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General Info: Aviation maintenance administrationmen perform a variety of clerical, administrative, and managerial duties necessary to keep aircraft maintenance activities running efficiently. The rating requires close communication with all other aviation maintenance ratings.

What They Do: The duties performed by AZs include, but aren't limited to: scheduling aircraft inspections; keeping charts that show trends in aircraft system reliability; organizing and operating libraries of technical publications, reports and related maintenance data; issuing aircraft inspection and work orders; performing a wide range of clerical and administrative duties related to aircraft maintenance, such as preparing reports and correspondence, filing and typing; performing data base and system analysis; maintaining aircraft and engine logbooks, and associated records.

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ASVAB Score Requirements: VE+AR=102

Other Requirements: Security Clearance (SECRET) Requirement. Must be U.S. citizen

Technical Training Information: Enlistees are taught the fundamentals of this rating through on-the-job training or formal Navy schooling. Advanced technical training is available in this rating during later stages of career development.

Basic tasks of the rating. Familiarity with logs, records and reports procedures for naval aircraft. Basic organizational structures and aircraft operating and maintenance practices. Group instruction After "A" school, AZs may be assigned to a squadron, an aircraft carrier, a naval air station or a repair activity ashore. A typing test is required sometime during training. In a 20-year period in the Navy, AZs spend about 55 percent of their time assigned to fleet units and 45 percent to shore stations.

Working Environment: Aviation maintenance administrationmen usually work in a clean, comfortable office environment. Places of work vary depending on whether they are assigned to sea or shore duty. The tasks they perform are mostly mental and require close cooperation with fellow workers. AZs may be assigned to an aircraft or helicopter squadron that may deploy to Navy ships. Opportunities also exist to work in squadrons based at overseas sites or within the continental United States.

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Above Information Courtesy of United States Navy

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