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LSE8-E9

Logistics Specialist

E-8 to E-9 (Senior NCO) · Navy

E1–E3E-4E-5E-6E-7E8–E9
HEADS UP

LSCS/LSCM (E-8/E-9) — senior chief or master chief logistics specialist — is where the supply department's financial management legacy lives and where the Navy's institutional supply chain knowledge is concentrated. The LSCS is the department's senior enlisted financial manager and the supply officer's primary enlisted advisor. The LSCM — Command Master Chief at the LS pinnacle — is the command's senior enlisted leader, period. At these paygrades the work is no longer about posting transactions or reconciling ledgers. It is about building the systems, the standards, and the people who post the transactions and reconcile the ledgers correctly long after you have detached.

The Honest MOS Read
Logistics Specialist Senior Chief and Master Chief (LSCS, E-8 and LSCM, E-9) are the paygrades where the LS rating's institutional knowledge concentrates. Every chief petty officer who made a career decision at LS2 paygrade that eventually led to this rank made it because someone senior saw something worth investing in. At LSCS and LSCM, you are that senior. The investment you make in the LSC below you — in the LS1 who is building her chief's file, in the LS3 who is trying to figure out whether the rating fits — is the primary job. The LSCS's financial management scope is fleet-level or command-level, not section-level. At a major shore command — a fleet logistics center, NAVSUP headquarters, a regional supply command — the LSCS is the senior enlisted advisor to the commanding officer or the supply corps flag officer on the enlisted workforce's readiness, financial management competency, and professional development. The NAVSUP command LSCS who advises the CO on the financial management workforce's capability gaps is influencing training programs, assignment policies, and rating-wide competency standards. This is not a description of a job; it is a description of a responsibility. The Command Master Chief (LSCM) path is the senior-most enlisted leadership role in the Navy, and the LS rating's CMC designees serve in command master chief billets across the Navy's installation, major command, and fleet level. The LSCM who serves as a ship's command master chief is the CO's primary advisor on the welfare, readiness, morale, and professional development of the entire enlisted force — not just the LS rating, not just the supply department. The goat locker defers to the command master chief on the things that matter most to the enlisted force, and the CO listens to the CMC because the CMC's job is to say the things that need saying without a filter. At LSCS paygrade, the Senior Enlisted Academy at Newport — mandatory before CMC selection, competitive credential for LSCS — is a formative professional development milestone. The network built at SEA is the network that shapes the master chief path: senior enlisted leaders across ratings, across branches, who share a common professional education and who will serve together at the command master chief and fleet master chief level for the next decade. The LSCS and LSCM who will be most valued in the post-service environment — whether that means a DoD civilian financial management career, a private-sector supply chain leadership role, or a board directorship in a military-adjacent nonprofit — is the one who used these final years of active service to build the credentials that translate: a clearance held current, an advanced degree in accounting or supply chain management completed via Tuition Assistance, the CPA credential pursued or active, and the senior-leadership reference network in place before the retirement ceremony. The retirement conversation — when, under what circumstances, for what next — is the honest career planning work of the LSCS/LSCM paygrade. The Navy's blended retirement system (BRS) or the legacy High-3 system (for those who were in before BRS implementation) determines the pension math. The Transition Assistance Program (TAP), the USERRA-protected civilian hiring preferences, and the GS-equivalency tables for DoD civilian financial management roles are worth understanding before the retirement package is filed, not during terminal leave.
Career Arc
  • 01LSCS pin-on via senior chief selection board — the most competitive advancement gate in the rating.
  • 02Senior Enlisted Academy (SEA) at Naval Station Newport, RI — mandatory before CMC selection, competitive credential at LSCS.
  • 03Major command or fleet-level advisory role: NAVSUP command senior chief, fleet logistics center LSCS, or afloat command LSCS on a carrier or major amphibious command.
  • 04LSCM selection (E-9) — the Command Master Chief track; represents the commanding officer's senior enlisted advisory function across the entire command.
  • 05Retirement planning: TAP, BRS/High-3 math, GS-civilian financial management transition, CPA/CPIM/CLT credential current.
  • 06Legacy building: the LSC-selection record you produced among the LS1s you mentored is your most enduring professional accomplishment.
Common Screwups
  • ×Treating the LSCS or LSCM role as an administrative management function rather than a leadership and advisory function. The senior chief who is doing the chief's job — managing transactions, running the obligation ledger, covering the sections — has not transitioned to senior chief. The senior chief's job is to build the chiefs who manage the transactions and run the ledger.
  • ×Using the Command Master Chief position to run the supply department's logistics functions rather than the command's enlisted-force welfare and readiness functions. The LSCM who is in the supply department every morning reviewing obligation records is not doing the CMC job. The command's supply department has a supply officer and an LSC for that. The CMC's job is the entire enlisted force.
  • ×Failing to complete the Senior Enlisted Academy before the CMC selection window opens. SEA attendance is a prerequisite for CMC selection in most billet sequences. The LSCS who defers SEA attendance past the E-8/early-E-9 window may find the CMC path effectively closed.
  • ×Arriving at separation without a second-career plan that matches the financial management credential set built over twenty years. The LSCS/LSCM who separates at twenty years with no GS-civilian pathway identified, no advanced credential current, and no professional network outside the Navy supply community is leaving significant post-service earning potential on the table.
  • ×NJP / financial misconduct at E-8 or E-9. At these paygrades, the consequence is not just career-ending — it is a public event within the Navy's senior enlisted community and potentially a criminal proceeding given the appropriated funds involved. The LSCS who handles a financial management irregularity by covering it rather than reporting it is the LSCS whose retirement ceremony is replaced by a court-martial.

