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P09A Protective Service Specialist

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

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Overview

A protective service specialist plans, coordinates, and executes protective missions for personnel in high-risk billets who may be targeted by terrorists. This specialist applies protective tactics, anti-ambush operations, counter-surveillance measures, evasive driving techniques, and physical security procedures.

Core Skills

  • Protective mission planning for high-risk personnel
  • Anti-ambush and counter surveillance operations
  • Evasive driving for protective missions

Civilian Career Paths

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Security Management Specialists

Protective mission planning, counter surveillance operations, and physical security experience transfer to assessing physical threats and recommending protective measures.

How to prepare: Build a sample civilian-site physical security assessment that identifies threats and recommends improvements to security procedures.

What the civilian work involves
  • Assess the nature and level of physical security threats so that the scope of the problem can be determined.
  • Recommend improvements in security systems or procedures.
  • Perform risk analyses so that appropriate countermeasures can be developed.

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (2 documents)
  1. NAVPERS 18068F Vol II (NEOCS, Jul 2026 edition): NEC P09A

    [1] NEC entry "P09A - Protective Service Specialist"; cached text line 9953; NAVPERS 18068F Vol II, 2026-07 edition

    Supports: Protective mission planning for high-risk personnel, Anti-ambush and counter surveillance operations, Evasive driving for protective missions, Security Management Specialists (O*NET 13-1199.07)

  2. O*NET: Security Management Specialists

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Security Management Specialists (O*NET 13-1199.07)

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