Marine Corps MOS · Combat & Infantry

0317 Scout Sniper

Current service use not established

This code is listed in the directory. Inclusion alone does not confirm current service use.

Overview

Scout Snipers use fieldcraft and marksmanship to deliver long range precision fire on selected targets from concealed positions during combat operations. They conduct close reconnaissance and surveillance, report enemy activity, terrain, and battle damage, and apply skills in observation, stalking, camouflage, target detection, and range estimation.

Minimum clearance: Secret

Minimum ASVAB: GT 100

ASVAB policy: Not policy-reviewed · coverage unknown · as of 2026-10-21

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: navmc-1200-1l-fy26 (source date 2025-03). Policy applicability has not been established.

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Core Skills

Close reconnaissance for intelligence collection
Control of supporting arms
Advanced communications in combat operations

Civilian Career Paths

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Intelligence Analysts

Close reconnaissance and surveillance in support of an infantry battalion's intelligence section provide field-collection experience relevant to intelligence analysis.

How to prepare: Build a short assessment using public sources that corroborates observations, identifies conflicting evidence, and distinguishes facts from judgments.

What the civilian work involves

Gather intelligence information by field observation, confidential information sources, or public records.
Validate known intelligence with data from other sources.

Notes & Sources

MOS 0317 is obsolete and no longer used in the Marine Corps table of organization; it remains in the MOS manual for existing service records.
Verified duties establish reconnaissance and intelligence collection experience, not criminal-investigation experience.

Evidence for this guidance (2 documents)

NAVMC 1200.1L (FY26, in force): MOS 0317
[1] MOS 0317 section "a. Summary"; cached text line 27427; NAVMC 1200.1L signed 2025-03-07, in force until 2026-10-01
Supports: Close reconnaissance for intelligence collection, Control of supporting arms, Advanced communications in combat operations, Intelligence Analysts (O*NET 33-3021.06)
O*NET: Intelligence Analysts
[2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data
Supports: Intelligence Analysts (O*NET 33-3021.06)

Defense contractor jobs for 0317

Predecessor codes

Historical codes with documented links to 0317. Each history page explains the change.

8541Scout Sniper

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