A Day in the Life

  • 0500-0600Wake up. LSCS: review the financial management calendar for the day and the command's operational schedule for anything that touches supply department readiness. LSCM: review the command's plan of the day and any overnight message traffic that affects the enlisted force — personnel actions, operational changes, safety incidents.
  • 0600-0700PT. The LSCS/LSCM who maintains physical standards in front of the force demonstrates that standards do not diminish with seniority.
  • 0700-0800Hygiene, chow. Message traffic review complete. LSCS: flag any NAVADMIN or NAVSUP guidance that touches the supply department's financial management program. LSCM: flag any NAVADMIN or MCPON advisory that touches the command's enlisted force.
  • 0800-0900LSCS: morning sync with the supply officer — five-minute financial management status, any personnel flag, anything that requires the supply officer's attention before the department head meeting. Then Chief's Mess morning call with the command master chief. LSCM: CO's morning brief — the CMC is the last person who speaks before the CO ends the morning sync, because the CMC's function is to raise what the staff did not raise.
  • 0900-1100LSCS: supply department oversight — spot-check the LSC's section management, review the GPC log sample, review the obligation ledger update with the LS1 budget administrator. LSCM: command walk-around — presence in every department, enlisted spaces, galley, work centers. The CMC who is present in the spaces hears what the chiefs hear before the chiefs decide whether to raise it.
  • 1100-1200LSCS: chief-development mentoring session — the LS1 who is building her LSC file gets a monthly 30-minute session with the LSCS: career arc review, eEVAL narrative coaching, assignment decision analysis. LSCM: senior enlisted sync with department CMCs or senior chiefs — the command's enlisted readiness picture assembled before the afternoon department-head meeting.
  • 1200-1300Chow in the Chief's Mess. The institutional knowledge of the command — operational plans, personnel dynamics, command climate — travels through the Mess at the noon meal. The LSCS/LSCM who is present and engaged at noon chow is informed. The one who eats at the desk is not.
  • 1300-1600LSCS: financial management program administration — assistance-visit preparation if applicable, SOP update review if a NAVSUP publication changed, financial certification documentation review. LSCM: CO advisory work — any enlisted issue that reached the CMC's desk today briefed, in person or by written summary, before the CO ends her day.
  • 1600 onwardLSCS: liberty call when the financial management calendar is clear; stays when the assistance visit is tomorrow or when the certification deadline is this week. LSCM: stays when the command needs the CMC present — personnel action, disciplinary proceeding, morale event. Goes home when the command does not.

