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V18B SSDS MK-2 Maintenance Technician

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Overview

The SSDS MK-2 Maintenance Technician performs basic documented organizational level maintenance on SSDS MK2 component equipment and tactical networks aboard CVNs, LHDs, and LPDs. The technician performs operational, diagnostic, and corrective maintenance procedures, interprets Interactive Electronic Technical Manuals, and follows procedures for establishing, troubleshooting, and restoring QRCC segments and segment interfaces after casualties.

Core Skills

  • Tactical network segment fault restoration
  • Shipboard fiber optic network maintenance
  • Interactive electronic technical manual interpretation
  • Tactical trainer and display equipment diagnostics

Civilian Career Paths

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Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Commercial and Industrial Equipment

SSDS component diagnostics and documented corrective maintenance transfer to troubleshooting and repairing commercial electronic equipment.

How to prepare: Complete a hands-on troubleshooting exercise on commercial electronic equipment, documenting the fault, diagnostic steps, repair, and post-repair test results.

What the civilian work involves
  • Test faulty equipment to diagnose malfunctions, using test equipment or software, and applying knowledge of the functional operation of electronic units and systems.
  • Maintain equipment logs that record performance problems, repairs, calibrations, or tests.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Computerized maintenance management system CMMS

Computer Network Support Specialists

Establishing, troubleshooting, and restoring tactical network segments and interfaces provides directly relevant experience for network fault diagnosis and support.

How to prepare: Build a small Windows or Linux network lab and document how you diagnose and restore a deliberately interrupted connection.

What the civilian work involves
  • Identify the causes of networking problems, using diagnostic testing software and equipment.
  • Document network support activities.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Linux
  • Microsoft Windows

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (3 documents)
  1. NAVPERS 18068F Vol II (NEOCS, Jul 2026 edition): NEC V18B

    [1] NEC entry "V18B - SSDS MK-2 Maintenance Technician"; cached text line 13373; NAVPERS 18068F Vol II, 2026-07 edition

    Supports: Tactical network segment fault restoration, Shipboard fiber optic network maintenance, Interactive electronic technical manual interpretation, Tactical trainer and display equipment diagnostics, Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Commercial and Industrial Equipment (O*NET 49-2094.00), Computer Network Support Specialists (O*NET 15-1231.00)

  2. O*NET: Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Commercial and Industrial Equipment

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Commercial and Industrial Equipment (O*NET 49-2094.00)

  3. O*NET: Computer Network Support Specialists

    [3] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Computer Network Support Specialists (O*NET 15-1231.00)

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