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SWE8-E9

Steelworker

E-8 to E-9 (Senior NCO) · Navy

E1–E3E-4E-5E-6E-7E8–E9
HEADS UP

As SWCS or SWCM you are the senior enlisted structural voice for the battalion, the group, or the NAVFAC command. The work is no longer about executing a project phase — it is about ensuring the entire SW rate is capable, qualified, and credentialed to execute what the Navy needs built next year, the year after that, and the decade beyond your retirement. Start the post-Navy plan 24-36 months before your projected rotation date, not at terminal leave. The civilian construction market values your record; give it something specific to value.

The Honest MOS Read
You are the institutional memory of the SW rate in the NMCB community. Not metaphorically — literally. The structural knowledge, the NAVFAC project execution experience, the AWS D1.1 QC program management, the CEC officer relationship that took years to build: these are not things the Navy can replicate from a manual or a course. They live in the senior chief and master chief SW community, and when those people retire, that institutional memory leaves unless they have built the SWC and SW1 cadre that carries it forward. As SWCS or SWCM you run the senior enlisted construction posture for the command — up to Command Master Chief on an NMCB, which puts you at the battalion command team table alongside the commanding officer, executive officer, and command master chief for every significant decision about the enlisted climate, the mission, and the construction readiness of the unit. The construction-specific authority you carry is the advisory role to the CEC officers who make the structural decisions: when you tell the commodore that the NMCB's current SW qualification profile cannot execute the proposed construction scope, that assessment is the one the commodore acts on. It has to be right. The eEVAL output at SWCS/SWCM is the slate for the next generation of SW chiefs. The evaluations you write for SWC candidates determine which petty officers first class become chiefs and which do not. That responsibility is not administrative — it is the most consequential thing you do in the rate. The chief who was passed over because the SWCS wrote a generic evaluation that did not make the case specifically enough is a failure mode the senior chief should be unwilling to accept. The post-Navy plan is not a retirement afterthought at this paygrade. The civilian construction sector understands what a SWCS or SWCM with 24-28 years of NAVFAC structural project execution means: a combination of technical depth, QC program management experience, and government-client familiarity that commands a mid-to-senior-level salary in construction management or structural QC inspection. The AWS CWI, OSHA 30, construction management credentials, and federal civilian application process are all better handled while still on active duty than after retirement when the bandwidth narrows. Plan the transition the same way you planned a deployment — with a project schedule, milestones, and accountability.
Career Arc
  • 01Senior Enlisted Academy (SEA) fellowship at Naval War College Newport: the senior-enlisted PME that is expected of SWCS and required before competing for command CMC. The SEA is not a reward; it is the professional development minimum for the senior-enlisted leader operating at flag-officer advisory level.
  • 02SWCS or SWCM assignment to NMCB command team, NCG/NCR staff, or NAVFAC command senior enlisted: each of these billets carries a different scope, and each builds a different piece of the final service record.
  • 03Chief selection board panel participation: the senior enlisted leader who has sat on selection boards brings a perspective to the SW community's advancement process that no amount of mentoring replaces. The first board panel assignment is the professional benchmark that separates the senior chief in the rate from the senior chief managing a section.
  • 04Command Master Chief possibility: the SWCM who has built a clean command-team record across multiple NMCB deployments and one staff tour is competitive for CMC — the highest enlisted position in the Navy command structure, with responsibilities that extend well beyond the SW rate into every enlisted community in the command.
  • 05Post-Navy credential finalization: AWS CWI completed if not already done, OSHA 30 documentation, federal civilian application submitted, industry contacts built. This work happens during the final tour, not during terminal leave.
  • 06Retirement preparation and transition: TA-21 completed, TAPS attended, final eEVAL cycle written for the SW community's next generation of chiefs. The last thing you do in the Navy is build the bench that will do the job when you are gone.
Common Screwups
  • ×Integrity failure at the senior-enlisted level — falsified documentation, misrepresented readiness, protected misconduct that should have been escalated. At SWCS/SWCM the investigation does not stop at the individual; it traces through every document the senior chief signed, every endorsement written, and every personnel action supported. The SW community is small enough that a senior-chief-level integrity failure is known by every sailor in the rate within a month. There is no recovery.
  • ×Confusing the warm-up to retirement with the standard. The SWCS who starts coasting two years before his projected rotation date tells every SW in the command what the standard looks like when seniority and proximity to retirement arrive. The bench he leaves behind carries the standard he demonstrated in the final tour, not the standard he held in the first one.
  • ×Going public with disagreement with the flag officer, the commanding officer, or the NAVFAC commander. The disagreement happens in private and the SWCS walks out aligned. At this paygrade, the sailor who cannot manage the internal disagreement channel without going around it or outside it has failed the standard the senior enlisted community is specifically trusted to uphold.
  • ×Failing to write the hard eEVAL — passing through a SWCS or SWCM recommendation for a chief whose record cannot support it because the relationship is comfortable or because the chief is 'a good person.' A good person in the wrong role is still the wrong person for the role. The next selection board reads the SWCS's credibility through the pattern of evaluations — an evaluator who consistently overstates all records is an evaluator whose strong recommendations carry reduced weight.
  • ×Neglecting the post-service transition until terminal leave. The SWCM who retires without a civilian career trajectory established is the SWCM whose final tour of duty was not as well-planned as the first deployment he made as a junior petty officer. The Navy does not owe a post-retirement career; the senior enlisted leader plans it with the same rigor applied to everything else.

