Army MOS · Support

37F Psychological Operations Specialist

Current service use not established

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Overview

A Psychological Operations Specialist analyzes target audiences and environments, advises commanders and staffs, and plans, delivers, and assesses influence activities. The specialist supports military information support operations, psychological warfare, partner influence capacity, military deception, and civil authority information support.

Minimum clearance: Secret at entry, TS/SCI to maintain

Minimum ASVAB: GT 105

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

  • Target audience and operating environment analysis
  • Influence series planning and development
  • Progress assessment against behavioral objectives

Civilian Career Paths

Career associations are editorial assessments of the cited evidence, not an official crosswalk unless the evidence explicitly says so. O*NET supplies civilian occupation information, not proof of a military match. Related experience does not confer civilian qualifications. Tasks and tools below describe civilian work, not military training.

Market Research Analysts and Marketing Specialists

Analyzing target audiences and environments and assessing progress toward influence objectives transfers to researching consumer preferences and evaluating marketing strategies.

How to prepare: Build a market-research sample using a public consumer survey dataset, with audience segments, charts, and a short findings report connecting preferences to a marketing decision.

What the civilian work involves
  • Prepare reports of findings, illustrating data graphically and translating complex findings into written text.
  • Collect and analyze data on customer demographics, preferences, needs, and buying habits to identify potential markets and factors affecting product demand.
  • Conduct research on consumer opinions and marketing strategies, collaborating with marketing professionals, statisticians, pollsters, and other professionals.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft PowerPoint
  • Google Analytics

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (2 documents)
  1. Army COOL MOC feed: 37F Psychological Operations Specialist

    [1] data/authority/army-codes.json entry 37F (OSD COOL feed, fetched 2026-07-25); DB rank enlisted, authority codeType enlisted

    Supports: Target audience and operating environment analysis, Influence series planning and development, Progress assessment against behavioral objectives, Market Research Analysts and Marketing Specialists (O*NET 13-1161.00)

  2. O*NET: Market Research Analysts and Marketing Specialists

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Market Research Analysts and Marketing Specialists (O*NET 13-1161.00)

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Predecessor codes

Historical codes with documented links to 37F. Each history page explains the change.

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