Manage aviation maintenance records, flight logbooks, and the Naval Aviation Maintenance Program (NAMP). Ensure data integrity for aircraft and component maintenance histories.
ASVAB VE+AR: 102
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Aircraft fly on paperwork as much as on fuel, and this rating runs the records that make a flight legal. Your day moves through aircraft logbooks, maintenance data entry, work order tracking, technical directive compliance and scheduling inspections nobody is allowed to miss. You work beside the maintenance control watch, answering which aircraft are up, what is coming due and what is holding a jet on the deck. Deployed, the same job runs in shifts inside a carrier's maintenance spaces while the flight schedule churns overhead. It is desk work set in the middle of an industrial operation, and no squadron flies without it.
You learn the naval aviation maintenance system in detail, which amounts to an industrial compliance and reliability program. Database and records work builds real proficiency with maintenance management software, data accuracy and audit preparation. You get fluent in technical publications, directives and configuration control, tracking which part with which serial number sits on which aircraft. Analysis follows naturally, because maintenance data drives decisions about parts, manning and which airframe to fly tomorrow. Administrative duties add correspondence, reporting and the personnel side of keeping an office running.
The rating rewards precision, and it will teach you that a misplaced entry has consequences in the air. You develop the nerve to hold a line with senior maintainers when a record is not right yet. Working in maintenance control builds calm inside a constantly shifting set of priorities. You also become organized in a way that outlasts the uniform, since the whole job rests on knowing where everything stands. Clerks who take it seriously become the person a chief checks with before answering the skipper.
Aviation records and compliance is a paid civilian profession, and airlines, repair stations and charter operators all need people who can do it well. Your experience with maintenance and reliability software translates into maintenance planning, records and quality assurance roles on the civilian side. Regulatory familiarity fits airworthiness compliance and audit work, where the civil version of what you already did is the entire job. The broader skill of running data driven maintenance programs also transfers to fleet, rail and industrial plant operations. It is not glamorous, but it pays steadily and it does not require a degree to get started.
You open the day at the maintenance control desk pulling logbooks and updating aircraft and component maintenance records. Your work involves managing the Naval Aviation Maintenance Program data, tracking inspections and flight hours, and keeping logbooks audit-ready. Reconciling records with the work centers and safeguarding data integrity for the squadron defines your day.
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$43,902–$74,948
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Manage aviation maintenance records, flight logbooks, and the Naval Aviation Maintenance Program (NAMP). Ensure data integrity for aircraft and component maintenance histories.
Aircraft fly on paperwork as much as on fuel, and this rating runs the records that make a flight legal. Your day moves through aircraft logbooks, maintenance data entry, work order tracking, technical directive compliance and scheduling inspections nobody is allowed to miss. You work beside the maintenance control watch, answering which aircraft are up, what is coming due and what is holding a jet on the deck. Deployed, the same job runs in shifts inside a carrier's maintenance spaces while the flight schedule churns overhead. It is desk work set in the middle of an industrial operation, and no squadron flies without it.
You learn the naval aviation maintenance system in detail, which amounts to an industrial compliance and reliability program. Database and records work builds real proficiency with maintenance management software, data accuracy and audit preparation. You get fluent in technical publications, directives and configuration control, tracking which part with which serial number sits on which aircraft. Analysis follows naturally, because maintenance data drives decisions about parts, manning and which airframe to fly tomorrow. Administrative duties add correspondence, reporting and the personnel side of keeping an office running.
Aviation records and compliance is a paid civilian profession, and airlines, repair stations and charter operators all need people who can do it well. Your experience with maintenance and reliability software translates into maintenance planning, records and quality assurance roles on the civilian side. Regulatory familiarity fits airworthiness compliance and audit work, where the civil version of what you already did is the entire job. The broader skill of running data driven maintenance programs also transfers to fleet, rail and industrial plant operations. It is not glamorous, but it pays steadily and it does not require a degree to get started.
ASVAB VE+AR: 102. This is the catalog's listed requirement, not an individual eligibility decision. Confirm the current standard and any exceptions with the service.
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Navy enlisted occupational standards, NAVPERS 18068F, July 2026, Appendix B (rating enumeration) · reviewed 2026-09-26
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