Travel the world to capture military operations, develop high-profile media campaigns and tell the story of America’s Navy.
Navy Musicians perform at special events, celebrations, international parades and more.
Writes news releases, answers reporters' questions, and manages the public image of America’s Navy.
Controls congestion in the skies, keeping flight decks and airstrips in check. Organizes air traffic and communicates critical information to pilots.
Fly the Navy’s most advanced drones and extend the reach of carrier strike groups.
Directs the movement of the entire flight deck, leading jet launch sequences and ensuring aircraft recovery.
Acts as the eyes and ears of the cockpit, serving as versatile operators behind helicopters.
Serves as go-to in-flight personnel, moving high-priority cargo, performing medical evacuations or transports, and acting as the airborne eyes and ears for Navy intelligence, and handling valuable equipment.
Detects and engages threats beneath the ocean’s surface, serving as a primary defense against deep-sea dangers.
Hunts for lurking submarines from the air aboard MH-60 Romeos. Trained as a rescue swimmer and leaps from helicopters into the sea to save lives, detecting what others deem undetectable.
Manage and direct aircraft launch operations on the flight deck.
Refuel aircraft on the flight deck and keep fuel flowing to all parts of the ship.
Launch and recover aircraft on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier.
Leads flight support teams, managing the repair and upkeep of numerous aviation assets and hundreds of personnel.
Manages a ship’s stock of missiles, mines, and other ordnance, handling all aircraft ammunition.
Leads aircraft launches on the flight deck, serving as the final check and signal for jet liftoff.
Defends from the sea to the stratosphere, flying and fighting in lethal jets from aircraft carriers. Completes complex air maneuvers at top speeds, gathering intel, dropping ordnance, and conducting defensive missions.
Hunts submarines, patrols skies, and supplies carriers. Searches for underwater threats, delivers payloads, and executes strategic aerial maneuvers from the stratosphere to mere feet above the sea.
Operates helicopters for various tactical and support operations, including tracking subsurface contacts and performing critical rescue missions.
Uncovers threats in the depths of the sea, detecting, analyzing, classifying, and tracking sub-surface contacts. Performs sonar and sonobuoy operations, coordinating tactical communications, and conducting weapons delivery for missions.
Leads flight missions to success, serving as navigator, lookout, and weapon operator in naval aviation. Facilitates missions ranging from hunting submarines and navigating enemy territory to dropping bombs from fighter jets.
Keep the Navy’s complex aircraft and helicopters in top working order.
Provide meals that keep your fellow Sailors fueled for duty.
Support and assist fellow Sailors by helping guide their career journey.
Keeps ships stocked with essential equipment, delivering what the Navy needs for mission success. Ensures critical supplies and resources are available at all times.
Advance your own career goals while you help fellow Sailors do the same.
Keep your shipmates happy by managing ship store, laundry and barber services.
Oversee logistics and ensure your ship is supplied with everything it needs.
Become an administrative pro by managing the Navy’s paperwork and records.
Solves problems using hands, constructing and repairing Navy and Marine Corps facilities wherever needed. Crafts infrastructure from the ground up, gaining training in trades such as carpentry, plaster, roofing, and masonry.
Design and build city-size bases, airfields and harbor facilities.
Gain hands-on electrical experience by handling wiring, pole-climbing, and electrical equipment repair.
Responsible for keeping the Navy’s fleet of boats, vehicles and other equipment running with their expertise in engine and mechanical systems.
Assists in developing final construction plans, gaining real-world engineering experience by performing pre-construction prep work, including blueprint planning and land surveying.
Work with construction equipment from bulldozers to cranes and everything in between.
Weld metal a world away as a Navy Steelworker.
Keep critical utilities systems up and running no matter where you are in the world.
Maintain and repair the complex electronic systems aboard Navy aircraft.
Uses electronic systems like radar to detect and track threats, making ships virtually invisible. Employs electronic countermeasure tricks to confuse adversaries and deflect sensors, ensuring mission success.
Maintain the navigation systems that ensure your submarine reaches its destination.
Maintain the electronic systems controlling a submarine’s vast supply of firepower.
Maintains ship combat readiness by providing system employment recommendations and performing maintenance on digital computer equipment.
Keep vital computer networks up and running aboard ships and submarines.
Installs, maintains, and repairs equipment for interior communications within ships and shore facilities. Ensures smooth operation of all communication systems, from TV entertainment to bridge-to-engine room networks.
