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LS Logistics Specialist

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Overview

Logistics Specialists order, receive, inspect, store, preserve, package, ship, and issue materials and cargo for aviation, surface, subsurface, and expeditionary forces. They provide accounting support, operate Navy post offices, account for government materials, and maintain required forms, records, reports, correspondence, and files.

Minimum ASVAB: VE+AR 92

ASVAB policy: Not policy-reviewed · coverage unknown · as of 2026-10-18

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

  • Financial account preparation and auditing
  • Government material accountability and recordkeeping
  • Material forecasting and supply ordering
  • Cargo inspection, preservation, and packaging

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.

Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory Clerks

LS experience receiving, inspecting, inventorying, shipping, and accounting for materials directly supports shipment verification and inventory recordkeeping.

How to prepare: Practice reconciling a sample shipment against its order and recording discrepancies in Microsoft Excel.

What the civilian work involves
  • Examine shipment contents and compare with records, such as manifests, invoices, or orders, to verify accuracy.
  • Prepare documents, such as work orders, bills of lading, or shipping orders, to route materials.
  • Record shipment data, such as weight, charges, space availability, damages, or discrepancies, for reporting, accounting, or recordkeeping purposes.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Microsoft Excel
  • SAP software

Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks

LS duties preparing, maintaining, and auditing financial accounts and records transfer directly to checking accounting entries and supporting financial recordkeeping.

How to prepare: Complete a practice bookkeeping exercise in Intuit QuickBooks that includes transaction entry and checking postings against supporting documents.

What the civilian work involves
  • Operate computers programmed with accounting software to record, store, and analyze information.
  • Check figures, postings, and documents for correct entry, mathematical accuracy, and proper codes.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Intuit QuickBooks
  • Microsoft Excel

Logistics Analysts

LS material forecasting, inventory accountability, and logistics recordkeeping provide a foundation for interpreting supply data and tracking product flow.

How to prepare: Build an Excel portfolio using sample inventory and shipment data to explain stock availability and trace product movement from receipt through issue.

What the civilian work involves
  • Maintain databases of logistics information.
  • Track product flow from origin to final delivery.
  • Interpret data on logistics elements, such as availability, maintainability, reliability, supply chain management, strategic sourcing or distribution, supplier management, or transportation.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft Power BI
  • Structured query language SQL

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (4 documents)
  1. NAVPERS 18068F Vol I (NEOCS, Jan 2026 edition): LOGISTICS SPECIALIST (LS)

    [1] Rating chapter "SCOPE OF RATING"; cached text line 47494; NAVPERS 18068F Vol I, 2026-01 edition

    Supports: Financial account preparation and auditing, Government material accountability and recordkeeping, Material forecasting and supply ordering, Cargo inspection, preservation, and packaging, Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory Clerks (O*NET 43-5071.00), Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks (O*NET 43-3031.00), Logistics Analysts (O*NET 13-1081.02)

  2. O*NET: Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory Clerks

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory Clerks (O*NET 43-5071.00)

  3. O*NET: Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks

    [3] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks (O*NET 43-3031.00)

  4. O*NET: Logistics Analysts

    [4] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Logistics Analysts (O*NET 13-1081.02)

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Predecessor codes

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

PCPostal ClerkSKStorekeeper

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