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ABF Aviation Boatswain's Mate, Fuels

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Overview

An Aviation Boatswain's Mate, Fuels operates and maintains aviation fueling and lubricating oil systems aboard ships and on air-capable platforms. The sailor services fuel farms and aircraft fueling equipment, monitors fuel quality, enforces handling precautions, and supervises firefighting, rescue, and damage control teams in assigned fuel spaces.

Minimum ASVAB: VE+AR+MK+AS 161

ASVAB policy: Not policy-reviewed · coverage unknown · as of 2026-10-19

Program scope has not been reviewed.

Policy applicability and coverage of the program's score routes have not been reviewed. Shown-route arithmetic is not an eligibility decision.

Source: milpersman-1306-618-rating-list-2026-04 (source date 2026-04). Policy applicability has not been established.

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Core Skills

  • Aviation fuel and lubricating oil system maintenance
  • Fuel farm and aircraft refueling operations
  • Aviation fuel quality surveillance and control
  • Firefighting crew supervision in fuel spaces

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.

Pump Operators, Except Wellhead Pumpers

ABF experience operating and maintaining fuel pumps, piping, valves, tanks, and fuel farms directly supports civilian liquid-transfer operations.

How to prepare: Practice tracing a transfer route on a civilian pumping-system diagram, identifying the pumps, valves, tanks, and monitoring points needed to control flow.

What the civilian work involves
  • Monitor gauges and flowmeters and inspect equipment to ensure that tank levels, temperatures, chemical amounts, and pressures are at specified levels, reporting abnormalities as necessary.
  • Plan movement of products through lines to processing, storage, and shipping units, using knowledge of interconnections and capacities of pipelines, valve manifolds, pumps, and tankage.
  • Turn valves and start pumps to start or regulate flows of substances such as gases, liquids, slurries, or powdered materials.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Computerized maintenance management system CMMS
  • Supervisory control and data acquisition SCADA software

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (2 documents)
  1. NAVPERS 18068F Vol I (NEOCS, Jan 2026 edition): AVIATION BOATSWAIN’S MATE (FUELS) (ABF)

    [1] Rating chapter "SCOPE OF RATING"; cached text line 3818; NAVPERS 18068F Vol I, 2026-01 edition

    Supports: Aviation fuel and lubricating oil system maintenance, Fuel farm and aircraft refueling operations, Aviation fuel quality surveillance and control, Firefighting crew supervision in fuel spaces, Pump Operators, Except Wellhead Pumpers (O*NET 53-7072.00)

  2. O*NET: Pump Operators, Except Wellhead Pumpers

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Pump Operators, Except Wellhead Pumpers (O*NET 53-7072.00)

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