Army MOS · Support

38B Civil Affairs Specialist

Current service use not established

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Overview

A Civil Affairs Specialist supervises, coordinates, conducts, and participates in Civil Affairs analysis and planning. The specialist produces related documents and actions for strategic and tactical Civil Affairs Operations and Civil Military Operations across Army, joint, and combined commands.

Minimum clearance: Secret

Minimum ASVAB: GT 107

ASVAB policy: Not policy-reviewed · coverage unknown · as of 2026-10-18

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

  • Strategic and tactical civil-military planning
  • Civil affairs documentation for joint commands

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.

Business Continuity Planners

Planning, coordinating, and producing civil-military operations documents for Army, joint, and combined commands provides transferable experience for continuity-plan development.

How to prepare: Draft a sample continuity plan for one critical organizational process, including recovery decisions and a communication call tree.

What the civilian work involves
  • Develop emergency management plans for recovery decision making and communications, continuity of critical departmental processes, or temporary shut-down of non-critical departments to ensure continuity of operation and governance.
  • Establish, maintain, or test call trees to ensure appropriate communication during disaster.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Microsoft Office software
  • Adobe Acrobat

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (2 documents)
  1. Army COOL MOC feed: 38B Civil Affairs Specialist

    [1] data/authority/army-codes.json entry 38B (OSD COOL feed, fetched 2026-07-25); DB rank enlisted, authority codeType enlisted

    Supports: Strategic and tactical civil-military planning, Civil affairs documentation for joint commands, Business Continuity Planners (O*NET 13-1199.04)

  2. O*NET: Business Continuity Planners

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Business Continuity Planners (O*NET 13-1199.04)

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Predecessor codes

Historical codes with documented links to 38B. Each history page explains the change.

Descriptions may be summarized for clarity. Verify all information with your branch career counselor or official military documentation before making career decisions.

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