What we may need to consider are Technicians. Having a distinct cut bettwen specialists and generalist as well as developers and reserchers.
Much of it would be internal diffisions and have no bearing outside of school. But by cuting down needed knowledge and training to what is needed for assigment might not only increase avaible personell, but alse elvate the already existing personel witin military. Sure we need actuall engeneers for big scale repairs. But maintenace and small repairs is something soldiers were figuring out across time. Simply making it official would add some idle manpower some purpose.
Warrant officers perhaps. dunno.
And while school is a combination effort. it does fall in the trap of technolgy interconnectivity. Sooner or later we will have technical workers with very narrow but refined set of skills largly useless outside of their workarea. So while Gunnery and engeeniring would continue to gorw closer as a whole. they would grow elements that do not interact with the other dou to concentrating on their own demesne.
Gun Gunnery and Engeniering engenieers, so to say.
Gotta admit, growing the status of Blue collar workers as a result would be welcomed.
