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S15A Public Quarters Enlisted Aide 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 Public Quarters Enlisted Aide Specialist supports public quarters operations by preparing meals, coordinating quarters maintenance, and planning official functions. The specialist follows protocol, etiquette, and public residence security requirements for Flag Officers and General Officers.

Minimum clearance: Secret

Core Skills

  • Official function planning and protocol
  • Public quarters maintenance coordination
  • Senior officer residence security compliance

Civilian Career Paths

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Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria

Preparing meals for military public quarters transfers directly to the cooking component of institutional and cafeteria work.

How to prepare: Practice scaling a menu to a target institution's meal volume while recording cooking and holding temperatures.

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.

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (2 documents)
  1. NAVPERS 18068F Vol II (NEOCS, Jul 2026 edition): NEC S15A

    [1] NEC entry "S15A - Public Quarters Enlisted Aide Specialist"; cached text line 10379; NAVPERS 18068F Vol II, 2026-07 edition

    Supports: Official function planning and protocol, Public quarters maintenance coordination, Senior officer residence security compliance, Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria (O*NET 35-2012.00)

  2. O*NET: Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

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

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