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U46C Damage Control (DC) Elite Firefighter

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

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Overview

A Damage Control Elite Firefighter serves as the ship's firefighting tactics technical expert and leads technical training for the Damage Control Training Team. This firefighter trains and advises shipboard personnel on hazard detection, fire and damage control emergency management, rescue, hazardous materials, resource allocation, procedural compliance, and structural safety.

Core Skills

  • Damage control team technical instruction
  • Fire response staffing and resource allocation
  • Hazard detection and structural safety advising

Civilian Career Paths

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Firefighters

Shipboard firefighting tactics expertise and experience coordinating fire, rescue, and hazardous-materials responses transfer directly to civilian fire response work.

How to prepare: Ask a local fire academy to assess your Navy training and build an academy and EMS training plan; entry typically requires a high school diploma, and prospective firefighters must pass written and physical tests and complete interviews. Certification and licensing rules vary by state or locality, including possible EMT certification and a CDL or firefighter-endorsed driver's license for operating firetrucks.

What the civilian work involves
  • Rescue survivors from burning buildings, accident sites, and water hazards.
  • Assess fires and situations and report conditions to superiors to receive instructions, using two-way radios.
  • Respond to fire alarms and other calls for assistance, such as automobile and industrial accidents.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Affiliated Computer Services ACS FIREHOUSE

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (3 documents)
  1. NAVPERS 18068F Vol II (NEOCS, Jul 2026 edition): NEC U46C

    [1] NEC entry "U46C - Damage Control (DC) Elite Firefighter"; cached text line 12091; NAVPERS 18068F Vol II, 2026-07 edition

    Supports: Damage control team technical instruction, Fire response staffing and resource allocation, Hazard detection and structural safety advising, Firefighters (O*NET 33-2011.00)

  2. O*NET: Firefighters

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Firefighters (O*NET 33-2011.00)

  3. Bureau of Labor Statistics: Firefighters

    [3] What They Do; How to Become One; Licenses, Certifications, and Registrations; retrieved 23 September 2026

    Supports: Firefighters (O*NET 33-2011.00)

Defense contractor jobs for U46C

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