The Tactical Movement Team of Naval Mobile Construction Battalion Two Four provides security for a convoy transporting civil engineering and support equipment in Iraq.

The Tactical Movement Team of Naval Mobile Construction Battalion Two Four provides security for a convoy transporting civil engineering and support equipment in Iraq. Seabees use the equipment in a variety of major construction and base maintenance projects.


Transportation & Logistics

Job Overview:

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Classification:
√ Enlisted
√ Officer
Available in:
√ Active Duty
√ Navy Reserve

Take great pride in your ability to coordinate and carry out the movement of troops, equipment, supplies, and machinery effectively and efficiently – to anywhere in the world.

Pay:

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Job Description:

The United States Navy is a mobile military force consisting of ships, submarines, aircraft, equipment, and more than 370,000 Sailors – all continually on the move. To keep the fleet ready and able to travel anywhere and everywhere in the world safely and efficiently requires strategic planning and strong organizational skills. The Sailors found in the transportation and logistics field take great pride in their ability to coordinate and carry out the movement of troops, equipment, supplies, and machinery. If you’re an individual with excellent planning, organizational and troubleshooting skills, the Navy transportation and logistics field might be the career path for you.

What Will You Do?

Your job is to get Sailors, equipment, and supplies to the correct destination in an orderly and efficient manner. Your office may be the deck of an aircraft carrier in the South China Sea or the flight line of an air cargo terminal in Japan. Your ability to study the tides and currents may prevent amphibious landing craft from running aground during a beach landing. Or your knowledge of navigation and bearings might save hours of time getting critical supplies to Sailors ashore. As a Sailor in the transportation and logistics field you might also:

  • Use and maintain navigational equipment
  • Take radar bearings and ranges
  • Pilot courses for safe navigation
  • Compute high and low tides and velocity of ocean currents
  • Organize and operate Navy post offices, ashore and afloat, receiving and issuing spare parts, clothing, and general supplies
  • Keep financial and inventory records for all parts in submarine storerooms and submarine-support, shore-based warehouses
  • Operate computer systems that provide logistic support information for submarine supplies and accounting functions
  • Keep fiscal records
  • Prepare inventory reports and correspondence
  • Keep official publications up to date

Skills and Training

In the transportation and logistics specialty, you will learn through on-the-job training and formal Navy schooling. You will be taught shop management skills, the fundamental principles of retail and marketing, and strong organizational and transportation skills that will transfer directly to the civilian world.

Your training might also prepare you for future careers:

  • Warehouse Manager
  • Router
  • Post Office Clerk
  • Accounting Clerk
  • Bookkeeper
  • Storekeeper
  • Retail Store Manager
  • Stock Control Supervisor
  • Transportation Agent

Advanced technical and operational training is available in this career specialty during later stages of career development.

Earn College Credits

Much of the training you’ll receive in this field may count as credit hours toward a bachelor’s or associate’s degree. You might also have the opportunity for continued education through various college and/or tuition assistance programs.

Career Outlook

The transportation of goods is a booming industry around the world. Whether transporting people or cargo via ship, plane, train, or truck you will gain the knowledge needed for a career in the area of transportation, whether in or out of the Navy.