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65C Dietitian

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Overview

A dietitian formulates policies, develops procedures, and directs and supervises nutrition care services. The dietitian oversees comprehensive nutrition care programs in fixed medical treatment facilities and field medical units during peacetime, mobilization, and wartime.

Core Skills

  • Nutrition care policy and procedure development
  • Medical facility nutrition service supervision
  • Field medical nutrition program direction

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.

Dietitians and Nutritionists

Experience directing comprehensive nutrition care programs in military medical facilities transfers directly to civilian nutrition care delivery.

How to prepare: Compare your education, supervised training, and current credentials with the destination state board's practice requirements and target employers' credentialing criteria. Entry typically involves a bachelor's or master's degree and supervised training; many states require licensure, while others regulate registration, certification, or title use.

What the civilian work involves
  • Assess nutritional needs, diet restrictions, and current health plans to develop and implement dietary-care plans and provide nutritional counseling.
  • Advise patients and their families on nutritional principles, dietary plans, diet modifications, and food selection and preparation.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Allergenic diet software
  • Axxya Systems Nutritionist Pro

Nutrition Services Manager

Military responsibility for nutrition care policies, procedures, and service supervision closely matches management of a civilian medical facility's nutrition services.

How to prepare: Build a portfolio of de-identified nutrition service policies, operating procedures, and program oversight examples to demonstrate your management scope to hospital employers.

What the civilian work involves
  • Direct, supervise and evaluate work activities of medical, nursing, technical, clerical, service, maintenance, and other personnel.
  • Plan, implement, and administer programs and services in a health care or medical facility, including personnel administration, training, and coordination of medical, nursing and physical plant staff.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft Office software

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (4 documents)
  1. Army COOL MOC feed: 65C Dietitian

    [1] data/authority/army-codes.json entry 65C (OSD COOL feed, fetched 2026-07-25); DB rank officer, authority codeType officer

    Supports: Nutrition care policy and procedure development, Medical facility nutrition service supervision, Field medical nutrition program direction, Dietitians and Nutritionists (O*NET 29-1031.00), Nutrition Services Manager (O*NET 11-9111.00)

  2. O*NET: Dietitians and Nutritionists

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Dietitians and Nutritionists (O*NET 29-1031.00)

  3. Bureau of Labor Statistics: dietitians and nutritionists

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

    Supports: Dietitians and Nutritionists (O*NET 29-1031.00)

  4. O*NET: Medical and Health Services Managers

    [4] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Nutrition Services Manager (O*NET 11-9111.00)

Defense contractor jobs for 65C

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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