The purpose of this unit is to help you accomplish the routine administrative tasks you will be asked to perform as an Aerographers Mate Second Class Petty Officer. The vast majority of the AG2 billet descriptions refer to Analyst/Forecaster Assistants. Most of the larger Naval Oceanography Command units have an AG2 assigned as the Records Petty Officer. Both jobs require administrative knowledge.

As an Analyst/Forecaster Assistant, ashore or at sea, you will be required to act as the intermediate link in the chain of command between the forecaster and the personnel in the duty section, a job normally listed on the watch bill as the Section Leader. You will find it necessary to make more decisions than you did as a Third Class Petty Officer; the Airmen and Third Class Petty Officers will come to you for information and advice about your command, other units in the Naval Oceanography Command, and general information about the Aerographers Mate rating and the Navy. You will find that a thorough knowledge of the structure of the Naval Oceanography Command will be needed for you to answer many of those questions. You will be required during the next few years to find information in instructions, other publications, and filing systems. You may likely be assigned to review and update filing systems, instructions, and publications. You no doubt will be tasked to properly dispose of old files, meteorological/oceanographic records, and charts.

In this unit, we cover the basics of the knowledge you will need to have about administration that is unique to the Aerographers Mate Rating. While this material is generally covered by general military occupational standards, it is not addressed until the E-7 level, in Petty Officer.

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