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RS Retail Services Specialist

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Overview

A Retail Services Specialist provides direct personal services by operating and managing ship stores, vending and cash collection machines, shipboard barbershops, laundry operations, postal services, and hotel services. Managers in this specialty also perform administrative and automated stock control functions for these activities.

Minimum ASVAB: VE+AR 83

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

  • Automated stock control across service activities
  • Vending and electronic point-of-sale operations
  • Shipboard coffee bar operations
  • Shipboard laundry and barbershop operations

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.

Retail Salespersons

Operating ship stores and electronic point-of-sale machines transfers directly to retail customer service and payment processing.

How to prepare: Practice a civilian store's checkout workflow, including cash and credit transactions, using a point-of-sale training demonstration.

What the civilian work involves
  • Greet customers and ascertain what each customer wants or needs.
  • Compute sales prices, total purchases, and receive and process cash or credit payment.
  • Answer questions regarding the store and its merchandise.

Stockers and Order Fillers

Managing automated stock control for shipboard retail and service activities transfers to merchandise stocking and order recordkeeping.

How to prepare: Build a sample inventory spreadsheet that records stock received, quantities issued, and remaining balances.

What the civilian work involves
  • Issue or distribute materials, products, parts, and supplies to customers or coworkers, based on information from incoming requisitions.
  • Keep records of out-going orders.
  • Stock shelves, racks, cases, bins, and tables with new or transferred merchandise.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Microsoft Excel

Baristas

Operating shipboard coffee bars and electronic point-of-sale machines overlaps directly with beverage service and customer payments.

How to prepare: Take a hands-on espresso preparation session to practice the drinks and equipment used by the cafes you are targeting.

What the civilian work involves
  • Receive and process customer payments.
  • Prepare or serve hot or cold beverages, such as coffee, espresso drinks, blended coffees, or teas.
  • Clean or sanitize work areas, utensils, or equipment.

Notes & Sources

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

    [1] Rating chapter "SCOPE OF RATING"; cached text line 67197; NAVPERS 18068F Vol I, 2026-01 edition

    Supports: Automated stock control across service activities, Vending and electronic point-of-sale operations, Shipboard coffee bar operations, Shipboard laundry and barbershop operations, Retail Salespersons (O*NET 41-2031.00), Stockers and Order Fillers (O*NET 53-7065.00), Baristas (O*NET 35-3023.01)

  2. O*NET: Retail Salespersons

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Retail Salespersons (O*NET 41-2031.00)

  3. O*NET: Stockers and Order Fillers

    [3] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Stockers and Order Fillers (O*NET 53-7065.00)

  4. O*NET: Baristas

    [4] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Baristas (O*NET 35-3023.01)

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