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CHAPTER 3
PERSONNEL SUPPORT
In chapter 2, you read about Navy enlisted ratings.
Do you now see how all the different ratings provide for
the overall utilization of enlisted personnel in support
of the Navy’s mission? Do you also recognize how the
Navy’s ratings provide for the specialties and
occupations the Navy must have to support its goals?
Can you also see how changes in the Navy’s goals will
result in manpower changes in the future? In your
career, you will become directly involved in dealing
with and processing these changes.
As a Personnelman (PN), you will perform
numerous clerical and personnel administrative duties
associated with manpower utilization and personnel
support. You will maintain personnel records, prepare
reports, and accomplish accounting and management
procedures for your command. You will also counsel
enlisted personnel concerning Navy ratings, training,
advancement, educational opportunities, and the
requirements, rights, benefits, and advantages of a Navy
career. To do your job effectively, you must be able to
make use of the appropriate authoritative publications
and directives and understand the procedures you
should use to administer to and account for the
personnel at your command.
This chapter discusses some important personnel
support areas with which you will be involved. In this
chapter, you will read about why you should be familiar
with the Navy Enlisted Classification (NEC) system
and how you will use the NEC codes to monitor, update,
and maintain personnel records and report manpower
utilization information for your command. You will
also learn how to process enlisted personnel action
requests, hardship discharge requests, and humanitarian
reassignment requests.
You will read about the
processing and issuing procedures for various
identification cards (ID) and meal passes. Although
this chapter will cover several important areas, it will
not cover all the facets of personnel support you will
encounter in your career. You will find additional
information on other aspects of this broad category in
the remaining chapters of this training manual
(TRAMAN).
After reading the information in this chapter, you
should be able to describe the purpose, structure, and
codes of the NEC structure and the procedures you
should use for processing recommendations for
assignment or cancellation of NECs. You should also
be able to recognize the correct procedures for
processing enlisted personnel action requests, hardship
requests, and humanitarian reassignment requests. You
should be able to describe the purpose of the Geneva
Conventions ID cards and the procedures you should
use for verifying and processing applications for other
armed forces ID cards. Also, you should be able to
explain the use of meal passes and the correct
procedures for typing, issuing, and accounting for them.
NAVY ENLISTED CLASSIFICATION
SYSTEM
In chapter 2, you read about the occupational
specialties associated with each individual Navy rating.
Now, let’s look at the NEC system and how the NEC
codes figure into your responsibilities as a PN.
The Navy Enlisted Occupational Classification
System consists of three major subsystems: (1) the
enlisted rating structure, (2) the NECs, and (3) special
qualifications.
In chapter 2, you read about the first subsystem, the
enlisted rating structure, and how it consists of rates and
ratings that form the framework for enlisted career
development and how it is also used as an
administrative tool to identify the primary
qualifications of every enlisted member in the Navy.
The second subsystem, the NECs, supplements the
enlisted rating structure by providing codes that identify
special knowledge and skills required in specific billets
or manpower authorizations. The NEC codes provide
a more specific identification of personnel and
manpower requirements and go beyond the general
scope of the enlisted rating structure. The third
subsystem, special qualifications, identifies highly
specialized qualifications that go beyond the scope of
the requirements of an individual rating.
NEC CODES
As part of the NEC system, the NEC codes identify
a nonrating-wide skill, knowledge, aptitude, or
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