A Day in the Life

  • 0530Personal PT — the SWCM who stops running the standard he holds for the command is the SWCM who has started the slide. Personal fitness is not optional at senior enlisted level; it is the daily demonstration of the standard.
  • 0600-0700Battalion PT formation — SWCM visible at formation. Not necessarily leading every element, but present. The formation that knows the senior enlisted leader is watching runs differently than the one that does not.
  • 0700-0800Chow, command team sync if applicable. Review overnight reports — safety incidents, personnel issues, project anomalies that surfaced overnight. The SWCM who knows about last night's problem before the morning brief is the one who can address it before it becomes the OIC's morning surprise.
  • 0800-0900Construction department walk — senior enlisted walkthrough of the active project sites. Identify any conditions that departed from the specification or the safety standard overnight. Brief the SWCs before the CEC OIC arrives for the morning walk.
  • 0900-1100Command team engagement or administrative work. If Command Master Chief: enlisted climate management, individual counseling for high-visibility issues, CO briefing prep. If NCG/NCR staff: project review documentation, structural readiness assessment, NAVFAC tasking response.
  • 1100-1200Chief's Mess or goat locker administration — the senior enlisted leader who is not visible in the mess is not managing the mess. Thirty minutes in the goat locker every day is not optional at SWCM.
  • 1200-1300Chow with the command if no flag call. The SWCM who eats with different groups of sailors over the course of a deployment knows the climate in a way that the SWCM who eats with the same three chiefs every day does not.
  • 1300-1500Mentoring or board preparation work — SW1 Chief packet reviews, SWCS pipeline status updates, post-service transition conversations with sailors in the final 18 months of their service. This is scheduled work, not 'when I have time.'
  • 1500-1700Weekly project brief preparation, NAVFAC advisory correspondence, or command-level administrative requirements. The SWCM who handles the administrative load early in the week is not catching up on Friday.
  • 1700-1900Personal time, senior-enlisted PME reading, or flag-staff engagement if deployed to a joint task force environment. The Master Chief who stops consuming professional development content has stopped growing.
  • 1900-2100Post-retirement career development work — federal civilian application review, AWS CWI certification prep if not yet complete, industry contact maintenance. This work happens now, not during terminal leave.
  • 2100Rack. The SWCM who cannot recover and rest has a fitness problem that compounds every day.

Weekly Cadence

At SWCS/SWCM the week is defined less by the construction schedule and more by the command rhythm — the weekly battle rhythm of briefings, counseling sessions, personnel actions, and command climate work that operates on a consistent cycle regardless of project phase. The Monday command sync, the Wednesday personnel review, the Thursday all-hands brief, the Friday field day and administrative close-out: these are the recurring structure of the week, and the senior enlisted leader who executes them consistently without treating them as interruptions to the 'real' construction work is the one who manages the command climate effectively. The construction-specific elements of the week — the project brief, the site walk, the QC documentation review — continue but are managed through the SWC LCPO who reports to the SWCS. The senior chief's site walk is not a supervision walk; it is a pattern-recognition walk. The SWCS who walks the site weekly and has been walking sites for 20 years sees the deviation from the standard before the first-tour SWC does, and the conversation with the SWC that follows the walk is the mentoring that produces the next SWCM. The character of the role changes between homeport and deployment. In garrison the work is heavily administrative — board packets, pipeline management, command climate work, and pre-deployment preparation. On deployment the work shifts toward construction oversight and command advisory — the senior enlisted leader at the operational level is more visible, more directly engaged with the project execution environment, and more accessible to the junior sailors who rarely see the command senior enlisted leader in garrison.