Weekly Cadence

The LSCS's week is organized around two planning horizons: the financial management calendar (TYCOM reporting cycles, GPC review deadlines, assistance-visit preparation, fiscal year-end close) and the chief-development calendar (monthly mentoring sessions with LS1s tracking toward chief, quarterly advancement training reviews, annual eEVAL season). Neither calendar waits for the other; the LSCS manages both simultaneously by knowing the deadlines three months out, not three weeks. Monday sets the week: financial management status brief to the supply officer, Chief's Mess morning call-and-response, and the chief-development status review — who is building toward chief selection this cycle, what does each candidate need this week. The supply officer's weekly meeting on Monday afternoon draws on the LSCS's financial management summary; those inputs need to be accurate, concise, and prepared before the meeting. The LSCM's weekly rhythm is different in structure. The CMC's week is driven by the command's operational calendar, the CO's advisory schedule, and the enlisted force's real-time concerns — which are not predictable by day of the week. The disciplinary case that arrives on a Thursday, the sailor in financial distress who walks into the CMC's office on a Tuesday, the command climate survey that drops on a Friday afternoon — the CMC's week is shaped by the command's actual needs, not by a financial management calendar. The LSCM who builds enough white space into the weekly schedule to respond to the command's genuine urgent needs is the CMC doing the job. The one whose calendar is fully booked three weeks out has a scheduling problem disguised as an organizational commitment.

Key Skills — How to Drill Each

  1. 01
    Advise the commanding officer or flag officer on the enlisted financial management workforce's readiness, competency gaps, and professional development needs — with specific, actionable recommendations, not general observations.
    The senior chief's advisory function is valuable only when it is specific and actionable. 'The LS rating has a financial management competency gap at the LS2 paygrade' is an observation. 'The LS2 cohort at this command has an average GPC audit finding rate 40% above the fleet benchmark; the root cause is inadequate training on the current DoD GPC regulation changes from 2024; the corrective action is a four-hour classroom update for all LS2 GPC agents with a documented check-ride before next quarter's program review' is an advisory recommendation. The CO or flag officer who receives the second version has something to act on. The one who receives the first version has a conversation that goes nowhere.
  2. 02
    Build and maintain the LS rating's institutional knowledge at the command — the procedures that outlive individual tours, the training programs that scale, the documentation that transfers with the next LSCS.
    The LSCS who is the only one who knows how the supply department's financial management works is a single point of failure. Institutional knowledge lives in documented procedures, trained personnel, and established programs — not in one person's head. Build the supply department's standard operating procedure library to the level that the next LSCS who walks in can operate the department on day one without a two-week hand-off. The procedures manual that the supply officer can hand to the relieving supply officer as a complete department reference is the LSCS's most durable professional contribution.
  3. 03
    Develop the next generation of supply chiefs — identify the LS1s with chief potential, manage their career development proactively, write the eEVAL narratives and endorsements that give the selection board the information it needs to select them.
    The chief's legacy is measured in the chiefs she produced. Keep a list of the LS1s in the supply community who are tracking toward chief selection. Know their current assignment, their NWAE study status, their supply officer relationship, and their financial management accomplishment record. When the selection board year opens, the LSCS who can walk the commanding officer through a specific, documented case for each candidate — 'Petty Officer Torres managed the $4.2M FY26 operating account with a year-end obligation rate of 97% and zero ADA findings; her supply officer endorsement from USS Gonzalez is in the package' — is the LSCS whose candidates the board selects. The one who says 'I think she is ready' without documentation is the one whose candidates wait another year.
  4. 04
    Manage the senior-enlisted transition ecosystem — retirement planning, TAP, civilian hiring preference, GS-equivalency — for LSCS/LSCM and for the LSCS who is managing the transition pipeline for junior LS retirees.
    The Transition Assistance Program (TAP) is mandatory; the LSCS who waits for the command's mandatory TAP class to start transition planning is the LSCS who leaves the Navy unprepared. Start the transition planning two years before the projected retirement date: identify the target GS billet series (GS-1101 Logistics Management, GS-1105 Purchasing, GS-0501 Financial Administration), submit the GS-equivalency resume package, activate any certifications (CPA, CPIM, CLT) that have lapsed, and use the USERRA hiring preference in federal job applications before the competitive hiring pool fills the billets the veteran preference would have secured.

