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Marine Corps MOS · Aviation

6502 Aviation Ordnance Officer

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Overview

An Aviation Ordnance Officer manages aviation ordnance logistics, maintenance, and operations. The officer also manages all aircraft weapon systems and Aircraft Armament Systems.

Minimum clearance: Secret

Core Skills

  • Aviation ordnance logistics and maintenance coordination
  • Aircraft armament systems management

Civilian Career Paths

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Logistics Engineers

Managing aviation ordnance logistics, maintenance, and operations provides a foundation for analyzing logistics processes and identifying improvements.

How to prepare: Build a sample logistics analysis in Microsoft Excel using non-sensitive data to identify a process bottleneck and propose a measurable improvement.

What the civilian work involves
  • Identify cost-reduction or process-improvement logistic opportunities.
  • Analyze or interpret logistics data involving customer service, forecasting, procurement, manufacturing, inventory, transportation, or warehousing.
  • Develop logistic metrics, internal analysis tools, or key performance indicators for business units.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Microsoft Excel

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (2 documents)
  1. NAVMC 1200.1L (FY26, in force): MOS 6502

    [1] MOS 6502 section "a. Summary"; cached text line 16251; NAVMC 1200.1L signed 2025-03-07, in force until 2026-10-01

    Supports: Aviation ordnance logistics and maintenance coordination, Aircraft armament systems management, Logistics Engineers (O*NET 13-1081.01)

  2. O*NET: Logistics Engineers

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Logistics Engineers (O*NET 13-1081.01)

Defense contractor jobs for 6502

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