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854A Naval Special Warfare (Combat Service Support)

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Overview

A Naval Special Warfare combat service support specialist provides supply, logistics, health services, administration, command and control, communications, and mission planning. The specialist also supports small boat operations, weapons maintenance, and other functions needed to sustain operating forces throughout the theater and at all levels of war.

Minimum clearance: Secret

Core Skills

  • Supply and logistics for theater operations
  • Mission planning and command support
  • Small boat operations for force support
  • Weapons maintenance for operating forces

Civilian Career Paths

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Logisticians

Supply and logistics support that sustains operating forces transfers to identifying customer logistics needs and coordinating support to meet them.

How to prepare: Build a sample civilian logistics plan in Microsoft Excel that connects customer supply needs to delivery targets and measures service performance.

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
  • SAP software

Notes & Sources

  • The NEC spans several support functions; the logistics path is most relevant to members with documented supply or logistics assignments.
Evidence for this guidance (2 documents)
  1. NAVPERS 18068F Vol II (NEOCS, Jul 2026 edition): NEC 854A

    [1] NEC entry "854A - Naval Special Warfare (Combat Service Support)"; cached text line 22253; NAVPERS 18068F Vol II, 2026-07 edition

    Supports: Supply and logistics for theater operations, Mission planning and command support, Small boat operations for force support, Weapons maintenance for operating forces, Logisticians (O*NET 13-1081.00)

  2. O*NET: Logisticians

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Logisticians (O*NET 13-1081.00)

Defense contractor jobs for 854A

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