Army MOS · Engineering

18C Special Forces Engineer Sergeant

Current service use not established

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Overview

Special Forces Engineer Sergeants employ conventional and unconventional warfare tactics and techniques in unilateral, combined, coalition, joint, interagency, and multinational operations. They perform combat engineer duties and maintain detachment engineer equipment and supplies.

Minimum clearance: Secret

Minimum ASVAB: GT 110 and CO 100

ASVAB policy: Not policy-reviewed · coverage unknown · as of 2026-10-19

Program scope has not been reviewed.

Policy applicability and coverage of the program's score routes have not been reviewed. Shown-route arithmetic is not an eligibility decision.

Source: smartbook-611-21-ch10c-fy2025 (source date 2025-12). Policy applicability has not been established.

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Core Skills

  • Detachment engineer equipment and supply upkeep

Civilian Career Paths

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Construction Laborers

Maintaining detachment engineer equipment transfers to the equipment and tool upkeep performed by construction laborers.

How to prepare: Take a hands-on introductory construction course covering equipment care and reading construction plans.

What the civilian work involves
  • Lubricate, clean, or repair machinery, equipment, or tools.
  • Read plans, instructions, or specifications to determine work activities.

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (2 documents)
  1. Army COOL MOC feed: 18C Special Forces Engineer Sergeant

    [1] data/authority/army-codes.json entry 18C (OSD COOL feed, fetched 2026-07-25); DB rank enlisted, authority codeType enlisted

    Supports: Detachment engineer equipment and supply upkeep, Construction Laborers (O*NET 47-2061.00)

  2. O*NET: Construction Laborers

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Construction Laborers (O*NET 47-2061.00)

Defense contractor jobs for 18C

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