Aviation Boatswain's Mates are responsible for aircraft catapults, arresting gear and barricades. They operate fuel and lube oil transfer systems, as well as direct aircraft on the flight deck and in hangar bays before launch and after recovery. They use tow tractors to position planes and operate support equipment used to start aircraft.

Navy Air Traffic Controllers perform duties similar to civilian air traffic controllers and are responsible for safely and effectively directing aircraft operating from airfields or the decks of aircraft carriers.

Aviation Machinist’s Mates are aircraft engine mechanics. They inspect, adjust, test, repair and overhaul aircraft engines and propellers. ADs also perform routine maintenance, prepare aircraft for flight and assist in handling aircraft on the ground.

Aerographer’s Mates are the Navy’s meteorological and oceanographic experts, trained in the science of meteorology and physical oceanography.

The Aviation Structural Mechanic - Hydraulics, maintains all aircraft main and auxiliary hydraulic power systems, actuating subsystems and landing gear. Responsible for maintenance on the aircraft fuselage (mainframe), wings, airfoils, and associated fixed and moveable surfaces and flight controls.

The Aviation Structural Mechanic - Safety Equipment, maintains and repairs utility systems throughout the aircraft. They work on systems such as air conditioning, heating, pressurization and oxygen, plus multiple safety devices.

Aviation Ordnancemen are aircraft armament (weapons) specialists in charge of storing, servicing, inspecting and handling of all types of weapons and ammunition carried on Navy aircraft.

Aviation Support Equipment personnel operate, maintain, repair and test automotive electrical systems in ground equipment, gasoline and diesel systems, and associated automotive, hydraulic and pneumatic systems.

Aviation Electronic, Electrical, and Computer Systems Technicians work with some of the most advanced electronics equipment in the world and repair a wide range of aircraft electrical and electronic systems. Repair jobs can range from trouble-shooting the computer-controlled weapon system on an F/A-18 Hornet on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier to repairing circuit cards or tracing electrical wiring diagrams in an air-conditioned work center.

The Aviation Warfare Systems Operator has gone away, and the new name of Naval Aircrewmen has replaced it per NAVADMIN 153/08. AW will be the single source rating with five new service ratings (AWR, AWS, AWO, AWF, AWV). Official Conversion to the new AW will occur 1 Oct 2008 and will be completed by 1 Oct 2010.

AT is actually divided into 3 different specialities. They are the normal AT= Aviation Electronics Technicians, the ATI = Aviation Electronics Technician (Intermediate Maintenance) & the ATO = Aviation Electronics Technician (Organizational Maintenance). They do this to allow Navy advancement test to reflect the actual job your doing.

Aviation Maintenance Administrationmen perform a variety of clerical, administrative, and managerial duties necessary to keep aircraft maintenance activities running efficiently. The rating requires close communication with all other aviation maintenance ratings.

Aircrew Survival Equipmentmen are responsible for the packing and care of parachutes. They maintain flight clothing, rubber life rafts, life jackets, oxygen-breathing apparatus, protective clothing, and air-sea rescue equipment.