to redefine fulltime workload factor manpower requirements for the munition’s sections, identified new workload factors identifying a shortfall of 64 positions
- Rewrote position descriptions for 6641 series, Ordnance Equipment Mechanic positions, validating/increasing current grades and creating new developmental descriptions for career progression
- Other duties assigned are floor safety monitor, back-up to the Crisis Action Team for logistics, maintenance, and munitions support for the National Guard, and alternant location member in the event of Continuity of Operations (COOP) activation for the Air National Guard Readiness Center
- National Guard Bureau
Air National Guard Munitions Career Field Manager
USAF
04.2016 - 11.2020
- Company Overview: National Guard Bureau
- Career Field manager providing logistics and maintenance guidance, training, and resources for 2000+ munitions airmen across 86 units in the Air National Guard
- Identified shortfalls in manpower, training, and equipment, requested funding resources through multiple lines of accounting to correct deficiencies
- Established training exercises to limit gaps in combat capability through increased proficiency training and cross talk between units
- Managed $702M in munitions assets and $25M in support equipment, ensuring units were prepared to support homeland and overseas crisis and contingency operations
- Critical component to support National Guard members as well as local authorities during the riots in May and June of 2020, supporting the movement of less than lethal munitions assets in accordance with Department of Defense regulations and state/Federal Laws
- National Guard Bureau
Volunteer Fire Fighter and EMT Basic
08.1999 - 01.2018
- Served as a member of multiple departments over the years due to movement of duty location by the U.S
- Air Force
- Prevent, combat, and extinguish fires with simple and complex tools and procedures and analyzing hazardous situations and thinking of quick solutions and actions with the goal of protecting lives, the environment, and property as well as educating the local community on fire prevention and emergency preparedness and conduct safety inspections and welfare checks
- Providing appropriate medical care within the scope a Maryland certified EMT Basic
- Teach and participate in training classes and drills, perform general maintenance on firefighting equipment, monitor the local environment and weather patterns in preparation for manmade and natural disaster response
Munitions Supervisor
Washington D.C. Air National Guard, 113th Wing
08.2012 - 04.2016
- Served as a supervisor of production and materiel management and accountability
- Supervised 12 personnel in multiple stages of career progression and training
- Prepared the unit for operational readiness exercises and inspection through education and experience, leading a team to reduce initial set up time from 4 hours to under 1 hour within first 6 months of employment
- Supported domestic operations in the Washington D.C
- Area during high-visibility dignitary visits, events, and presidential inaugurations
- Represented the United States and the D.C
- ANG with respect and dignity locally and overseas among multiple countries in South America
Ordnance Equipment Mechanic; Series: 6641 Ordnance Equipment Mechanic
Washington D.C. Air National Guard, 113th Wing
08.2012 - 04.2016
- Managed daily production, accountability, storage, inspection, and delivery of munitions assets in support of aircrew combat training and alert sorties, life safety ejection components, and security forces small arms training
- Conducted on the job training for personnel, certifying training records for career progression
- Represented senior leaders in their absence, advising leadership of munitions equities and impacts to training and real-world operations
- Identified a dangerous situation during a live missile transport, a failure in the brake system caused one of the wheels brake systems to begin to smoke, I notified the driver to stop and when I approached I noticed the system was about to catch fire, I immediately grabbed a fire extinguisher and extinguished and monitored the situation until the base fire department arrived where I coordinated efforts to transfer the missiles to another trailer and deem the situation safe
Alert Munitions Systems Technician
Vermont Air National Guard, 158th Fighter Wing Alert Det 1
06.2009 - 08.2012
- Aerospace Control Alert Technician and Unit Training Manager, responsible for supporting aircraft munitions required to directly support 24/7/365 homeland defense on the east coast and Washington D.C
- Ensured missiles are inspected, delivered, and ready for aerial operations as well as buildup and inspection of countermeasures and aircraft cannon ammunition supporting North American security posturing
- Monitored, scheduled, and coordinated formal and on the job training for 13 career fields at the detachment, as well as instructed First Aid/CPR
- Designated as the Emergency Management representative to ensure continuity of operations for alert which included establishing and preparing for alternate locations in the event of natural disaster
- Flawlessly executed the emergency management alternate location plan during Hurricane Irene in 2011
Munitions Systems Technician
USAF
08.2001 - 06.2009
- Responsible for safety, security, and accountability of all nonnuclear munitions and related components
- Performs and manages munitions production and materiel tasks and activities
- Identifies munitions and equipment requirements
- Operates and maintains automated data processing equipment to perform inspection, testing, and stockpile management activities
- Stores, maintains, assembles, issues, and delivers assembled nonnuclear munitions
- Routinely demilitarizes nonhazardous munitions
- Operates and maintains munitions materiel handling equipment
- Develops and implements munitions materiel management concepts and procedures
- Complies with explosive, missile, and ground safety, security, and environmental directives and practices
- Identifies munitions by filler, color code, marking, or physical characteristics
- Tests, assembles, and processes nonnuclear munitions
- Prepares munitions for loading on aircraft
- Installs warheads, guidance units, fuses, arming wires, squibs, strakes, wings, fins, control surfaces, and tracking flares
- Processes aircraft gun ammunition
- Maintains and reconditions munitions and equipment
- Reconditions, repairs, and replaces defective or missing parts
- Maintains operational or bench stock materiel and secures replenishment
- Modifies munitions and equipment when directed
- Inspects munitions for serviceability and applies munitions product assurance procedures
Skills
- Leadership Qualities
- Teamwork and Cooperation
- Structural Firefighting Strategies
- Decision-Making Under Pressure
Timeline
Armament Branch Superintendent, 2W Program Manager, and Advanced Programs Weapon Systems Manager
USAF
11.2020 - 12.2024
Fire Fighter / Emergency Medical Technician Basic
Newburg Volunteer Rescue Squad and Fire Department
01.2018 - Current
Air National Guard Munitions Career Field Manager
USAF
04.2016 - 11.2020
Munitions Supervisor
Washington D.C. Air National Guard, 113th Wing
08.2012 - 04.2016
Ordnance Equipment Mechanic; Series: 6641 Ordnance Equipment Mechanic
Washington D.C. Air National Guard, 113th Wing
08.2012 - 04.2016
Alert Munitions Systems Technician
Vermont Air National Guard, 158th Fighter Wing Alert Det 1
06.2009 - 08.2012
Munitions Systems Technician
USAF
08.2001 - 06.2009
Volunteer Fire Fighter and EMT Basic
08.1999 - 01.2018
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