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800L LCAC Load Master

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

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Overview

An LCAC Load Master operates LCAC 100 Class vehicles during amphibious assault and training operations to and from LHAs, LHDs, LPDs, and LSDs and across surface and beach interfaces. This load master applies amphibious assault tactics, navigation, rules of the road, and radio and visual communication procedures while supervising the crew through all phases of craft operation.

Core Skills

  • Ship-to-beach air-cushion craft operation
  • International and inland navigation rules
  • Maritime radio and visual communications
  • Crew supervision across craft operations

Civilian Career Paths

Career associations are editorial assessments of the cited evidence, not an official crosswalk unless the evidence explicitly says so. O*NET supplies civilian occupation information, not proof of a military match. Related experience does not confer civilian qualifications. Tasks and tools below describe civilian work, not military training.

Captains, Mates, and Pilots of Water Vessels

LCAC operation, navigation-rule application, maritime communications, and crew supervision transfer directly to vessel navigation and deck-officer work.

How to prepare: Before enrolling in training, have USCG assess existing qualifications and military sea-service credit for the MMC and officer endorsement appropriate to your intended vessel, route, and role, using an official sea-service transcript or assignment history plus vessel particulars and duties, not a DD-214. Plan to meet the endorsement's sea-time, approved-training, medical, examination, and drug-testing requirements, along with applicable TWIC, age, and citizenship conditions; these roles typically require several years of maritime experience.

What the civilian work involves
  • Prevent ships under navigational control from engaging in unsafe operations.
  • 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

  • For open-ocean service, USCG-verified STCW training is required; an STCW endorsement generally requires the appropriate national endorsement.
  • If pursuing maritime pilot work, a state pilot license may also be required.
Evidence for this guidance (5 documents)
  1. NAVPERS 18068F Vol II (NEOCS, Jul 2026 edition): NEC 800L

    [1] NEC entry "800L - LCAC Load Master"; cached text line 20330; NAVPERS 18068F Vol II, 2026-07 edition

    Supports: Ship-to-beach air-cushion craft operation, International and inland navigation rules, Maritime radio and visual communications, Crew supervision across craft operations, 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. Bureau of Labor Statistics: Water Transportation Workers

    [3] How to Become; training, licenses and related experience; updated August 27, 2026, checked September 23, 2026

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

  4. USCG: 46 CFR 10.232 military sea-service evidence and credit

    [4] Paragraphs (a) and (d)(1), official eCFR snapshot September 21, 2026; retrieved September 24

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

  5. USCG: 46 CFR 11.201 officer-endorsement requirements

    [5] Paragraph (a), official eCFR snapshot September 21, 2026; retrieved September 24

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

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