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68T Animal Care Specialist

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Overview

An Animal Care Specialist provides or supervises animal care, management, treatment, and sanitary conditions. This specialist focuses on preventing and controlling diseases transmitted from animals to humans and providing comprehensive care for government-owned animals.

Minimum clearance: Secret

Minimum ASVAB: 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

  • Prevention and control of animal-to-human disease

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.

Veterinary Assistants and Laboratory Animal Caretakers

Military animal care, treatment, sanitation, and disease prevention experience aligns with veterinary clinical support work.

How to prepare: Seek hands-on orientation to IDEXX Laboratories IDEXX Cornerstone for veterinary clinic work.

What the civilian work involves
  • Hold or restrain animals during veterinary procedures.
  • Clean and maintain kennels, animal holding areas, examination or operating rooms, or animal loading or unloading facilities to control the spread of disease.
  • Examine animals to detect behavioral changes or clinical symptoms that could indicate illness or injury.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • IDEXX Laboratories IDEXX Cornerstone

Animal Caretakers

Experience caring for government-owned animals and maintaining sanitary conditions transfers directly to daily animal husbandry and housing care.

How to prepare: Build a sample daily care checklist covering feeding schedules, illness observations, and disinfection of animal quarters.

What the civilian work involves
  • Feed and water animals according to schedules and feeding instructions.
  • Examine and observe animals to detect signs of illness, disease, or injury.
  • Do facility laundry and clean, organize, maintain, and disinfect animal quarters, such as pens and stables, and equipment, such as saddles and bridles.

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (3 documents)
  1. Army COOL MOC feed: 68T Animal Care Specialist

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

    Supports: Prevention and control of animal-to-human disease, Veterinary Assistants and Laboratory Animal Caretakers (O*NET 31-9096.00), Animal Caretakers (O*NET 39-2021.00)

  2. O*NET: Veterinary Assistants and Laboratory Animal Caretakers

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Veterinary Assistants and Laboratory Animal Caretakers (O*NET 31-9096.00)

  3. O*NET: Animal Caretakers

    [3] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Animal Caretakers (O*NET 39-2021.00)

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Predecessor codes

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

91T1Animal Care Specialist91T2Animal Care Specialist91T3Animal Care Specialist91T4Animal Care Specialist

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