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PRE7

Aircrew Survival Equipmentman

E-7 (Sergeant First Class) · Navy

E1–E3E-4E-5E-6E-7E8–E9
HEADS UP

Making Chief is the line. You crossed from the technician who ensures inspections are done correctly to the leader who owns whether the entire shop believes — every day, not just during inspections — that the life-safety standard is real and non-negotiable. The deckplate reads you. Not your words, not your policy briefs: your behavior on a routine Tuesday when no one is watching. That is the only Chief standard that matters in a rate where a mistake kills an aviator.

The Honest MOS Read
PRC is the LCPO of the PR shop. The accountability shift from PR1 LPO to Chief is larger than the rank difference suggests, and the PR rate's small community size makes it more visible than most. As LCPO of a fleet squadron, training command, or FRC PR branch, you own the human system that produces the inspection record — the culture of bench discipline, the training program that qualifies junior PRs, the eEVAL record that shapes the PR2s and PR3s who will be running shops 10 years from now, and the relationship with the maintenance officer and flight-line officer that determines whether the command's ALSE program is a credible life-safety system or a paperwork exercise. The Chief's Mess is the first new accountability that PRCs learn is real, not ceremonial. In a small rate the goat locker connects PRs across commands in ways that the eEVAL cycle does not. The PRC at a CVN strike-fighter squadron who cuts the documentation standard when the tempo is high will hear about it from the PRC at the next command — not through an official report, but through the informal senior enlisted network that moves faster than the detailing system. The converse is also true: a PRC whose shop produced clean ISIC results across a deployment and developed two PR2 advancement selectees in a single year has a reputation in the PR community that preceded the service record. The inspection program management at PRC level goes beyond the operational inspection calendar. The LCPO owns the command's ALSE program compliance with OPNAVINST 13432.1 — the qualification program, the aircrew personal equipment record system, the discrepancy disposition chain, the connection to the Type Commander's safety survey process. When the CNAF safety survey team arrives, the LCPO is the primary point of contact — not the PR1, not the maintenance officer. The survey team is reading whether the ALSE program is run by a Chief who owns it or a Chief who manages the PR1 who owns it. There is a difference and the team identifies it quickly. The developmental responsibility at PRC is the most consequential accountability in the rate's pipeline. The PRCs who develop PR2s and PR3s into advanced-NEC-qualified technicians, PR1 LPO candidates, and ultimately Chief candidates are the ones building the rate's future capability. A PRC who runs a tight shop but produces no advancement selectees and no NEC qualifications in a two-year LCPO tour has spent the Navy's investment on the shop's current readiness without building the next generation. The senior Chief board — and the PRC's own Senior Chief board packet — reads both.
Career Arc
  • 01CPO Academy transition: complete the CPO Academy / initiation process and stand as a Chief in the mess — the anchors change the accountability framework immediately, not on a ramp.
  • 02First LCPO tour: own the ALSE program compliance, the inspection calendar, the training program, and the eEVAL record from the first week — the PR1 LPO ran the shop; the PRC owns whether the shop is right.
  • 03ISIC safety survey or periodic inspection under LCPO tenure: the primary performance evaluation of the PRC tour — the shop's record either speaks for itself or explains itself.
  • 04Senior Chief board packet construction: the CMC starts the conversation early; the senior enlisted network knows the PRC's record before the formal packet is submitted.
  • 05Career-broadening tour consideration: detailer billet at NPC enlisted aviation community, CPO Academy cadre, TYCOM staff billet, or a recruiting command senior enlisted role — the Senior Chief board reads at least one broadening tour on the Chief's record.
  • 06Senior Enlisted Academy (SEA) application: the SEA nomination at Newport RI is the institutional leadership gate for the Senior Chief and Master Chief track; apply in the first 18 months of the Chief tour, not after the Senior Chief board cycle opens.
Common Screwups
  • ×A CNAF safety survey finding traced to an ALSE program deficiency under the LCPO's management — lapses in the qualification program, out-of-date periodic inspections, or documentation failures in the aircrew personal equipment records. The LCPO is the program manager; a survey finding goes in the Chief's fitness report and the Senior Chief board reads it.
  • ×Treating the Chief's Mess as a social benefit rather than a leadership platform. The Chief who is present in the mess in rank only — not mentoring, not enforcing the mess's professional standards, not contributing to the community's development discussions — is visible to the other Chiefs and visible to the CMC. The Senior Chief board reads the fitness report summary that the CMC writes, and that summary reflects whether the Chief stood their watch in the mess.
  • ×Letting a personal legal, financial, or conduct incident erode the security clearance or the command's trust. At PRC level with LCPO authority over pyrotechnic and explosive ordnance handling, a clearance issue is an immediate grounding event and may not be recoverable in the remaining career window.
  • ×Missing the Senior Chief board cycle due to an incomplete fitness report record or a poorly-timed career-broadening tour that produced a thin evaluation. The Senior Chief board window is competitive in every PR cycle; a missed cycle at the wrong time sets the career back two to three years.
  • ×Going to the maintenance officer, flight-deck officer, or CO to resolve a shop disagreement before the chain is properly worked. The wardroom knows when a Chief goes around the LCPO chain; the goat locker hears about it the same day. The disagreement belongs in the office, and the Chief walks out aligned with the command's position.

