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72B Entomology

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Overview

An Entomology Officer plans, directs, and participates in medical entomology research, operations, consultation, and pest management. This officer supports the control of pests and disease vectors that affect Army personnel, their morale, and their environment in organizations within and outside the continental United States.

Core Skills

  • Disease-vector control planning and operations
  • Medical entomology research planning
  • Health-focused pest management consultation

Civilian Career Paths

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Medical Entomologist

Army experience planning, directing, and conducting medical entomology research and pest-control operations transfers directly to civilian work on disease vectors and public-health pests.

How to prepare: Review a target medical-entomology opening with the employer to identify any gaps in your education, pesticide-applicator licensing, or employer credentialing.

What the civilian work involves
  • Study insects and disease vectors affecting human health.
  • Plan and evaluate public-health pest management and vector control.

Training & Development

Choose credentials for your target role. COOL funding markers describe program listings, not a guarantee of eligibility or funding.

Career Growth

  • Board Certified Entomologist

    Document professional entomology competence for Medical Entomologist positions that value board certification.

    Eligibility and preparation: A bachelor's degree or equivalent in a biological or life science, including at least four term-length entomology courses or research credits; a qualifying advanced degree can satisfy the education requirement when the undergraduate degree does not. Relevant experience must total three years with a bachelor's degree, two with a master's, or one with a PhD. Qualifying experience is full-time work outside a university before or after the degree; work toward a degree does not count. Applicants must also meet competency and examination requirements.

    For: Medical Entomologist

Notes & Sources

  • ESA reports ongoing certification-management issues in its account system; check current application processing before scheduling certification.
Evidence for this guidance (5 documents)
  1. Army COOL MOC feed: 72B Entomology

    [1] data/authority/army-codes.json entry 72B (OSD COOL feed, fetched 2026-07-25); DB rank officer, authority codeType officer

    Supports: Disease-vector control planning and operations, Medical entomology research planning, Health-focused pest management consultation, Medical Entomologist

  2. Entomological Society of America: Medical, Urban, and Veterinary Entomology

    [2] Section scope; retrieved 23 September 2026

    Supports: Medical Entomologist

  3. Entomological Society of America: Public Health Entomology Certificate

    [3] Program scope and Who can earn the certificate?; retrieved 23 September 2026

    Supports: Medical Entomologist

  4. COOL credential mapping: Board Certified Entomologist

    [4] 72B cached COOL credential feed

    Supports: Board Certified Entomologist

  5. Entomological Society of America: Board Certified Entomologist eligibility

    [5] Educational and Experiential Requirements effective 1 January 2025; retrieved 23 September 2026

    Supports: Board Certified Entomologist

Defense contractor jobs for 72B

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