Key Skills — How to Drill Each

  1. 01
    Run a senior-enlisted command climate across the NMCB construction department or NCG staff that produces credentialed Steelworkers, SCW completions, Chief accessions, and post-service transitions at rates above the force average.
    The command climate is a product, not a byproduct. It is built by consistent behavior across every interaction the SWCS has with every enlisted member of the command — the feedback after a site walk, the mentoring session with the SW1 whose Chief packet is marginal, the conversation with the young SWCN who is three weeks from a DUI. Every interaction either reinforces or erodes the standard. The SWCS who manages those interactions consciously over a 24-month tour builds a command climate that survives past their rotation date because the chiefs they mentored carry it forward.
  2. 02
    Brief the battalion commander, NCG commodore, or NAVFAC commander on enlisted structural readiness, safety program health, and construction capability gaps.
    The flag-level brief is not a project status brief — it is a readiness brief. The SWCS who walks into the commodore's office with the SW rate's qualification profile (welding certifications current, rigging qualifications current, WPQ records up to date, crane operator currencies), the safety record trend (near-miss frequency, recordable injury history, stop-work-order history), and the pipeline output (chiefs selected last cycle, sailors whose packages are pending) is the senior enlisted leader who earns the trust that makes the advisory role meaningful.
  3. 03
    Sit on Chief selection board panels with the discipline and confidentiality the convening authority requires.
    Selection board service is a privilege and a responsibility with specific legal requirements — the board process is confidential, the deliberations are protected, and the result is final unless administratively overturned. The SWCS who serves on a board brings the rate-specific technical knowledge to assess whether a SW petty officer first class's project record is genuine and whether the eEVAL blocks reflect the work described. That technical credibility is the reason senior enlisted leaders are assigned to selection boards.
  4. 04
    Advise the CEC community when a construction tasking exceeds the NMCB's current structural capability — process qualification gaps, crane capacity limits, specialty-trade depth.
    This is the hardest conversation the SWCS has with the wardroom — 'we cannot do what you are asking us to do with what we currently have.' The advice has to be specific: not 'we might have trouble with that' but 'the proposed schedule requires three simultaneously qualified FCAW welders and we currently have one, the specified crane capacity exceeds our organic equipment by 35 tons, and the diving-support structure NEC is not currently held by any SW in the battalion.' Specific gaps get specific resources or specific schedule adjustments. Vague concerns get vague responses.

Manuals & References — What Chapters Matter

  • AWS D1.1 — Structural Welding Code – Steel, current edition
    At SWCS/SWCM the D1.1 reference role shifts from daily project tool to institutional authority. When the NAVFAC structural engineer and the CEC commodore are in disagreement about whether a field condition requires an engineering disposition, the SWCS's reading of the applicable D1.1 provision is the senior enlisted technical input that either resolves the dispute or frames the engineering question correctly. Stay current on the edition in use — AWS revises D1.1 periodically and the changes affect prequalified joint details and inspection criteria.
  • EM 385-1-1 — USACE Safety and Health Requirements Manual, current edition
    The SWCS owns the enlisted construction safety program across the command. When the NAVFAC safety inspection finds a department-level deficiency, the finding traces to the senior enlisted leader who owns the program. Know the specific provisions that govern steel erection, rigging, and welding safety at the level the safety officer holds you accountable for — which is every level, from the individual AHA to the command's OSHA 300 log.
  • Senior Enlisted Academy (SEA) reading list, CMC / Fleet Master Chief symposium materials
    The SEA curriculum engages the senior enlisted leader with the doctrinal, strategic, and institutional context of naval leadership at a level that the NMCB construction department does not require. The readings — joint doctrine, naval strategy, enlisted professional development research — are the basis for the advisory conversations at flag level that a SWCS or CMC carries. The sailor who attended the SEA without engaging the curriculum is the senior enlisted leader who is recognized as such in title only.
  • NAVFAC workforce development, USACE GS-series position descriptions, AWS CWI certification track
    The SWCS/SWCM who knows the civilian construction market better than the career counselor does is the one whose sailors make the best post-service transitions. The NAVFAC GS-12 QA position, the USACE construction representative role, the AWS CWI in a fabrication shop QC department — the SWCS should know the application requirements, the salary ranges, and the most common paths from military service to each of these roles well enough to give specific guidance, not generic encouragement.
  • MILPERSMAN — at senior-enlisted level, all articles governing advancements, boards, NJP, separation, and high-visibility personnel actions
    The SWCS who encounters a MILPERSMAN provision for the first time when it applies to a situation in the command is the SWCS who is not prepared for the role. Read the articles governing each type of personnel action before the action arises. The CO's expectation is that the command senior enlisted advisor knows the framework before being asked for a recommendation.