A Day in the Life

  • 0500-0530Wake. Phone check — overnight ALSE equipment issues, any emergent discrepancy, duty section status. As LCPO the first call goes to you when something life-safety related hits the overnight log.
  • 0530-0630Personal PT. PRT Excellent target. The LCPO who leads the command run in the front and doesn't need to be chased is the LCPO the CMC references positively in the fitness report.
  • 0630-0700Hygiene and uniform. Review the shop status, any open discrepancies, and the day's flight schedule before walking in. The LCPO who walks into morning quarters already knowing the shop's current state is the LCPO the PR1 trusts with a direct operational question.
  • 0700-0730Morning quarters — LCPO brief to the division or observation of the PR1's brief. The LCPO's role at morning quarters shifts to oversight and the occasional direct correction; the PR1 LPO runs the brief.
  • 0730-0800Maintenance production meeting or MO brief on open discrepancies, shop readiness status, and any ALSE program actions outstanding. The LCPO speaks for the shop in command-level maintenance forums.
  • 0800-1000Shop walk — observe one inspection in progress, review the inspection log, verify the discrepancy tag currency, check tool control status. The LCPO's shop walk is not supervision; it is the oversight that keeps the system honest.
  • 1000-1130Administrative work — eEVAL drafts, fitness report inputs, career counseling appointments, Chief board packet work (Senior Chief track), SEA nomination documentation.
  • 1130-1230Lunch. Check in with the PR1 on any morning issues. The LCPO should never be the last to know about a shop concern.
  • 1230-1500ALSE program management — qualification program status check, personal equipment record audit sample, open ISIC or CNAF survey action items, Type Commander reporting requirements.
  • 1500-1600Chief's Mess obligations — mess meeting, mentoring session with a junior Chief, administrative contribution to the mess's professional development program.
  • 1600-1700Senior Chief board packet and SEA preparation work, or CPO 365 / SEA reading list time.
  • 1700-2200Personal time, family, or duty section. The LCPO who takes the on-call function seriously answers the overnight call when the duty PR has a question that requires LCPO authority.

Weekly Cadence

The PRC's week is organized around two accountability tracks that never pause: the shop's operational readiness and the personnel development pipeline. Monday: shop status brief from the PR1 LPO — inspection calendar current, discrepancy status, any aircrew personal equipment issues from weekend flight ops. The LCPO's Monday question is 'what do you need from me this week?' not 'what did you do last week?' Tuesday through Thursday: shop oversight visits, maintenance production meeting attendance, career counseling appointments with junior PRs, eEVAL or fitness report writing. Friday: weekly log and bench audit verification — the LCPO personally reviews the PR1's audit completion, not just the verbal brief. The Chief's Mess runs a separate schedule that the LCPO must contribute to without allowing it to crowd out the shop obligations. Mess meetings, professional development sessions, mentoring of junior Chiefs — these are real obligations of the anchors, not electives. The LCPO who is always 'too busy with the shop' to contribute to the mess is the LCPO whose fitness report summary includes language about 'focus on technical detail at the expense of broader leadership engagement.' Both tracks are required. The LCPO who manages both successfully is the one the CMC describes as 'ready now' for the next grade. The most important single weekly action for a PRC is the Friday log review. Not the PR1's verbal brief — the actual log. The LCPO who reviews the inspection log entries, checks the sequence of dates, verifies the discrepancy tags are current, and confirms the tool reconciliation is signed off is the LCPO who will not be surprised by the CNAF survey team's first 30 minutes. In a shop where the LCPO has reviewed the log every Friday for two years, the survey is a non-event.

