Special Forces
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Special Forces
Description
Career Cluster: | Government & Public Administration |
Implement unconventional operations by air, land, or sea during combat or peacetime as members of elite teams. These activities include offensive raids, demolitions, reconnaissance, search and rescue, and counterterrorism. In addition to their combat training, special forces members often have specialized training in swimming, diving, parachuting, survival, emergency medicine, and foreign languages. Duties include conducting advanced reconnaissance operations and collecting intelligence information; recruiting, training, and equipping friendly forces; conducting raids and invasions on enemy territories; laying and detonating explosives for demolition targets; locating, identifying, defusing, and disposing of ordnance; and operating and maintaining sophisticated communications equipment.
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Special Forces
Related Occupations
Careers in National Security Pathway:
- Air Crew Members
- Air Crew Officers
- Aircraft Launch and Recovery Officers
- Aircraft Launch and Recovery Specialists
- Armored Assault Vehicle Crew Members
- Armored Assault Vehicle Officers
- Artillery and Missile Crew Members
- Artillery and Missile Officers
- Command and Control Center Officers
- Command and Control Center Specialists
- Engineering Technologists and Technicians, Except Drafters, All Other
- First-Line Supervisors of Air Crew Members
- First-Line Supervisors of All Other Tactical Operations Specialists
- First-Line Supervisors of Weapons Specialists/Crew Members
- Infantry
- Infantry Officers
- Military Enlisted Tactical Operations and Air/Weapons Specialists and Crew Members, All Other
- Military Officer Special and Tactical Operations Leaders, All Other
- Special Forces
- Special Forces Officers
- Transportation Security Screeners
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Special Forces
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Special Forces
Military Training
The following military job classifications are available for this occupation:
- Air Crew, General
- EOD/UDT
- Infantry, General
- Medical Care and Treatment, General
- Military Training Instructor
- Not Occupationally Qualified, General
- Special Forces
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Special Forces
Titles
- Advance Seal Delivery System Maintainer
- Amphibian Crewmember
- Basic Combatant Swimmer
- Combatant Swimmer (SEAL)
- Joint Special Operations
- Master Naval Parachutist
- Naval Special Warfare Medic
- Parachutist
- Pararescue Craftsman
- Pararescue Manager
- Reconnaissance Crewmember
- Reconnaissance Man
- Reconnaissance Man, Combatant Diver Qualified
- Reconnaissance Man, Parachute And Combatant Diver Qualified
- Reconnaissance Man, Parachutist Qualified
- SDV Pilot/Navigator/DDS Operator
- Seal Delivery Vehicle (SDV) Team Technician
- Special Forces Assistant Operations And Intelligence Sergeant
- Special Forces Communications Sergeant
- Special Forces Engineer Sergeant
- Special Forces Medical Sergeant
- Special Forces Weapons Sergeant
- Special Warfare Boat Operator
- Special Warfare Combatant Crewman
- Special Warfare Operator
- Survival Specialist
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Special Forces
Related Schools
- American National University
- George Mason University
- Hampton University
- Patrick Henry College
- Regent University
- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
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