Standards — How to Hit Each

  • Senior Enlisted Academy fellowship or equivalent PME before competing for command CMC slate.
    The SEA application process runs through the TYCOM and requires the CO's endorsement and the FORCE MCPON nomination. The timeline is long enough that the SWCS who wants the SEA needs to have the conversation with the CO and the CMC well before the application window. Treat it as a competitive process with specific requirements, not as an assignment that will be offered when the time is right.
  • NMCB or NCG construction safety program defensible at command, group, and NAVFAC command level.
    The OSHA 300 log, the EM 385-1-1 compliance documentation, and the NAVFAC safety inspection findings all bear the senior enlisted leader's constructive signature. The SWCS who reviews these records quarterly — not annually — and drives corrective action before the formal inspection finds the deficiency is the one whose safety program passes NAVFAC review without finding. The sailor who reads the inspection report to find out what the program's gaps are is the sailor who is behind.
  • Pipeline producing 1+ Chief accession, 1+ SCW completion, and 1+ post-service credentialing success per year from the command.
    Name the specific sailors in each pipeline category at the beginning of every year. The Chief accession candidate whose packet the SWCS is personally mentoring, the SWC whose SCW device qualification the SWCS is tracking against a specific timeline, the SW1 who is scheduled to sit the CWI exam during the homeport period. Name them, track them, and hold them accountable to the schedule. At the end of the year, the measure is whether those specific people accomplished those specific things.

Technical Mistakes — Concrete Consequences

  • Claiming current technical authority on a structural welding or erection specification the SWCS has not worked in the field for several tours.
    The SW3 who attended the most recent C-school has more current knowledge of a recently revised specification than the Master Chief who last worked that specification six years ago. Acknowledging the gap is not weakness — pretending the gap does not exist and being corrected in front of the CEC officer is. The SWCS who owns the gap and owns the subordinate who fills it is the technical authority. The one who pretends otherwise is not.
  • Letting a Chief-led construction department drift on QC documentation or safety-program currency and attributing the gap to the CEC OIC's oversight responsibility.
    The QC documentation and the safety program are the senior enlisted leader's accountability, not the officer's. The NAVFAC turnover inspection finds the deficiency under the senior enlisted chain of command, not the officer's. The SWCS who discovers at final inspection that the weld log gaps were 'the OIC's program to manage' has misunderstood the role for the entire tour.
  • Writing the Chief selection board endorsement based on personal relationship rather than demonstrated performance record.
    The board reads the pattern of the endorser's recommendations across multiple cycles. An endorser who consistently writes strong endorsements for sailors whose performance records do not support them is an endorser whose strong recommendations carry reduced weight. One sailor passed through with a marginal record is a missed quality gate; a pattern of passed-through marginal records is an endorser who is no longer trusted. The Chief petty officer community in a small rating carries these reputations for years.
  • Neglecting the SWCM's advisory role to the CEC community because 'the officers know their business.'
    CEC officers are trained in civil and structural engineering, but most of them have limited time in the field and significant gaps in construction execution realities — crane capacity in high-wind environments, welder qualification currency management, rigging hardware failure modes. The SWCM who does not fill these gaps with honest field experience is an advisory resource the Navy is not using. The project that fails because the CEC OIC did not know what the SWCM knew is the SWCM's failure as much as the officer's.

