Logistics specialist

The original storekeeper rating was substantiated in 1916[2] and the conversion to logistics specialist was not simply a name change, as this evolution encompassed federal laws and punitive regulations of handling, sorting, and securing the mail.

They open-purchase, inventory, screen, procure, receive, store and issue material and replace repair selected components.

[3] Logistics specialists typically fall under the command or supervision of commissioned officers of the U.S. Navy Supply Corps.

[citation needed] Logistics specialists can be found serving virtually any naval platform, in diverse theaters, including combat zones on forward operating bases like Iraq or Afghanistan in place of supply soldiers for the Army as an ad hoc individual augmentee.

Undesignated or non-rated sailors may also 'strike' (moonlight train/study through on-the-job-training and online-courses and take the exam) for logistics specialists without attending NTTC Meridian's Storekeeper "A" School.

U.S. Navy's "LS" rating device
A logistics specialist inventories supplies in a storeroom aboard the aircraft carrier USS George H. W. Bush .