Assembles, maintains, and repairs nuclear-capable ballistic missiles.
Keeps Sailors out of harm's way, serving as a first responder critical to preventing accidents. Trained in firefighting and ship stability, ensuring safety during emergencies like burst pipes or explosions.
Executes mission-critical cyber operations, leading efforts to safeguard critical infrastructure and disrupt adversaries globally. Serves at the forefront of Navy cyber warfare, defending networks and launching cyber offensives to protect national interests.
Keep Navy aircraft at peak performance by maintaining electrical systems and components.
Maintain the engines of the Navy’s most powerful aircraft and helicopters.
Inspect and repair aviation equipment to ensure aircraft are always flight-ready.
Maintain aircraft equipment that sustains life at every altitude.
Perform ground support operations that keep Navy aircraft flying high.
Be the person Navy pilots rely on to keep emergency equipment in top shape.
Performs honored duties as a member of the Navy's oldest rating, serving as a jack-of-all-trades on ships and shore.
Keep the power on and the lights running aboard aircraft carriers and ships.
Move the fleet forward as an expert in diesel engine systems.
Operate the electrical systems of powerful turbine engines on Navy warships.
Operates and maintains the mechanical systems and components of gas turbine engines and propulsion systems.
Maintain your ship’s guns and missile launchers, and oversee all weapons on board.
Perform metal work and welding to repair hull breaches and broken equipment.
Repair tools and fabricate parts for machinery and equipment across the ship.
Maintain vital propulsion and auxiliary systems on every inch of the ship.
Maintain the systems that make life possible on a submarine.
Serve aboard a Minesweeper to detect and neutralize underwater explosives.
Secures underwater missile silos aboard submarines, maintaining, preparing, and launching various ordnance. Functions as a weapons system specialist, handling everything from torpedoes and missiles to small arms and ammunition, ensuring sub safety.
Hunts for signals to provide tactical and strategic intelligence to ships and special warfare units. This classified role intercepts information and reports threats to protect the fleet and save lives.
Translates and interprets foreign communications, serving as a cultural expert and linguist. Collects intelligence globally in support of the Navy, analyzing cultural codes to ensure informed operations.
Troubleshoots and maintains top-secret equipment vital to national security. Installs and repairs sophisticated cryptologic systems, electronic equipment, and antennas.
Serves as an expert in radar signals, providing tactical guidance to special warfare operations and ships. Uses high-power jamming signals for missile defense and to prevent enemy attacks, ensuring ship safety through surveillance skills.
Leads intelligence operations, demonstrating a deep understanding of codebreaking and Information Operations. Creates warfighting options for Fleet Commanders and advises decision-makers, achieving military objectives in the cyber battlespace.
Defends attacks in cyberspace, trained in disruptive technologies and cyberspace capability development. Researches, designs, develops, tests, and evaluates software and firmware to build defenses for vital computer networks against information theft or sabotage.
Performs offensive and defensive cyber operations, investigating and tracking enemies while protecting networks from attacks.
Leads teams in maintaining and securing global networks, ensuring communication capabilities are delivered.
Leads national intelligence security, analyzing top-secret information and interpreting spy reports.
Gathers critical intelligence and prepares important briefs, ensuring readiness by collecting data on foreign cultures, enemy movements, and weather.
Executes mission-critical cyber operations, leading efforts to safeguard critical infrastructure and disrupt adversaries globally. Serves at the forefront of Navy cyber warfare, defending networks and launching cyber offensives to protect national interests.
Gathers critical intelligence, serving as a supervisor in the top-secret Combat Information Center. Tracks potential enemy targets using complex radar equipment, providing ships and aircraft with strategic advantages to neutralize threats.
Navigates the open seas, specializing in maps, charts, and oceanography to keep ships on course. Works in the ship’s pilot house, providing expertise essential for safety and operational success.
Track what lies beneath the waves on a surface ship or submarine as a Sonar Technician.
Emerge as a true leader by commanding the fleet, the crew and all vital systems aboard vital Navy vessels.
Pursues a wide-ranging legal practice within the Navy JAG Corps, encompassing traditional disciplines and unique sea-based military service law.
Responsible for developing specialized paralegal skills and directly assisting lawyers in the JAG Corps.
Engineer ways for Naval Aviators to succeed in impossible environments.
Study the psychological effects of supersonic travel on aviators.
