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AWR Naval Aircrewman Tactical-Helicopter

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Overview

A Tactical Helicopter Naval Aircrewman detects, analyzes, classifies, tracks, and engages subsurface, surface, and air contacts using sonar, sonobuoys, radar, electronic warfare, and imaging systems. The aircrewman coordinates tactical communications, conducts weapons delivery and command and control, and supports maritime strike, special operations, search and rescue, transport, replenishment, medical evacuation, and boarding missions.

Minimum clearance: Secret, often with SCI exposure

Minimum ASVAB: VE+AR+MK+MC 210 or VE+AR+MK+AS 210

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

  • Sonar and sonobuoy contact classification
  • Airborne radar and infrared surveillance
  • LINK-16 operations and tactical communications relay
  • Flight safety observation and crew coordination

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.

DIA Analysis Officer

Analyzing and classifying maritime and airborne contacts during tactical surveillance provides a foundation for assessing foreign military capabilities.

How to prepare: Prepare an unclassified assessment of foreign maritime capabilities using public sources to practice for DIA's writing test and interview. DIA requires U.S. citizenship and a granted security clearance, with background inquiry, drug screening, and any required medical or counterintelligence polygraph examinations.

Remote Sensing Scientists and Technologists

Operating airborne radar, inverse synthetic aperture radar, and electro-optical and infrared sensors provides relevant experience for interpreting remotely collected aircraft data.

How to prepare: Complete an introductory remote-sensing image-analysis course and build a small project using public imagery and Python to develop civilian data-analysis methods.

What the civilian work involves
  • Manage or analyze data obtained from remote sensing systems to obtain meaningful results.
  • Analyze data acquired from aircraft, satellites, or ground-based platforms, using statistical analysis software, image analysis software, or Geographic Information Systems (GIS).
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Python

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (4 documents)
  1. NAVPERS 18068F Vol I (NEOCS, Jan 2026 edition): NAVAL AIRCREWMEN (TACTICAL HELICOPTER) (AWR)

    [1] Rating chapter "SCOPE OF RATING"; cached text line 14188; NAVPERS 18068F Vol I, 2026-01 edition

    Supports: Sonar and sonobuoy contact classification, Airborne radar and infrared surveillance, LINK-16 operations and tactical communications relay, Flight safety observation and crew coordination, DIA Analysis Officer, Remote Sensing Scientists and Technologists (O*NET 19-2099.01)

  2. Defense Intelligence Agency: Analysis Career Field

    [2] Career Specifics, Military Capabilities, Applying to Be an Analyst; public page retrieved through Jina Reader 2026-09-23

    Supports: DIA Analysis Officer

  3. Defense Intelligence Agency: Hiring Process

    [3] Opening hiring overview and Employment Criteria, Initial Employment; public page retrieved through Jina Reader 2026-09-23

    Supports: DIA Analysis Officer

  4. O*NET: Remote Sensing Scientists and Technologists

    [4] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Remote Sensing Scientists and Technologists (O*NET 19-2099.01)

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Predecessor codes

Historical codes with documented links to AWR. Each history page explains the change.

AWAviation Warfare Systems Operator

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