Career Decisions at This Rank

  • Command Master Chief opportunity — pursue vs. finish as SWCS and retire.
    The Command Master Chief billet is the highest enlisted position in the Navy command structure, and it carries responsibilities that extend well beyond the SW rate into every enlisted community in the command. Not every SWCS should pursue CMC — the role requires a senior enlisted leader who can advise the commanding officer on the entire enlisted climate, not just the construction department. The SWCS who has demonstrated that breadth — who has mentored across rates, who has managed command-level personnel issues beyond the SW community, who has the CO's trust in matters outside structural construction — is the profile the CMC selection process is looking for. If the CMC path is genuine, pursue it with the same deliberate preparation applied to the Chief and Senior Chief boards.
  • Post-Navy career path — federal civilian, defense contractor, or private construction industry.
    The three primary post-Navy paths for SWCS/SWCM are: (1) NAVFAC or USACE federal civilian (GS-11 through GS-13 entry, progression to GS-14 and above with construction management experience), which leverages the government-client familiarity and the NAVFAC construction program knowledge directly; (2) defense-contractor project management with firms that hold NAVFAC or USACE task-order contracts (Parsons, Jacobs, SAIC, Leidos engineering), where the military construction experience is a direct credential for the work; and (3) private structural construction — fabrication shop QC with an AWS CWI credential, special inspection agency work, or erection contractor project supervision. The federal civilian path typically offers the best combination of salary continuity, retirement benefit portability, and familiarity with the work environment. Begin the federal civilian application process during the final tour, not after separation.
  • When and how to transition the institutional knowledge — mentoring the next generation before retirement.
    The most consequential career decision the SWCS/SWCM makes in the final three years of service is how deliberately to transfer the institutional knowledge built over 24-28 years to the SWCs and SW1s who will run the rate after retirement. This is not accomplished through a final-tour mentoring surge — it is accomplished by the consistent mentoring that has happened throughout the senior-enlisted career, codified in the eEVAL blocks that describe specific outcomes, the pipeline decisions that placed the right sailors in the right assignments, and the technical conversations that raised the rate's standard one SW at a time. The SWCM who built this transfer throughout the career leaves the rate stronger. The one who tries to compress it into the final six months leaves a gap.

How the Seat Varies by Unit Type

  • NMCB Command Master Chief
    The CMC billet on an NMCB is the most visible senior enlisted assignment in the Seabee community. The SWCM serving as CMC advises the commanding officer on every enlisted decision — retention, discipline, climate, readiness — for all rates in the battalion, not just SW. The construction expertise remains relevant, but the primary role is command climate management. The NMCB CMC who is only comfortable with construction issues and defers on HR, mental health, and community relations has not grown into the full scope of the billet.
  • Naval Construction Group (NCG) Command Senior Enlisted Leader (CSEL)
    The NCG CSEL operates at the commodore advisory level, covering multiple NMCBs' worth of enlisted force across the construction group. The structural construction expertise is relevant to the advisory role, but the primary output is the group-level enlisted readiness assessment — qualification rates, retention figures, safety records, and advancement pipeline health across all construction rates in the group. This is a staff environment where influence operates through the SWCs and senior chiefs in the subordinate NMCBs, not through direct crew leadership.
  • NAVFAC Engineering Command senior enlisted
    A NAVFAC SWCM in a facilities engineering or construction directorate serves in an advisory role on construction quality, safety standards, and enlisted workforce capability for the NAVFAC region or command. The work is heavily oriented toward contract oversight, workforce development policy, and liaison with the regional NMCB commands. This is the billet that most directly maps to a post-service NAVFAC civilian role and provides the broadest exposure to the government construction owner's perspective.
  • Joint construction task force — senior SW on a multi-service mission
    A joint construction task force that includes Army engineer battalions, Air Force RED HORSE squadrons, and allied-nation engineering forces positions the SWCS/SWCM as the senior enlisted structural authority for the entire task force, not just the Navy element. The structural steel standard that the SWCM holds is applied across the joint force, and the after-action report from a major joint construction mission — disaster response, contingency construction, alliance exercise — is the kind of document that is read at service-chief level. These assignments are the most visible in the senior-enlisted career.

