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701C Landing Craft Utility Craftmaster

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A Navy Enlisted Classification: a skill designation sailors hold in addition to their rating.

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Overview

A Landing Craft Utility Craftmaster directs LCU movement during amphibious assault operations, including docking, undocking, beaching, and retracting. They oversee loading, stowage, and security of equipment and supplies, direct movement through navigation and communications procedures, and supervise a 13-person crew in all craft operations and maintenance.

Minimum clearance: Secret

Core Skills

  • Amphibious ship docking and undocking
  • Landing craft beaching and retraction
  • Assault cargo loading, stowage, and security
  • Electronic and visual navigation under navigation rules

Civilian Career Paths

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Captains, Mates, and Pilots of Water Vessels

Directing LCU navigation, docking, and a 13-person crew transfers directly to vessel movement and shipboard operations.

How to prepare: Use NMC's checklist for your intended deck endorsement to identify the applicable Merchant Mariner Credential application, sea-service, and training requirements. For military sea-service review, assemble records showing vessel name, GRT or displacement tonnage, propulsion power, dates assigned, and position served.

What the civilian work involves
  • Serve as a vessel's docking master upon arrival at a port or at a berth.
  • Consult maps, charts, weather reports, or navigation equipment to determine and direct ship movements.
  • Steer and operate vessels, using radios, depth finders, radars, lights, buoys, or lighthouses.

Notes & Sources

  • Military service in the Deck or Engine department may be creditable toward a Deck or Engine license; NMC evaluates that service under 46 CFR 10.232 and Marine Safety Manual Vol III, Part A, Chapter II.
Evidence for this guidance (4 documents)
  1. NAVPERS 18068F Vol II (NEOCS, Jul 2026 edition): NEC 701C

    [1] NEC entry "701C - Landing Craft Utility Craftmaster"; cached text line 16460; NAVPERS 18068F Vol II, 2026-07 edition

    Supports: Amphibious ship docking and undocking, Landing craft beaching and retraction, Assault cargo loading, stowage, and security, Electronic and visual navigation under navigation rules, Captains, Mates, and Pilots of Water Vessels (O*NET 53-5021.00)

  2. O*NET: Captains, Mates, and Pilots of Water Vessels

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Captains, Mates, and Pilots of Water Vessels (O*NET 53-5021.00)

  3. USCG National Maritime Center: Military to Mariner (military sea service credit)

    [3] Military Service Requirements section; public page retrieved through Jina Reader 2026-09-23

    Supports: Captains, Mates, and Pilots of Water Vessels (O*NET 53-5021.00)

  4. USCG National Maritime Center: Apply for Merchant Mariner Credential

    [4] Original, Raise of Grade, and STCW application steps; public page retrieved through Jina Reader 2026-09-23

    Supports: Captains, Mates, and Pilots of Water Vessels (O*NET 53-5021.00)

Defense contractor jobs for 701C

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