Treat hearing issues and conduct research to preserve auditory health for Sailors and Marines.
Provide therapy services to Sailors experiencing stressors uniquely related to service.
Performs routine dental work on Sailors and Marines and assists with humanitarian aid efforts, ensuring good dental health on ships.
Become a disease expert for the Navy and make outbreaks a thing of the past.
Shape policy and practice in one of the world’s foremost global health care systems.
Help save lives by assisting in critical medical departments and procedures.
Saves lives in the shadows, stabilizing wounded operators under enemy fire and responding to medical emergencies. Leaping from helicopters and diving with the Special Operations teams, handling critical situations wherever missions arise.
Eliminate workplace safety hazards so Sailors can focus on the mission at hand.
Provide laboratory services that give Navy doctors and patients the answers they seek.
Handles the entire process, from communicating with families and foreign governments, preparing bodies, and conducting the funeral services to honor fallen Sailors.
Provides high-quality nursing care and medical services wherever needed, including Navy medical facilities, ships, and overseas humanitarian aid missions.
Rehabilitate Sailors following illness or injury with cutting-edge devices and therapy.
Diagnose and treat vision problems to ensure service members maintain excellent eyesight.
Consult with patients, dispense medication and provide guidance to people in need.
Help Sailors recover from injuries so they can get back to work.
Saves lives by leading healthcare teams and providing high-quality medical care to Sailors, Marines, service members, their families, and the population at large.
Work alongside surgeons and supervising physicians to deliver the best health care.
Keep Navy Sailors on their feet by treating foot and ankle injuries.
Keep fellow Sailors safe from potential radiation exposure.
Improve the health of Sailors and people across the world through mindful nutrition.
Conduct research to protect our Sailors from biological, radiological and chemical threats.
Diagnose, treat and rehabilitate Sailors with training-related injuries.
Explore cognitive and physiological psychology to keep Sailors sound in mind and body.
Counsel active and retired members and their families during times of social, psychological or emotional need.
Be a spiritual guide and moral anchor, supporting servicemembers during their most joyful moments and during their most difficult ones.
Prepare devotional materials and organize faith-based events, while also serving as a resource for Navy Chaplains.
Serve as a meteorology and oceanography expert as an Aerographer’s Mate.
Design and build city-size bases, airfields and harbor facilities.
Power the world’s strongest Navy as an Electrician’s Mate (Nuclear).
Powers Navy ships by operating and maintaining the electronic systems that run naval reactors.
Design, develop and deploy the Navy’s modern combat fleet.
Plans, directs, and participates in programs for infestation prevention and arthropod pest control, ensuring safe operations.
Keeps ships stocked with essential equipment, delivering what the Navy needs for mission success. Ensures critical supplies and resources are available at all times.
Studies the sea and weather globally, informing about weather patterns and preparing comprehensive maps. Oversees weather forecasting for missions, charting courses for ships, and identifying currents for submarines.
Conduct medical research and trace infectious diseases to defeat biological threats.
Sets the standard in nuclear reactor research, serving as the technical authority for oversight of Navy nuclear reactors and power plants. Responsible for research, design, maintenance, operations, and regulation, defining the cutting edge of nuclear propulsion.
Serve as a top expert on classified nuclear technology, instructing at Nuclear Power School. Responsible for teaching facts and mindset to students who will uphold safe nuclear operations and power the defense force.
Lead and oversee a team running one of the most dynamic nuclear power plants in the world.
Maintains and operates complex nuclear reactor and power generation systems aboard aircraft carriers. This role primarily focuses on ensuring the safety of personnel and the secure, efficient functioning of these critical systems.
Hold leadership roles in every department on a submarine, overseeing tasks from managing the nuclear reactor plant to driving the vessel through the depths of the sea.
Bravely jumps into extreme conditions, including raging seas and combat zones, to save lives. Executes life-or-death rescues as part of an elite Special Operations force, pulling survivors from sinking ships or saving downed pilots.
Master high-tech tools to eliminate explosive threats.
Saves lives in the shadows, stabilizing wounded operators under enemy fire and responding to medical emergencies. Leaping from helicopters and diving with the Special Operations teams, handling critical situations wherever missions arise.
Masters the depths others cannot reach, executing critical underwater operations like salvaging sunken wreckage and repairing ships. Operates state-of-the-art diving systems for tasks ranging from underwater welding to submarine rescue, keeping the fleet mission-ready.