What Good Looks Like at This Rank

The good Master Chief Steelworker is the senior enlisted structural voice the battalion commander, NCG commodore, and NAVFAC commander name when they need the honest answer about what the NMCB can actually build and what it cannot. His assessment of the command's structural capability — specific, current, documented — is the one the flag officer acts on when resource requests go up the chain. The commanders who trust him trust him because he has been right before, and specifically because he told them the hard truth before the problem materialized rather than after it became a crisis. His pipeline is the proof. The Chief Steelworkers who selected under his tenure can name what he specifically did to advance their careers — a project assigned because he believed the SW1 was ready to run it, a board packet conversation that identified three gaps and produced a plan to fill them, a CWI examination scheduled and completed during a homeport period that would otherwise have been spent in garrison routine. The sailors remember the specific intervention, not the general encouragement. When he retires, the NMCB community and the NAVFAC workforce already know his standard — not because he told them, but because the Steelworkers who worked for him carry it. The battalion that served under a SWCM who held the standard has a different construction record than the battalion that did not. That difference persists for years after the retirement ceremony. It is the longest-lasting thing a Master Chief Steelworker leaves behind.

Preview — The Next Rank

There is no next level. The retirement ceremony is the close of the career, and the measure of it is not the awards on the uniform or the citations in the ceremony program — it is the construction record of every NMCB that carried Steelworkers you trained, evaluated, and sent to the next assignment. The weld logs that closed clean because the SW2 learned the standard from you. The Chief who selected because you wrote the eEVAL that made the board see what you saw. The SWCN who did not take the DUI because you had the conversation at 2300 on the pier in Djibouti that nobody else knew to have. The Seabee community's institutional memory of the SW rate is written by the SWCM generation that is retiring now. The structural steel that stands on forward bases and port facilities and airfields across the Indo-Pacific is proof that the 'Can Do' standard is not a slogan — it is a construction record. Leave it better than you found it.
FAQ

SW E8-E9 — Frequently Asked Questions

Q01What does a E8-E9 SW (Steelworker) actually do?
As SWCS or SWCM you run the senior enlisted construction posture for an NMCB, a Naval Construction Group (NCG), a NAVFAC command, or a joint construction task force where the path opens — up to Command Master Chief on an NMCB.
Q02What's the most important thing to know as a E8-E9 SW?
As SWCS or SWCM you are the senior enlisted structural voice for the battalion, the group, or the NAVFAC command.
Q03What does a typical day look like for a E8-E9 SW?
Time-blocked day at the E8-E9 SW rank tier: 0530 Personal PT — the SWCM who stops running the standard he holds for the command is the SWCM who has started the slide. Personal fitness is not optional at senior enlisted level; it is the daily demonstration of the standard, 0600-0700 Battalion PT formation — SWCM visible at formation. Not necessarily leading every element, but present. The formation that knows the senior enlisted leader is watching runs differently than the one that does not, 0700-0800 Chow, command team sync if applicable. Review overnight reports — safety incidents,…
Q04What mistakes get E8-E9 SW soldiers fired or relieved?
Integrity failure at the senior-enlisted level — falsified documentation, misrepresented readiness, protected misconduct that should have been escalated. At SWCS/SWCM the investigation does not stop at the individual; it traces through every document the senior chief signed, every endorsement written, and every personnel action supported. The SW community is small enough that a senior-chief-level integrity failure is known by every sailor in the rate within a month. There is no recovery;…
Q05What career decisions matter most at the E8-E9 SW rank tier?
Command Master Chief opportunity — pursue vs. finish as SWCS and retire — The Command Master Chief billet is the highest enlisted position in the Navy command structure, and it carries responsibilities that extend well beyond the SW rate into every enlisted community in the command. Not every SWCS should pursue CMC — the role requires a senior enlisted leader who can advise the commanding officer on the entire enlisted climate, not just the construction department. The SWCS who has demonstrated that breadth — who has mentored across rates,…
Q06What's next after E8-E9 for a SW (Steelworker) in the Navy?
There is no next level.
Q07What manuals and regulations does a E8-E9 SW need to know cold?
AWS D1.1 — Structural Welding Code – Steel; you are the senior enlisted technical reference when a CEC officer and a NAVFAC structural engineer are in dispute over a field weld condition.; OSHA 29 CFR 1926 Subpart R and EM 385-1-1 — full authority at the command level for the structural safety program across the NMCB.; NAVFAC P-307 — Management of Weight Handling Equipment; the crane and rigging program you defend at group or command level.

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