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L04A Aerospace Medical Technician

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

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Overview

An Aerospace Medical Technician assists an Aerospace Medicine Physician with efforts to prevent accidents and illnesses and improve operational performance and readiness. The technician processes aviation physical examinations and waiver requests, manages medical readiness and deployability programs, maintains health records, and assists with aviation mishap investigations and reports.

Minimum clearance: Secret

Core Skills

  • Aviation physical and waiver request processing
  • Squadron medical readiness and deployability tracking
  • Flight duty health record maintenance
  • Aviation mishap investigation and reporting assistance

Civilian Career Paths

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Medical Assistants

Processing aviation physicals and maintaining health records while assisting an Aerospace Medicine Physician transfers to the documentation and physician-support aspects of medical assisting.

How to prepare: Arrange a medical-assisting skills assessment covering patient intake, vital signs, and examination-room preparation to identify hands-on training needs beyond your documented administrative duties.

What the civilian work involves
  • Record patients' medical history, vital statistics, or information such as test results in medical records.
  • Interview patients to obtain medical information and measure their vital signs, weight, and height.
  • Prepare treatment rooms for patient examinations, keeping the rooms neat and clean.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Epic Systems
  • eClinicalWorks EHR software

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (2 documents)
  1. NAVPERS 18068F Vol II (NEOCS, Jul 2026 edition): NEC L04A

    [1] NEC entry "L04A - Aerospace Medical Technician"; cached text line 7443; NAVPERS 18068F Vol II, 2026-07 edition

    Supports: Aviation physical and waiver request processing, Squadron medical readiness and deployability tracking, Flight duty health record maintenance, Aviation mishap investigation and reporting assistance, Medical Assistants (O*NET 31-9092.00)

  2. O*NET: Medical Assistants

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Medical Assistants (O*NET 31-9092.00)

Defense contractor jobs for L04A

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