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153E MH-60 Pilot

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Overview

An MH-60 Pilot commands and operates helicopters under tactical and non-tactical conditions during the day or night and in all types of weather. This pilot supports training, disaster relief, combat, combat support, and combat service support missions while maintaining aircrew training manual requirements.

Minimum clearance: Top Secret

Core Skills

  • Day and night operations across weather conditions
  • Helicopter operations for disaster relief missions
  • Aircraft-specific aircrew training proficiency maintenance

Civilian Career Paths

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Commercial Helicopter Pilot

Commanding helicopters on tactical, training, and disaster relief missions in varied weather and lighting conditions transfers directly to civilian helicopter flying.

How to prepare: Have a civilian helicopter flight school review your military flight records to identify remaining FAA certification and rating requirements. Commercial flying requires appropriate FAA certificates and ratings, medical clearance, and satisfaction of applicable flight-experience, knowledge, and examination requirements.

What the civilian work involves
  • Co-pilot aircraft or perform captain's duties, as required.
  • Use instrumentation to pilot aircraft when visibility is poor.
  • Monitor engine operation, fuel consumption, and functioning of aircraft systems during flights.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Aeronautical charts

Notes & Sources

  • Pilots must pass periodic physical and practical flight examinations to continue exercising their certificate privileges.
Evidence for this guidance (3 documents)
  1. Army COOL MOC feed: 153E MH-60 Pilot

    [1] data/authority/army-codes.json entry 153E (OSD COOL feed, fetched 2026-07-25); DB rank warrant_officer, authority codeType warrant_officer

    Supports: Day and night operations across weather conditions, Helicopter operations for disaster relief missions, Aircraft-specific aircrew training proficiency maintenance, Commercial Helicopter Pilot (O*NET 53-2012.00)

  2. O*NET: Commercial Pilots

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Commercial Helicopter Pilot (O*NET 53-2012.00)

  3. Bureau of Labor Statistics: airline and commercial pilot duties and entry requirements

    [3] What They Do; How to Become One; Licenses, Certifications, and Registrations; updated 2026-08-27, retrieved 2026-09-23

    Supports: Commercial Helicopter Pilot (O*NET 53-2012.00)

Defense contractor jobs for 153E

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