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V85A Small Combatant Communications Electronic Subsystem Technician

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

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Overview

Small Combatant Communications Electronic Subsystem Technicians perform organizational level maintenance on electronic systems installed aboard small combatants. They maintain NAVMACS II systems, WSC-3, VRC-46, AN/URT-23, AN/URA-38 antenna couplers, and R2368A/URR receivers.

Core Skills

  • NAVMACS II electronic system maintenance
  • Shipboard LF/MF/HF radio receiver maintenance
  • AN/URA-38 antenna coupler maintenance

Civilian Career Paths

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Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Commercial and Industrial Equipment

Organizational-level maintenance of shipboard communications electronics provides directly relevant experience for maintaining and repairing commercial electronic equipment.

How to prepare: Complete a supervised bench-repair exercise on commercial electronic equipment, documenting fault diagnosis, repair, and post-repair testing.

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.
  • Install repaired equipment in various settings, such as industrial or military establishments.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Circuit evaluation software
  • Computerized maintenance management system CMMS

Telecommunications Equipment Installers and Repairers, Except Line Installers

Maintenance of NAVMACS II systems, radio equipment, and receivers provides a communications-equipment foundation for civilian telecommunications repair.

How to prepare: Take a hands-on telecommunications equipment course that includes circuit fault isolation and verification of repaired equipment against specifications.

What the civilian work involves
  • Test circuits and components of malfunctioning telecommunications equipment to isolate sources of malfunctions, using test meters, circuit diagrams, polarity probes, and other hand tools.
  • Test repaired, newly installed, or updated equipment to ensure that it functions properly and conforms to specifications, using test equipment and observation.
  • Assemble and install communication equipment such as data and telephone communication lines, wiring, switching equipment, wiring frames, power apparatus, computer systems, and networks.

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (3 documents)
  1. NAVPERS 18068F Vol II (NEOCS, Jul 2026 edition): NEC V85A

    [1] NEC entry "V85A - Small Combatant Communications Electronic Subsystem Technician"; cached text line 15484; NAVPERS 18068F Vol II, 2026-07 edition

    Supports: NAVMACS II electronic system maintenance, Shipboard LF/MF/HF radio receiver maintenance, AN/URA-38 antenna coupler maintenance, Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Commercial and Industrial Equipment (O*NET 49-2094.00), Telecommunications Equipment Installers and Repairers, Except Line Installers (O*NET 49-2022.00)

  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: Telecommunications Equipment Installers and Repairers, Except Line Installers

    [3] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Telecommunications Equipment Installers and Repairers, Except Line Installers (O*NET 49-2022.00)

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