Key Skills — How to Drill Each

  1. 01
    Own the command's ALSE program compliance with OPNAVINST 13432.1 — qualification program current, inspection calendar at 100%, aircrew personal equipment records accurate and current.
    The PRC's ALSE program management standard is: nothing is out of date at any no-notice check, the qualification program produces newly qualified inspectors on the LCPO's schedule, and every aircrew member's personal equipment record is accurate and signed. Build the program management as a system — the master qualification matrix, the inspection calendar, the personal equipment record database — rather than as a pile of individual files the LCPO monitors personally. The PR1 LPO owns the daily execution; the LCPO owns the system and verifies the system's integrity through weekly audits and monthly deep-checks.
  2. 02
    Develop the PR1 LPO as a Chief-board-competitive candidate — shape the eEVAL narrative, the developmental assignments, and the community visibility that the board reads.
    The PRC who develops a PR1 into a Chief selectee has produced the highest-value contribution the rate asks of a PRC. That development is not accidental — it requires deliberate assignment of the LPO scope that builds a Chief-board narrative (running a real inspection program through an ISIC visit, managing an aircrew equipment personal records system, briefing the MO, mentoring junior PRs to advancement), and it requires the PRC to write the eEVAL with a narrative that names what the PR1 did rather than what quality tier their performance was. Three months before the Chief board cycle, the PRC and the PR1 review the record together and identify what is missing — and the PRC makes the assignment that fills the gap.
  3. 03
    Brief the command's ALSE program posture to the CO, the XO, or the air wing commander — the technical assessment in command-leadership language.
    The CO does not need the NAVAIR 13-1-6 procedure number. The CO needs to know: is every aircrew member's survival equipment airworthy and current? Are there any systemic risks in the current inventory? Is the qualification program producing inspectors at the rate the command needs? Are there any ISIC or CNAF survey action items outstanding? Brief those four things clearly, with numbers, and with a timeline for any open items. The LCPO who can give the CO a straight yes/no on the first question without qualification is the LCPO the CO stops worrying about.
  4. 04
    Run a real Chief's Mess mentoring program for the junior PRs — career counseling, commissioning program guidance, post-Navy credential planning.
    Every PR junior and mid-grade sailor in the shop deserves a career conversation with the LCPO at least twice per year: where the record stands, what the next advancement cycle requires, whether the NEC pipeline is on track, and what the post-Navy market looks like for a PR with their credential set. The PRC who runs these conversations from current information — current NEC NAVADMIN, current BIB, current FAA certification pathway — and follows up on the commitments made in the meeting is the LCPO whose sailors advance and separate with options.
  5. 05
    Manage a real-world ALSE equipment discrepancy that escalates above shop-level authority — including the fleet-safety message notification if warranted.
    When a PR shop finds a systemic deficiency — the same condition across multiple assemblies from the same lot, a component that is failing at an unexpected rate, a NAVAIR 13-1-6 procedure that the in-service evidence suggests is insufficient — the LCPO's job is to escalate correctly and quickly. The chain is: document the finding completely, brief the maintenance officer the same day, notify the TYCOM ALSE safety officer, and follow the applicable NAVAIR or CNAF safety reporting requirement. The PRC who contains a systemic finding within the shop because 'it might just be this batch' and is later discovered to have known about the pattern is the PRC at the center of the fleet safety investigation.

