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A25A Visual Documentation Specialist

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

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Overview

A Visual Documentation Specialist captures still imagery and motion video in uncontrolled environments, including expeditionary and humanitarian operations. The specialist documents legal matters and battle damage, captures investigative, medical, and intelligence imagery, uses night vision equipment, applies hands-on communication techniques for DoD themes and messages, and understands multiple methods of transmitting imagery in operational environments.

Core Skills

  • Imagery capture in uncontrolled operational environments
  • Legal and battle damage documentation
  • Night vision equipment use for documentation
  • Imagery transmission in operational environments

Civilian Career Paths

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Photographers

Capturing still imagery in uncontrolled environments and transmitting operational images transfers directly to field photography.

How to prepare: Build a portfolio of publicly releasable field photographs that demonstrates composition, changing lighting conditions, and preparation for electronic delivery.

What the civilian work involves
  • Adjust apertures, shutter speeds, and camera focus according to a combination of factors, such as lighting, field depth, subject motion, film type, and film speed.
  • Determine desired images and picture composition, selecting and adjusting subjects, equipment, and lighting to achieve desired effects.
  • Transfer photographs to computers for editing, archiving, and electronic transmission.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Adobe Photoshop

Forensic Science Technicians

Military legal documentation and investigative imagery capture provide a specific foundation for photographing evidence and crime scenes.

How to prepare: For photographic or evidence-support openings, take practical coursework in crime-scene evidence collection and preservation. Laboratory-focused forensic positions commonly require science education beyond that coursework, while crime-scene positions have agency-specific hiring qualifications.

What the civilian work involves
  • Use photographic or video equipment to document evidence or crime scenes.
  • Collect evidence from crime scenes, storing it in conditions that preserve its integrity.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Adobe Photoshop

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (3 documents)
  1. NAVPERS 18068F Vol II (NEOCS, Jul 2026 edition): NEC A25A

    [1] NEC entry "A25A - Visual Documentation Specialist"; cached text line 1652; NAVPERS 18068F Vol II, 2026-07 edition

    Supports: Imagery capture in uncontrolled operational environments, Legal and battle damage documentation, Night vision equipment use for documentation, Imagery transmission in operational environments, Photographers (O*NET 27-4021.00), Forensic Science Technicians (O*NET 19-4092.00)

  2. O*NET: Photographers

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Photographers (O*NET 27-4021.00)

  3. O*NET: Forensic Science Technicians

    [3] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Forensic Science Technicians (O*NET 19-4092.00)

Defense contractor jobs for A25A

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