Manuals & References — What Chapters Matter

  • NAVSUP P-485 and the entire NAVSUP publication library — the LSCS is the rating's procedural standard-setter
    The LSCS is the senior enlisted procedural authority for the LS rating at the command. When NAVSUP updates P-485, the LSCS identifies the sections that affect the supply department's current procedures, updates the SOP, briefs the chiefs on the change, and ensures the LS1s update their training programs. The NAVSUP publication library is not reference material for the LSCS — it is the operating environment.
  • Antideficiency Act and DoD FMR (all relevant volumes) — the legal framework the LSCS certifies compliance with annually
    The LSCS who signs the financial management certification as the department's senior enlisted financial management authority is attesting personal familiarity with the ADA and the DoD FMR. The CO who signs above the LSCS's name on the certification is relying on the LSCS's attestation being informed and accurate. 'I was not aware of the DoD FMR Volume 14 chapter on obligation controls' is not a defense in an ADA investigation — it is a description of a gap the LSCS should have closed at the LS2 paygrade.
  • Chief Petty Officer professional literature — The Bluejacket's Manual, CPO 365 program guidance, MCPON professional development guidance
    The LSCS and LSCM who are not reading the professional literature of the senior enlisted community — the MCPON's guidance on fleet priorities, the CPO 365 program's leadership development framework, the Senior Enlisted Academy's curriculum materials — are not engaging with the professional community they lead. The goat locker is a professional community; the chief who reads it is the chief who contributes to it.
  • GS Federal Pay Scale and OPM GS-1101 / GS-1105 / GS-0501 job series classification standards
    The LSCS approaching retirement who has not read the GS position classification standards for the logistics management and financial administration series has not mapped her Navy financial management experience to the civilian hiring framework. The classification standards describe exactly what a GS-1101 or GS-0501 position requires — and the LSCS's twenty years of Navy financial management is a near-direct match to the GS-12 and GS-13 requirements if the civilian resume is written to demonstrate it.

Standards — How to Hit Each

  • Annual financial management certification — complete, fully documented, zero ADA findings, delivered before the CO's signature deadline.
    The LSCS's financial management certification is not a paperwork exercise; it is the command's formal legal attestation of compliance. Own every line of supporting documentation. The CO who signs the certification is relying on the LSCS's preparation. A gap in the documentation discovered after the CO signs is a gap the LSCS allowed to reach the CO's signature block — which is the most consequential place for a gap to surface.
  • Supply management assistance visit — no material findings; documented corrective actions for any administrative findings before the visit team departs.
    The LSCS runs the assistance visit at the department level. The supply officer reviews the high-level results; the LSCS manages the document-review process, briefs the visiting team on the supply department's financial management program, and closes any administrative findings with documented corrective actions before the team's final out-brief. A 'no material findings' result is the performance standard.
  • Chief development pipeline — at least one LS petty officer from the supply community advancing to LSC per selection cycle the LSCS is present for.
    This is not a quota; it is a mentorship standard. The LSCS who is actively developing the LS1s in the supply community — specific career counseling, eEVAL narrative support, assignment guidance, selection-board package review — produces chief candidates the board selects. The LSCS who is not producing chief candidates from the community she serves is not mentoring; she is managing.

Technical Mistakes — Concrete Consequences

  • Allowing the supply department's standard operating procedures to become a personal knowledge repository rather than a documented institutional asset.
    When the LSCS detaches and the relieving chief walks in, the supply department's financial management procedures live in the SOP manual, not in the outgoing chief's head. The LSCS who manages by personal knowledge and departs without a complete procedures transfer leaves the relieving chief managing a supply department she cannot yet operate at standard. The supply officer who discovers at the three-month mark that the 'institutional knowledge' left with the previous chief is the supply officer who writes a limiting endorsement on the transfer evaluation.
  • Signing the annual financial management certification without personally reviewing the supporting documentation.
    The financial management certification is a personal attestation of compliance. The LSCS who signs based on the LS1's representation that the documentation is complete — without verifying — is the LSCS who discovers at the ADA review that the LS1 missed three obligation entries and the certification was inaccurate. The investigation does not care that the LSCS trusted her subordinate; it cares that the LSCS signed a certification that was not supported by the documentation she was required to review.

