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18Z Special Forces Operations Sergeant

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Overview

A Special Forces Operations Sergeant supervises and instructs personnel and serves as the senior enlisted member for Special Forces activities. This sergeant performs administrative, operational, and training duties during ODA mission preparation and operations, conducts joint, interagency, multinational, combined, and coalition planning, and supervises operations for higher headquarters and commands.

Minimum clearance: Secret

Core Skills

  • Joint, interagency, and coalition planning
  • Mission preparation and operational training coordination
  • Higher-headquarters operations supervision
  • Special Forces instruction and proficiency training

Civilian Career Paths

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Training and Development Specialists

Special Forces instruction, proficiency training, supervision, and higher-headquarters operations coordination provide a foundation for organizing and delivering workforce training.

How to prepare: For defense-sector workforce training, build a sample course package around a civilian job task analysis, including learning objectives, an instructor guide, and a skills assessment.

What the civilian work involves
  • Obtain, organize, or develop training procedure manuals, guides, or course materials, such as handouts or visual materials.
  • Offer specific training programs to help workers maintain or improve job skills.
  • Assess training needs through surveys, interviews with employees, focus groups, or consultation with managers, instructors, or customer representatives.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Microsoft PowerPoint
  • Microsoft Excel

Notes & Sources

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

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

    Supports: Joint, interagency, and coalition planning, Mission preparation and operational training coordination, Higher-headquarters operations supervision, Special Forces instruction and proficiency training, Training and Development Specialists (O*NET 13-1151.00)

  2. O*NET: Training and Development Specialists

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Training and Development Specialists (O*NET 13-1151.00)

Defense contractor jobs for 18Z

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