Army MOS · Support

38G Military Government

Overview

A Military Government officer applies civilian expertise in areas such as public health, public safety, administration, infrastructure, commerce, or education to Civil Affairs tasks. The officer helps assess, monitor, protect, reinforce, establish, and transition political, economic, social, and cultural institutions and capabilities across operational environments.

Minimum clearance: Secret

Core Skills

  • Assessment and reinforcement of civilian institutions
  • Civil information management for operational support
  • Application of civilian expertise to humanitarian assistance

Civilian Career Paths

Related experience does not confer civilian qualifications. Tasks and tools below describe civilian work, not military training.

Business Continuity Planners

Experience assessing, reinforcing, and transitioning civilian institutions supports planning for continuity of essential services and governance.

How to prepare: Build a sample continuity plan for a public service, identifying critical processes, recovery priorities, and communications, then test it through a tabletop exercise.

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.
  • Test documented disaster recovery strategies and plans.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft SharePoint

Notes & Sources

  • 38G expertise varies by civilian specialty and documented proficiency; target continuity roles aligned with the institutions and services you have supported.
Evidence for this guidance (2 documents)
  1. Army COOL MOC feed: 38G Military Government

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

    Supports: Assessment and reinforcement of civilian institutions, Civil information management for operational support, Application of civilian expertise to humanitarian assistance, 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)

Defense contractor jobs for 38G

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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