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W06A Minesweeping Boatswains Mate

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Overview

A Minesweeping Boatswain's Mate performs and supervises the rigging, streaming, and recovery of all minesweeping gear. The mate performs organizational level maintenance on minesweeping equipment, excluding electrical maintenance.

Core Skills

  • Rigging and supervision of minesweeping gear
  • Minesweeping gear deployment and recovery
  • Organizational maintenance of nonelectrical minesweeping equipment

Civilian Career Paths

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Riggers

Rigging, deploying, recovering, and supervising the handling of minesweeping gear provides directly relevant experience for civilian rigging work.

How to prepare: Take a practical rigging course focused on load-based gear selection, rigging tests, and civilian hoisting signals.

What the civilian work involves
  • Test rigging to ensure safety and reliability.
  • Signal or verbally direct workers engaged in hoisting and moving loads to ensure safety of workers and materials.
  • Select gear, such as cables, pulleys, and winches, according to load weights and sizes, facilities, and work schedules.

Sailors and Marine Oilers

Minesweeping gear rigging, deployment, recovery, and equipment maintenance transfer most directly to the deck-work side of this occupation.

How to prepare: Request an official sea-service transcript or assignment history for Coast Guard evaluation toward deck endorsements; a DD-214 is not accepted as sea-service evidence. Most water transportation jobs require a Transportation Worker Identification Credential and Merchant Mariner Credential with applicable endorsements, while open-ocean service requires USCG-verified STCW training.

What the civilian work involves
  • Handle lines to moor vessels to wharfs, to tie up vessels to other vessels, or to rig towing lines.

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (5 documents)
  1. NAVPERS 18068F Vol II (NEOCS, Jul 2026 edition): NEC W06A

    [1] NEC entry "W06A - Minesweeping Boatswains Mate"; cached text line 15967; NAVPERS 18068F Vol II, 2026-07 edition

    Supports: Rigging and supervision of minesweeping gear, Minesweeping gear deployment and recovery, Organizational maintenance of nonelectrical minesweeping equipment, Riggers (O*NET 49-9096.00), Sailors and Marine Oilers (O*NET 53-5011.00)

  2. O*NET: Riggers

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Riggers (O*NET 49-9096.00)

  3. O*NET: Sailors and Marine Oilers

    [3] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Sailors and Marine Oilers (O*NET 53-5011.00)

  4. Bureau of Labor Statistics: Water Transportation Workers

    [4] How to Become; training, licenses and related experience; updated August 27, 2026, checked September 23, 2026

    Supports: Sailors and Marine Oilers (O*NET 53-5011.00)

  5. USCG: 46 CFR 10.232 military sea-service evidence and credit

    [5] Paragraphs (a) and (d)(1), official eCFR snapshot September 21, 2026; retrieved September 24

    Supports: Sailors and Marine Oilers (O*NET 53-5011.00)

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