Manuals & References — What Chapters Matter

  • OPNAVINST 13432.1 series — ALSE Program, full text at LCPO management level
    At PRC level this instruction is the program management authority. Know the LCPO's responsibilities, the qualification program management requirements, the Type Commander reporting chain, and the CNAF safety survey preparation checklist. The CNAF survey team will ask the LCPO about the program structure, not just the inspection log.
  • NAVAIR 13-1-6 series — authorization level matrix across the shop's full inventory, including depot referral criteria
    The LCPO needs to know at a glance which corrective actions are within the shop's organizational-level authority and which require FRC or depot referral. The PRC who has to look up the authorization level during a maintenance production brief with the MO is not running the ALSE program at LCPO depth.
  • CPO 365 reading list, the Chief Petty Officer Heritage Pamphlet, and the Senior Enlisted Academy reading list
    The PRC who has read the SEA reading list before attending SEA is the PRC who gets the most out of the Newport residency. The reading list covers naval history, strategic leadership, and joint force integration at a level that the deckplate focus of the LCPO tour does not naturally develop. Read it before the nomination is submitted.
  • MILPERSMAN — full at-level competency for LCPO authority: advancement, NJP, administrative separation, retention, and the command's legal officer relationship
    At PRC LCPO level the MILPERSMAN is a working reference, not a background document. The LCPO who does not know the UCMJ Article 15 process, the administrative separation criteria, and the retention incentive options is the LCPO who gives wrong preliminary guidance to a junior PR in trouble and creates a more complicated situation for the command.
  • Current NEC source-rating NAVADMIN and the Navy COOL PR rate credential matrix
    The PRC who mentors junior PRs on NEC pipelines and post-Navy credentials needs current information. Pull the current NAVADMIN before every career counseling session — codes and quotas change annually, and advice based on last year's pipeline is advice based on the wrong data.

Standards — How to Hit Each

  • Zero CNAF or ISIC safety survey findings traced to ALSE program management during the LCPO tour.
    The weekly bench audit by the PR1 LPO is the mechanism; the LCPO's weekly verification of the LPO's audit is the backstop. The LCPO who personally reviews the discrepancy log and the inspection calendar weekly — not monthly, not 'when something looks off' — will not be surprised by a survey team finding. The shop that produces clean survey results does so because the standard is enforced 52 weeks a year, not because the pre-survey sprint was thorough.
  • Senior Chief board packet complete and submitted on the first eligible cycle with a fitness report record the board can endorse without reservations.
    Work backward from the board submission deadline and identify what is missing from the record 18 months before the first eligible cycle. Missing: broadening tour? Apply for a CPO Academy cadre or NPC detailer billet now. Missing: SEA? Submit the nomination packet this cycle. Missing: pipeline output? Assign the PR1 a developmental action that produces an advancement selectee before the fitness report is written. The Senior Chief board reads the whole career — not just the last tour.
  • Pipeline producing at least one Chief board selectee or one advanced NEC completion per LCPO tour.
    Name the sailor. The PRC who can walk into the Senior Chief board interview and say 'PR1 Jones made Chief in my shop and PR2 Smith completed the ejection seat specialist NEC under my LCPO tour' has a developmental narrative that the board endorses. The PRC who has to say 'we had a very clean inspection record' has a technical narrative and a thin leadership narrative. Both matter; both need to be present.
  • PRT Excellent or Outstanding, BCA in standard, all warfare qualifications and NEC currency maintained.
    The Chief who is not running at Excellent PRT is the Chief the CMC notices in the command run and notes in the fitness report section on personal commitment. The PRC who owns personal fitness as a professional standard — not as an administrative requirement — is the one the CMC describes in the fitness report as 'leads from the front' rather than 'maintains standards.'

Technical Mistakes — Concrete Consequences

  • Trusting the PR1 LPO's weekly brief without personally verifying the inspection log and discrepancy status.
    The LCPO who takes the LPO's verbal status report without walking the bench and reviewing the log is the LCPO who gets surprised by the CNAF survey team. A LPO who has been managing paperwork rather than discipline will produce a clean verbal brief and a problematic inspection record. The LCPO's verification visit is not a distrust signal — it is the oversight structure the ALSE program requires at every level.
  • Treating the SEA nomination as an option rather than a career requirement for the Senior Chief track.
    The Senior Chief board reads the SEA credential. A PRC who deferred SEA for operational reasons once, then twice, then missed the competitive window is the PRC who competes for Senior Chief without the institutional leadership credential that the board uses to differentiate competitive candidates. The SEA rotation is inconvenient. The cost of missing the Senior Chief slate is measured in years.
  • Allowing a junior PR's significant conduct or personal issue to stay at the shop level rather than routing through the command chain when it crosses the NJP threshold.
    The LCPO who tries to manage a junior PR's conduct issue informally when it meets the UCMJ threshold has taken on the legal and command-accountability risk of the matter. If the issue surfaces later — through a complaint, a security clearance review, or a repeat incident — the LCPO's informal management is the finding, not just the original incident. The channel exists; use it.
  • Writing a fitness report for the PR1 LPO that is accurate on the facts but does not build the Chief-board narrative.
    A fitness report that says 'competent LPO who maintained shop readiness' instead of naming what the LPO actually accomplished — specific inspections, specific sailors advanced, specific ISIC results — is a fitness report that does not compete at the Chief board. The LCPO is the author; the narrative is in the LCPO's hands. A PR1 who should have made Chief at this cycle and did not, because the fitness report was generic, is a development failure that belongs to the LCPO.
  • Failing to connect a pattern of equipment discrepancies across multiple items to the TYCOM safety reporting chain.
    The LCPO who finds two parachute assemblies from the same lot with the same condition issue and treats them as individual findings without notifying the TYCOM ALSE officer has missed a fleet-safety signal. If the condition appears at a third command and results in an equipment failure, the investigation will identify every command that found the condition and determine whether the reporting chain was used. 'We thought it was isolated' is not the answer the investigation wants.

