Marine Corps MOS · Support

0471 Personnel Retrieval and Processing Specialist

Current service use not established

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Overview

A Personnel Retrieval and Processing Specialist searches for and recovers human remains and personal effects, then processes, tentatively identifies, transports, inters, or disinters them. This specialist establishes collection points and interment sites in combat and noncombat environments, including joint, single service, and NBCR theaters of operations.

Minimum clearance: Secret

Core Skills

Search and recovery of human remains
Remains processing and tentative identification
Interment and disinterment of human remains
Establishment of remains collection points

Civilian Career Paths

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Funeral Attendants

Experience processing, transporting, and interring human remains provides a foundation for casket handling and funeral-service support.

How to prepare: Ask a funeral home about supervised orientation in casket placement and funeral-service procedures.

What the civilian work involves

Perform a variety of tasks during funerals to assist funeral directors and to ensure that services run smoothly and as planned.
Close caskets at appropriate point in services.
Place caskets in parlors or chapels prior to wakes or funerals.

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (2 documents)

NAVMC 1200.1L (FY26, in force): MOS 0471
[1] MOS 0471 section "a. Summary"; cached text line 29068; NAVMC 1200.1L signed 2025-03-07, in force until 2026-10-01
Supports: Search and recovery of human remains, Remains processing and tentative identification, Interment and disinterment of human remains, Establishment of remains collection points, Funeral Attendants (O*NET 39-4021.00)
[2]NAVMC 1200.1L MOS 0471: Related SOC titles · MOS 0471 section "e. Related Standard Occupational Classification"
Supports: Funeral Attendants (O*NET 39-4021.00)
O*NET: Funeral Attendants
[3] O*NET 30.3 occupational data
Supports: Funeral Attendants (O*NET 39-4021.00)

Defense contractor jobs for 0471

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