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64A Field Veterinary Service

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Overview

A Field Veterinary Service officer performs food safety work, provides animal medicine, and oversees military and civilian commercial facilities for subsistence production and storage. The officer supervises subsistence inspections and microbiological safety testing, provides medical care for government-owned animals, assists biomedical researchers, and trains military veterinary personnel.

Core Skills

  • Food microbiological safety and conformance testing
  • Food production and storage facility inspections
  • Veterinary support for biomedical research

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.

Veterinarians

Full medical care of government-owned animals and authorized care of beneficiaries' companion animals transfer directly to civilian veterinary practice.

How to prepare: Ask the licensing board in your intended state to review your veterinary education, examination history, and current license for any remaining requirements. Civilian practice requires an accredited Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree and state licensure, including qualifying examinations, although some state or federal government positions have different licensing requirements.

What the civilian work involves
  • Treat sick or injured animals by prescribing medication, setting bones, dressing wounds, or performing surgery.
  • Examine animals to detect and determine the nature of diseases or injuries.
  • Collect body tissue, feces, blood, urine, or other body fluids for examination and analysis.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • American Data Systems PAWS Veterinary Practice Management

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (3 documents)
  1. Army COOL MOC feed: 64A Field Veterinary Service

    [1] data/authority/army-codes.json entry 64A (OSD COOL feed, fetched 2026-07-25); DB rank officer, authority codeType officer

    Open source document (opens in a new tab)

    Supports: Food microbiological safety and conformance testing, Food production and storage facility inspections, Veterinary support for biomedical research, Veterinarians (O*NET 29-1131.00)

  2. O*NET: Veterinarians

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Open source document (opens in a new tab)

    Supports: Veterinarians (O*NET 29-1131.00)

  3. Bureau of Labor Statistics: veterinarians

    [3] How to Become One; retrieved 23 September 2026

    Open source document (opens in a new tab)

    Supports: Veterinarians (O*NET 29-1131.00)

Defense contractor jobs for 64A

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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