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46V Visual Information Specialist

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Overview

A visual information specialist operates audiovisual equipment to combine text, sound, photos, animation, video, and graphics into multimedia products. This specialist also operates broadcast and video equipment, creates illustrations and web pages, and performs unit-level maintenance on assigned equipment.

Minimum clearance: Secret

Minimum ASVAB: EL 93 and ST 91

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

  • Combat documentation through multimedia production
  • Broadcast and video teleconferencing equipment operation
  • Map overlays, charts, and poster layouts
  • Unit-level audiovisual equipment maintenance

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.

Audio and Video Technicians

Operating audiovisual, video teleconferencing, and distribution equipment provides direct overlap with civilian media-system operation and troubleshooting.

How to prepare: Set up and document a practice video-conferencing session, including audio/video checks and a troubleshooting log.

What the civilian work involves
  • Diagnose and resolve media system problems.
  • Compress, digitize, duplicate, and store audio and video data.
  • Install, adjust, and operate electronic equipment to record, edit, and transmit radio and television programs, motion pictures, video conferencing, or multimedia presentations.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Zoom
  • Cisco Webex
  • Adobe After Effects

Graphic Designers

Creating illustrations, layouts, posters, charts, and web pages provides direct overlap with civilian visual design and layout work.

How to prepare: Build a portfolio of original poster, chart, and website-layout samples that demonstrates typography and composition.

What the civilian work involves
  • Determine size and arrangement of illustrative material and copy, and select style and size of type.
  • Develop graphics and layouts for product illustrations, company logos, and Web sites.
  • Create designs, concepts, and sample layouts, based on knowledge of layout principles and esthetic design concepts.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Adobe Illustrator
  • Adobe InDesign
  • Adobe Photoshop

Broadcast Technicians

Operating broadcast and television production equipment, together with unit-level equipment maintenance, transfers to broadcast-station equipment operation and fault response.

How to prepare: Complete a hands-on broadcast-equipment lab focused on signal monitoring and audio/video level adjustment.

What the civilian work involves
  • Report equipment problems, ensure that repairs are made, and make emergency repairs to equipment when necessary and possible.
  • Monitor strength, clarity, and reliability of incoming and outgoing signals, and adjust equipment as necessary to maintain quality broadcasts.
  • Observe monitors and converse with station personnel to determine audio and video levels and to ascertain that programs are airing.

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (4 documents)
  1. Army COOL MOC feed: 46V Visual Information Specialist

    [1] data/authority/army-codes.json entry 46V (OSD COOL feed, fetched 2026-07-25); DB rank enlisted, authority codeType enlisted

    Supports: Combat documentation through multimedia production, Broadcast and video teleconferencing equipment operation, Map overlays, charts, and poster layouts, Unit-level audiovisual equipment maintenance, Audio and Video Technicians (O*NET 27-4011.00), Graphic Designers (O*NET 27-1024.00), Broadcast Technicians (O*NET 27-4012.00)

  2. O*NET: Audio and Video Technicians

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Audio and Video Technicians (O*NET 27-4011.00)

  3. O*NET: Graphic Designers

    [3] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Graphic Designers (O*NET 27-1024.00)

  4. O*NET: Broadcast Technicians

    [4] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Broadcast Technicians (O*NET 27-4012.00)

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Predecessor codes

Historical codes with documented links to 46V. Each history page explains the change.

25V1Visual Information Specialist25V2Visual Information Specialist25V3Visual Information Specialist

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