Marine Corps MOS · Logistics

6602 Aviation Supply Officer

Current service use not established

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Overview

An aviation supply officer plans, directs, and controls aviation supply functions across aviation logistics squadrons, aircraft wings, air stations, expeditionary vessels, and staff organizations. The officer supervises logistics information systems, repairable material programs, financial management, budgeting, inventory management, and warehousing while coordinating support with external agencies and maintenance personnel.

Minimum clearance: Secret

Core Skills

  • Repairable aviation material program oversight
  • Aviation logistics information systems oversight
  • Supply budgeting and accounting oversight
  • Maintenance needs and supply performance coordination

Civilian Career Paths

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Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers

Directing aviation inventory and warehousing operations while overseeing logistics systems and accounting functions transfers directly to storage and distribution management.

How to prepare: Build a warehouse operations case study showing how you used supply indicators to set goals, direct staff, and coordinate inventory work with accounting.

What the civilian work involves
  • Supervise the activities of workers engaged in receiving, storing, testing, and shipping products or materials.
  • Plan, organize, or manage the work of subordinate staff to ensure that the work is accomplished in a manner consistent with organizational requirements.
  • Collaborate with other departments to integrate logistics with business systems or processes, such as customer sales, order management, accounting, or shipping.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft Access
  • Microsoft Project

Logisticians

Coordinating supply support with maintenance personnel and external agencies while monitoring supply indicators transfers to customer-focused logistics planning and performance review.

How to prepare: Create a sample customer logistics review that translates maintenance support needs into service targets and compares supply performance against those targets.

What the civilian work involves
  • Maintain and develop positive business relationships with a customer's key personnel involved in, or directly relevant to, a logistics activity.
  • Develop an understanding of customers' needs and take actions to ensure that such needs are met.
  • Review logistics performance with customers against targets, benchmarks, and service agreements.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft PowerPoint
  • SAP software

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (3 documents)
  1. NAVMC 1200.1L (FY26, in force): MOS 6602

    [1] MOS 6602 section "a. Summary"; cached text line 16412; NAVMC 1200.1L signed 2025-03-07, in force until 2026-10-01

    Supports: Repairable aviation material program oversight, Aviation logistics information systems oversight, Supply budgeting and accounting oversight, Maintenance needs and supply performance coordination, Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers (O*NET 11-3071.00), Logisticians (O*NET 13-1081.00)

    [2]NAVMC 1200.1L MOS 6602: Related SOC titles · MOS 6602 section "e. Related Standard Occupational Classification"

    Supports: Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers (O*NET 11-3071.00)

  2. O*NET: Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers

    [3] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers (O*NET 11-3071.00)

  3. O*NET: Logisticians

    [4] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Logisticians (O*NET 13-1081.00)

Defense contractor jobs for 6602

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