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YN Yeoman

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Overview

Yeomen perform clerical, personnel security, and administrative duties such as typing, filing, and preparing correspondence and reports. They maintain records and publications, support shipboard legal proceedings, prepare personnel security documents, conduct personnel interviews, and manage offices.

Minimum ASVAB: VE+MK 99 or VE+MK+CS 148

ASVAB policy: Not policy-reviewed · coverage unknown · as of 2026-10-19

Program scope has not been reviewed.

Policy applicability and coverage of the program's score routes have not been reviewed. Shown-route arithmetic is not an eligibility decision.

Source: milpersman-1306-618-rating-list-2026-04 (source date 2026-04). Policy applicability has not been established.

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Core Skills

  • Pay and personnel issue resolution
  • Personnel and physical security administration
  • Legal proceedings support and file maintenance
  • Executive office and protocol support

Civilian Career Paths

Career associations are editorial assessments of the cited evidence, not an official crosswalk unless the evidence explicitly says so. O*NET supplies civilian occupation information, not proof of a military match. Related experience does not confer civilian qualifications. Tasks and tools below describe civilian work, not military training.

Executive Secretaries and Executive Administrative Assistants

YN experience managing executive offices, routing correspondence, maintaining reports, and addressing personnel matters transfers directly to executive administrative support.

How to prepare: Build a sample executive-office portfolio with a correspondence tracker, a formatted report, and a weekly schedule using fictional information.

What the civilian work involves
  • Manage and maintain executives' schedules.
  • Prepare invoices, reports, memos, letters, financial statements, and other documents, using word processing, spreadsheet, database, or presentation software.
  • Coordinate and direct office services, such as records, departmental finances, budget preparation, personnel issues, and housekeeping, to aid executives.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft Outlook
  • Microsoft Word

Legal Secretaries and Administrative Assistants

YN administrative support for legal proceedings and maintenance of legal files closely match civilian legal-office document and case-file work.

How to prepare: Take a legal-office procedures course covering civilian court terminology, document formatting, and filing workflows.

What the civilian work involves
  • Organize and maintain law libraries, documents, and case files.
  • Mail, fax, or arrange for delivery of legal correspondence to clients, witnesses, and court officials.
  • Prepare, proofread, or process legal documents, such as summonses, subpoenas, complaints, appeals, motions, or pretrial agreements.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Microsoft Word
  • Adobe Acrobat
  • Microsoft Outlook

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (3 documents)
  1. NAVPERS 18068F Vol I (NEOCS, Jan 2026 edition): YEOMAN (YN)

    [1] Rating chapter "SCOPE OF RATING"; cached text line 70756; NAVPERS 18068F Vol I, 2026-01 edition

    Supports: Pay and personnel issue resolution, Personnel and physical security administration, Legal proceedings support and file maintenance, Executive office and protocol support, Executive Secretaries and Executive Administrative Assistants (O*NET 43-6011.00), Legal Secretaries and Administrative Assistants (O*NET 43-6012.00)

  2. O*NET: Executive Secretaries and Executive Administrative Assistants

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Executive Secretaries and Executive Administrative Assistants (O*NET 43-6011.00)

  3. O*NET: Legal Secretaries and Administrative Assistants

    [3] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Legal Secretaries and Administrative Assistants (O*NET 43-6012.00)

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Predecessor codes

Historical codes with documented links to YN. Each history page explains the change.

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