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68S Preventive Medicine Specialist

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Overview

A Preventive Medicine Specialist conducts or assists with preventive medicine inspections, surveys, control operations, and laboratory procedures. The specialist also supervises preventive medicine facilities or serves on a preventive medicine staff.

Minimum ASVAB: ST 98

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

  • Preventive medicine laboratory procedures
  • Preventive medicine facility supervision

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.

Occupational Health and Safety Technicians

Preventive medicine inspections, surveys, and laboratory procedures provide relevant experience for workplace hazard inspection and testing.

How to prepare: Take a course in civilian safety regulations and workplace inspection methods. Technicians typically need at least a high school diploma and receive on-the-job training.

What the civilian work involves
  • Test workplaces for environmental hazards, such as exposure to radiation, chemical or biological hazards, or excessive noise.
  • Maintain all required environmental records and documentation.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft Word

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (3 documents)
  1. Army COOL MOC feed: 68S Preventive Medicine Specialist

    [1] data/authority/army-codes.json entry 68S (OSD COOL feed, fetched 2026-07-25); DB rank enlisted, authority codeType enlisted

    Supports: Preventive medicine laboratory procedures, Preventive medicine facility supervision, Occupational Health and Safety Technicians (O*NET 19-5012.00)

  2. O*NET: Occupational Health and Safety Technicians

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Occupational Health and Safety Technicians (O*NET 19-5012.00)

  3. Bureau of Labor Statistics: Occupational Health and Safety Specialists and Technicians

    [3] How to Become One: Education, Training, Work Experience; page dated 2026-08-27, retrieved 2026-09-23

    Supports: Occupational Health and Safety Technicians (O*NET 19-5012.00)

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Predecessor codes

Historical codes with documented links to 68S. Each history page explains the change.

91S1Preventive Medicine Specialist91S2Preventive Medicine Specialist91S3Preventive Medicine Specialist91S4Preventive Medicine Specialist91S5Preventive Medicine Specialist

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