Career Decisions at This Rank

  • First LCPO tour command type — CVN strike-fighter squadron versus training command versus FRC branch versus broadening billet.
    The first LCPO tour shapes the Senior Chief board narrative. A CVN strike-fighter LCPO tour is the highest-tempo, highest-accountability version of the job — deployed inspection management, aircrew personal equipment records across a full squadron, CNAF safety survey results that the air wing commander reads. The fitness report from a deployed CVN PR LCPO tour is among the loudest operational reads at the Senior Chief board in the rate. A training command LCPO tour builds program management depth and throughput volume. An FRC LCPO tour builds technical depth at the depot level. Most Senior Chief-competitive records combine an operational LCPO tour with a career-broadening tour — the sequence matters less than covering both.
  • Senior Enlisted Academy (SEA) timing — apply early in the Chief tour or defer for operational reasons.
    Apply early. The SEA nomination window at Newport RI runs through the senior enlisted leadership nomination chain, and the competition is real. The PRC who applies in the first 18 months of the Chief tour has the most competitive window and the most time to recover if the first nomination is not selected. The one who defers for a deployment or a pre-inspection surge has good operational reasons and a thin SEA credential at the Senior Chief board. The board reads both the operational record and the institutional leadership credential — both need to be present.
  • Career-broadening tour nomination — detailer at NPC, CPO Academy cadre, TYCOM staff, recruiting command senior enlisted.
    The Senior Chief board reads a broadening tour as the institutional-leadership development evidence that LCPO tenure alone does not produce. NPC detailer for the aviation enlisted community is the most connected broadening tour — every billet, every community manager, every board reader is a direct relationship, and the alumni network shapes senior enlisted trajectories for a decade. CPO Academy cadre is the professional-development tour. TYCOM staff is the strategic policy tour. Recruiting command senior leadership is the community-visibility tour. The PRC who chooses a broadening tour based on which type best fills the narrative gap in the current record — rather than which is most convenient — is the one the Senior Chief board reads as institutionally self-aware.

How the Seat Varies by Unit Type

  • CVN strike-fighter squadron (deployed air wing) — PRC LCPO
    The defining LCPO tour in the rate. A PRC LCPO running the PR shop for a deployed strike-fighter squadron manages inspection and qualification accountability for every aircrew member's survival equipment through a 7-9 month deployment, two ISIC visits, and a CNAF safety survey. The operational urgency is genuine — an aircraft launches every 90 seconds during cyclic ops, and the aircrew in the jets represent the ALSE program's daily performance evaluation. The fitness report from this tour is weighted heavily at the Senior Chief board because the operational accountability is unambiguous.
  • Training command (NAS Pensacola area or equivalent) — PRC LCPO
    The program management LCPO tour. A training command PR shop processes higher throughput of student aviator equipment fits than any other command type — new aviators entering the fleet pipeline need equipment fits, personal equipment records established, and initial ALSE qualification. The LCPO at a training command is building the program management skills (qualification tracking at scale, throughput planning, instructional culture) that translate directly to the FRC and TYCOM staff billets. The Senior Chief board narrative from a training command LCPO tour is strong on program development; it benefits from a prior operational deployment tour.
  • FRC survival equipment branch — PRC LCPO or branch chief
    The production management LCPO tour at depot level. The PRC LCPO at an FRC manages a production schedule of overhaul, deep inspection, and tech directive compliance work — not an operational flight schedule. The accountability is the quality of the work leaving the facility that goes back to fleet squadrons; the items the FRC overhauls are the same ones the CVN PR shop inspects on a 7-month deployment. The depth of technical knowledge at LCPO level is exceptional. The Senior Chief board narrative needs to explicitly connect the depot work to the fleet life-safety accountability to read as operational depth rather than production management.