Career Decisions at This Rank

  • Retirement timing — twenty years or continue to the E-9 pinnacle and beyond
    The retirement math under BRS or High-3 is straightforward: the pension percentage at twenty years versus the additional base pay and benefits accumulated by staying to twenty-two or twenty-five. But the financial math is not the only variable. The LSCS who is tracking toward LSCM selection and who has a realistic shot at the command master chief billet has a different calculus than the LSCS whose chief career peaked at a single-platform supply department. The honest question is: what does staying accomplish that leaving at twenty does not, and does the answer justify the additional obligated service? The LSCS who answers this question deliberately — not reactively, not based on whether she has a post-service job lined up yet — makes the decision on the right terms.
  • GS-civilian financial management career versus private-sector supply chain leadership
    The LSCS/LSCM who separates has two primary civilian career paths: DoD civilian financial management (GS-1101, GS-1105, GS-0501 series, entry at GS-12 or GS-13 depending on degree and experience match) and private-sector supply chain leadership (director of logistics, supply chain manager, financial controller roles at defense contractors, commercial supply chains, or military-adjacent nonprofits). The DoD civilian path has the veteran preference, the pension stacking option, and the continuity with the LS rating's procedural environment. The private-sector path has higher salary ceiling potential, more geographic flexibility, and more diverse industry exposure. Neither is wrong; both require deliberate preparation before the retirement date. The LSCS who arrives at terminal leave with a prepared GS resume, active civilian credentials (CPA, CPIM, CLT), and two concrete job leads in hand is the one who finds the transition smooth. The one who assumes the experience sells itself without a prepared resume discovers that federal hiring is a process, not a recognition.
  • Post-service education — finish the degree before separation or use post-9/11 GI Bill after
    The Post-9/11 GI Bill provides 36 months of education benefits at the housing allowance rate for full-time enrollment. An LSCS who separates at twenty years with 36 months of GI Bill available can complete a master's degree in accounting, supply chain management, or public administration at the housing allowance rate — which in most university markets covers tuition and living costs with some margin. The LSCS who uses active-duty Tuition Assistance to finish a bachelor's degree before separation and uses the GI Bill for a master's after separation has maximized both benefits. Plan the education sequence before the retirement date, not after.

How the Seat Varies by Unit Type

  • Major combatant or large amphibious ship — LSCS as the supply department's senior enlisted leader
    The LSCS on an aircraft carrier or major amphibious ship (LHD, LHA) is running the senior enlisted financial management function for a supply department with multiple divisions, multiple chiefs, and a financial management program that processes millions in annual obligations. The operational visibility is complete and the supply officer who has a strong LSCS can rely on the department's financial management operating correctly without her daily supervision.
  • NAVSUP command or Fleet Logistics Center — LSCS as institutional policy advisor
    The LSCS at NAVSUP Fleet Logistics Center Norfolk, FLC Pearl Harbor, or NAVSUP WSS Mechanicsburg is advising the commanding officer on the workforce readiness of the LS rating personnel assigned to a command that manages the Navy's fleet-wide supply chain. The financial management and contracting programs at FLCs are the backbone of the Navy's supply accountability system. The LSCS here is influencing rating-wide policy in ways that no single-ship tour can match.
  • Command Master Chief billet (LSCM) — CMC on any ship, installation, or major command
    The LSCM who serves as a command master chief is the CO's senior enlisted advisor for the entire command — not just the supply department. The LSC rating background provides the institutional financial management depth, but the CMC role requires advisory competency across all enlisted ratings' concerns: technical training, retention, personal readiness, legal proceedings, command climate. The LSCM who carries the LS rating's financial management credibility into the CMC role is adding a specific technical depth that makes her advisory function more complete — because the CO knows the LSCM can speak to the supply department's program from personal authority, not just from the LSC's briefing.

What Good Looks Like at This Rank

The good LSCS is the senior enlisted leader whose name the supply corps flag officer uses when describing what a well-run supply department's senior chief looks like. Her annual financial management certifications are clean — not because the NAVSUP district has not looked closely, but because the LSCS built the documentation standard that the district's checklist was written to require. The supply management assistance visits come back 'no material findings' not because the visiting team was lenient, but because the LSCS conducted a pre-visit self-review a month before the team arrived and resolved every procedural gap with a documented corrective action. The chiefs she developed — the LS1s who became LSCs under her watch — carry forward a specific, observable financial management standard: obligation ledgers that are reconciled weekly, GPC programs that pass audit reviews, supply management assistance visits that do not generate material findings. The LS2 who worked for the LSCS as an LS3 describes her ten years later as 'the one who showed me what financial management accountability actually looks like in practice.' At the LSCM level, the Command Master Chief's value to the commanding officer is measured in the CO's confidence that the enlisted force's most important concerns are reaching the CO's desk through the CMC — unfiltered, accurate, and accompanied by the CMC's honest assessment of what the command should do about them. The LSCM who has the goat locker's trust and the CO's confidence simultaneously is the master chief doing the job. The one who has the CO's favor without the goat locker's trust is an administrator, not a leader. The one who has the goat locker's trust without the CO's confidence is not yet doing the advisory job completely. Both together is the standard — and the LSCM who achieves both sustains them over a two-to-three-year tour that leaves the command's enlisted force stronger than it was when she reported.