Provides immediate military relief in global crises as part of an elite maritime military force. Conducts insertions and extractions by sea, air, or land to accomplish covert Special Warfare and Special Operations missions.
Deliver Special Operations assets where they’re needed.
The Navy’s Nuclear Propulsion Program is home to the biggest jobs in the world. As a Navy Nuke, you’re responsible for safely operating and maintaining nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and submarines. With the longest record of safe nuclear operations in the world, the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program accepts only the brightest minds. A hunger for math and science isn’t enough to be a Nuke. You’re either born for it, or you’re not.
Electronic Technicians (Nuclear) operate and maintain the electronic systems that make the reactor on Navy ships run.
Electrician’s Mates (Nuclear) operate and maintain the major electrical machinery and circuits aboard nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and submarines.
Machinist’s Mates (Nuclear) are the Navy’s nuclear reactor mechanics. They operate and maintain the steam-powered machinery aboard aircraft carriers and submarines.
Nuclear Surface Warfare Officers ensure Sailors in the Reactor Department maintain and operate the ship’s reactor and power generation systems safely and efficiently.
Nuclear Power School Instructors teach math, science and nuclear theory to Navy Nuclear Sailors heading to the Fleet.
Naval Reactor Engineers are the technical authority overseeing research, design, maintenance, operations and regulations of Navy nuclear reactors and power plants.
Nuclear Power Training Unit Instructors lead the watchteams running the world’s most dynamic nuclear power plants and ensure every Sailor in the Nuclear Program receives the proper hands-on training.
Submarine Officers direct the course and lead teams of Sailors onboard the Navy’s nuclear powered submarines, performing missions vital to national security.
TRAINING
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In Nuclear Operations, promotion opportunities are regularly available but competitive and based on performance. Specialized training and work experience gained during service can lead to valuable credentialing and occupational opportunities in related fields in the civilian sector. Adding “Navy Nuke” to your resume will make you a top candidate for many future careers.
ADVANCEMENT
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Navy Nukes receive the same base pay as Sailors of the same rank. However, Enlisted Nukes have the highest signing bonus in the Navy and can make up to $140,000 from their enlistment bonus and incentives.
PAY
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The Naval Nuclear Propulsion Officer Candidate (NUPOC) Program is a collegiate program for students interested in engineering and a career as a Naval Officer. Those in the NUPOC program receive a full-time monthly salary while enrolled in a full-time college degree program, enabling them to focus on their education without worrying about financial obligations.
NUPOC PROGRAM
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Navy Nukes are the Sailors responsible for keeping nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and submarines running safely. With careers in both Enlisted and Officers roles, Nukes are highly trained with unparalleled skills in math, physics and engineering.
Navy Nukes receive the same base pay as Sailors of the same rank. However, Enlisted Nukes have the highest signing bonus in the Navy. E-1 pay begins at $22/hour, while an O-9 can earn around $200,000/year.
Navy Nukes can be stationed in a wide variety of locations. Operational duty stations include Norfolk, VA; Groton, CT; Ballston Spa, NY; Portsmouth, NH; Kings Bay, GA; Mayport, FL; Charleston, SC; Bremerton, WA; Bangor, WA; and San Diego, CA. OCONUS operational duty stations include Hawaii, Guam, and Japan. Additional locations for duty may also be available during periods of shore duty.
NUPOC stands for Naval Nuclear Propulsion Officer Candidate Program. This is a collegiate program that provides a full-time Officer’s salary for qualified students interested in engineering and an Officer career in the Navy.
Requirements to join the NUPOC program can be found in Program Authorization (PA) 100A for Submarine Officers and Nuclear Surface Warfare Officers, and PA 100B for Nuclear Power School Instructors, NPTU Instructors, and Naval Reactors Engineers. To be an eligible candidate for NUPOC, an applicant must be a U.S. citizen and undergraduate student at an accredited college or university with a GPA greater than 3.00. Applicants must have completed one academic year of calculus and one academic year of calculus-based physics courses.
For those eager to start their careers, hungry to learn, and ready to serve, NUPOC is more than worth it. In addition to receiving a full-time monthly salary, candidates earn the tuition benefits of the Post-9/11 GI Bill, receive full medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as all the other benefits of serving in the Navy. Candidates receive a sign-on bonus of $30,000 as a student upon commitment to the NUPOC program, with the exception of Nuclear Power School Instructor candidates.
