Marine Corps MOS · Combat & Infantry
0315 Scout
Current service use not established
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Overview
Scouts conduct ground based reconnaissance, surveillance, and battlespace shaping for infantry and light armored reconnaissance battalions. They use advanced optics, communications suites, sensors, and unmanned systems to extend observation, while Joint Fires Observers on their teams coordinate surface to surface fires and air delivered fires.
Minimum ASVAB: GT 95 or EL 100 or CL 100
ASVAB policy: Not policy-reviewed · coverage unknown · as of 2026-10-22
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: maradmin-296-26 (source date 2026-06). Policy applicability has not been established.
Core Skills
- Assured long-range communications for reconnaissance
Notes & Sources
- PMOS 0315 takes effect on 1 October 2026.
Evidence for this guidance (1 document)
- MARADMIN 296/26 (26 Jun 2026): new PMOS 0315 Scout — FY27 MOS Manual entry (out-of-cycle change)
[1] GENTEXT/REMARKS paras 2-3.a; cached text data/sources/text/maradmin-296-26-0315_2026-08.txt lines 499-525 (message body at lines 419-677; surrounding page HTML chrome ignored)
Supports: Assured long-range communications for reconnaissance
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