What Good Looks Like at This Rank

The high-performing PRC is recognized in the PR community before the Senior Chief board meets. The senior enlisted network in a small rate moves information about LCPO performance faster than the fitness report cycle — the CNAF safety survey team members talk to each other, the ISIC inspection teams compare notes, and the NPC enlisted detailer for the PR rate knows which LCPOs produce clean programs and advancing sailors without being told. At the deckplate level the PRC's behavior during a normal week defines the shop's culture more than any brief or policy statement. The PRC who personally reviews the inspection log on Friday, who attends one bench inspection per week not to supervise but to observe and engage, and who mentors the PR1 LPO on the eEVAL narrative in real time — that behavior is what the junior PRs remember when they are running their own shops ten years later. The culture of a PR shop is set by what the LCPO does when no inspection is pending. The senior enlisted network outside the shop is the other axis. The good PRC is present at CPO Mess events, contributes to the goat locker's professional discussions, mentors junior Chiefs in the mess who are early in their LCPO tours, and represents the mess in the wardroom relationship with the maintenance officer and the CO. The PRC who is a Chief in name and a shop technician in practice — who never develops the goat locker relationships and never contributes to the mess's leadership culture — produces a thin Senior Chief board package regardless of how clean the inspection record is.

Preview — The Next Rank

Senior Chief (PRCS, E-8) is where the accountability expands beyond the shop to the community. As a Senior Chief you are no longer managing a PR division — you are a senior voice in the PR rate's personnel and program development, you may be assigned as a Command Senior Enlisted Leader (CSEL) or in a TYCOM staff or force-level role, and the junior Chiefs in the goat locker are watching whether you lead from the front of the hard questions or the back of them. The technical mastery that made Chief is assumed; the Senior Chief's credential is institutional leadership — whether you understand the rate's place in the aviation safety system at the enterprise level, not just the shop level.
FAQ

PR E7 — Frequently Asked Questions

Q01What does a E7 PR (Aircrew Survival Equipmentman) actually do?
The job changes more between PR1 and PRC than at any other promotion in the rate.
Q02What's the most important thing to know as a E7 PR?
Making Chief is the line.
Q03What does a typical day look like for a E7 PR?
Time-blocked day at the E7 PR rank tier: 0500-0530 Wake. Phone check — overnight ALSE equipment issues, any emergent discrepancy, duty section status. As LCPO the first call goes to you when something life-safety related hits the overnight log, 0530-0630 Personal PT. PRT Excellent target. The LCPO who leads the command run in the front and doesn't need to be chased is the LCPO the CMC references positively in the fitness report, 0630-0700 Hygiene and uniform. Review the shop status, any open discrepancies, and the day's flight schedule before walking in.…
Q04What mistakes get E7 PR soldiers fired or relieved?
A CNAF safety survey finding traced to an ALSE program deficiency under the LCPO's management — lapses in the qualification program, out-of-date periodic inspections, or documentation failures in the aircrew personal equipment records. The LCPO is the program manager; a survey finding goes in the Chief's fitness report and the Senior Chief board reads it; Treating the Chief's Mess as a social benefit rather than a leadership platform.…
Q05What career decisions matter most at the E7 PR rank tier?
First LCPO tour command type — CVN strike-fighter squadron versus training command versus FRC branch versus broadening billet — The first LCPO tour shapes the Senior Chief board narrative. A CVN strike-fighter LCPO tour is the highest-tempo, highest-accountability version of the job — deployed inspection management, aircrew personal equipment records across a full squadron, CNAF safety survey results that the air wing commander reads. The fitness report from a deployed CVN PR LCPO tour is among the loudest operational reads at the Senior Chief board in the rate.…
Q06What's next after E7 for a PR (Aircrew Survival Equipmentman) in the Navy?
Senior Chief (PRCS, E-8) is where the accountability expands beyond the shop to the community.
Q07What manuals and regulations does a E7 PR need to know cold?
NAVAIR 13-1-6 series — full survival equipment technical library; you are the LCPO the PR2s and PR1s come to with the policy and TM question.; OPNAVINST 13432.1 series — Survival Equipment Program; you are now the command's senior interpreter of the program the instruction establishes.; OPNAVINST 4790 series (NAMP) — QA provisions, tool control, and documentation standards you enforce across the shop.

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