Preview — The Next Rank

There is no next paygrade after LSCM. The terminal E-9 is the end of the military advancement track. What comes next is the legacy — in the chiefs the LSCM produced, in the financial management standards she established, in the commands she left stronger than she found them, and in the civilian career she built deliberately while on active duty so that the transition is a continuation, not a restart. The post-service civilian phase for the LSCM is a twenty-plus-year financial management and logistics leadership career with a foundation that most civilian peers cannot replicate: two decades of appropriated-funds accountability at the highest enlisted level, a network of senior government and military contacts built over a career, and the specific, hard-to-fake credential of having run a Navy supply department's financial management program through multiple NAVSUP audits without a material finding. The LSCM who leaves active service at maximum readiness — degree in hand, civilian credential current, GS-resume prepared, job leads identified — is the one who describes the transition as 'the day I started my second career.' The one who waits until terminal leave to think about what comes next discovers that the transition takes longer than the retirement ceremony made it seem. The most important thing the LSCM can do in the final year of active service is not preparatory for herself — it is mentorship for the LSCS who will replace her. Write the procedures manual that transfers the institutional knowledge. Introduce the relieving LSCS to the TYCOM financial staff, the NAVSUP district representative, and the supply officers who will shape the supply department's next three years. Hand over a department that runs better because of your tour — and a supply community that has two or three LSC-candidates building toward chief selection because you invested in them deliberately. That is the LSCM's final performance review. It is written by the sailors who continue after you detach.
FAQ

LS E8-E9 — Frequently Asked Questions

Q01What does a E8-E9 LS (Logistics Specialist) actually do?
As LSCS or LSCM you run the senior enlisted supply and logistics posture for a large-ship or amphibious supply department, a fleet logistics command, a NAVSUP field activity, a TYCOM staff logistics cell, or — where the path opens — a Command Master Chief (CMC) seat at a supply or logistics command.
Q02What's the most important thing to know as a E8-E9 LS?
LSCS/LSCM (E-8/E-9) — senior chief or master chief logistics specialist — is where the supply department's financial management legacy lives and where the Navy's institutional supply chain knowledge is concentrated.
Q03What does a typical day look like for a E8-E9 LS?
Time-blocked day at the E8-E9 LS rank tier: 0500-0600 Wake up. LSCS: review the financial management calendar for the day and the command's operational schedule for anything that touches supply department readiness. LSCM: review the command's plan of the day and any overnight message traffic that affects the enlisted force — personnel actions, operational changes, safety incidents, 0600-0700 PT. The LSCS/LSCM who maintains physical standards in front of the force demonstrates that standards do not diminish with seniority, 0700-0800 Hygiene, chow. Message traffic review complete.…
Q04What mistakes get E8-E9 LS soldiers fired or relieved?
Treating the LSCS or LSCM role as an administrative management function rather than a leadership and advisory function. The senior chief who is doing the chief's job — managing transactions, running the obligation ledger, covering the sections — has not transitioned to senior chief. The senior chief's job is to build the chiefs who manage the transactions and run the ledger;…
Q05What career decisions matter most at the E8-E9 LS rank tier?
Retirement timing — twenty years or continue to the E-9 pinnacle and beyond — The retirement math under BRS or High-3 is straightforward: the pension percentage at twenty years versus the additional base pay and benefits accumulated by staying to twenty-two or twenty-five. But the financial math is not the only variable. The LSCS who is tracking toward LSCM selection and who has a realistic shot at the command master chief billet has a different calculus than the LSCS whose chief career peaked at a single-platform supply department.…
Q06What's next after E8-E9 for a LS (Logistics Specialist) in the Navy?
There is no next paygrade after LSCM.
Q07What manuals and regulations does a E8-E9 LS need to know cold?
NAVSUP Publication 485 — Supply Afloat (full volume); you are quoted from it more often than you quote it, and the LSC comes to you when the policy question reaches the limit of the chapter.; NAVSUP P-723 — Logistics Specialist Rate Training Manual; the management and accountability framework you brief from at the senior-enlisted level.; FAR 48 CFR and DFARS; DoD Financial Management Regulation,…

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