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CSS Culinary Specialist Submarine

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Overview

Culinary Specialist Submarines operate submarine messes and living quarters, plan menus, and prepare and serve meals for naval personnel. They estimate and order food, check deliveries, manage storage, keep food service spaces and equipment sanitary, and maintain financial records and reports.

Minimum ASVAB: AR+MK+EI+GS 200 or VE+AR+MK+MC 200

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

  • Food quantity estimation and supply ordering
  • Delivery quantity checks and quality inspection assistance
  • Storeroom and refrigerated space sanitation
  • Food service financial records and reporting

Civilian Career Paths

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Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria

CSS experience planning, preparing, and serving meals for Naval personnel transfers directly to institutional meal production and food storage.

How to prepare: Build a sample institutional menu with portion counts, ingredient quantities, and a food-temperature recording sheet.

What the civilian work involves
  • Monitor and record food temperatures to ensure food safety.
  • Cook foodstuffs according to menus, special dietary or nutritional restrictions, or numbers of portions to be served.
  • Rotate and store food supplies.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Meals Plus

Food Service Managers

Operating and managing Navy messes, maintaining financial records, and overseeing sanitary food service spaces provide a foundation for civilian food service operations.

How to prepare: Practice building a weekly staff schedule that assigns meal preparation, service, and sanitation duties around a sample menu.

What the civilian work involves
  • Keep records required by government agencies regarding sanitation or food subsidies.
  • Schedule staff hours and assign duties.
  • Investigate and resolve complaints regarding food quality, service, or accommodations.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Intuit QuickBooks

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (3 documents)
  1. NAVPERS 18068F Vol I (NEOCS, Jan 2026 edition): CULINARY SPECIALIST (SUBMARINE) (CSS)

    [1] Rating chapter "SCOPE OF RATING"; cached text line 54889; NAVPERS 18068F Vol I, 2026-01 edition

    Supports: Food quantity estimation and supply ordering, Delivery quantity checks and quality inspection assistance, Storeroom and refrigerated space sanitation, Food service financial records and reporting, Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria (O*NET 35-2012.00), Food Service Managers (O*NET 11-9051.00)

  2. O*NET: Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria (O*NET 35-2012.00)

  3. O*NET: Food Service Managers

    [3] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Food Service Managers (O*NET 11-9051.00)

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