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0848 Field Artillery Operations Chief

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Overview

A Field Artillery Operations Chief supports field artillery and mortar fire direction centers, operations and training sections, sensor sections, and survey sections. This Marine maintains maps, journals, and survey records, prepares orders and reports, supports meteorological stations and target acquisition radar, and trains personnel in radar, meteorological, survey, acoustic, and fire direction procedures.

Minimum clearance: Secret

Minimum ASVAB: GT 105

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

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Core Skills

  • Operations map overlays and survey records
  • Atmospheric observation and weather data interpretation
  • Target acquisition radar setup and maintenance support

Civilian Career Paths

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Surveying and Mapping Technicians

Preparing operations maps and overlays, maintaining survey records, and working in artillery survey sections transfer directly to civilian mapping support.

How to prepare: Complete a hands-on ESRI ArcGIS mapping project using public geographic data to create overlays and document checks for map-layer accuracy.

What the civilian work involves
  • Check all layers of maps to ensure accuracy, identifying and marking errors and making corrections.
  • Monitor mapping work or the updating of maps to ensure accuracy, inclusion of new or changed information, or compliance with rules and regulations.
  • Produce or update overlay maps to show information boundaries, water locations, or topographic features on various base maps or at different scales.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • ESRI ArcGIS software
  • Autodesk AutoCAD

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (2 documents)
  1. NAVMC 1200.1L (FY26, in force): MOS 0848

    [1] MOS 0848 section "a. Summary"; cached text line 31194; NAVMC 1200.1L signed 2025-03-07, in force until 2026-10-01

    Supports: Operations map overlays and survey records, Atmospheric observation and weather data interpretation, Target acquisition radar setup and maintenance support, Surveying and Mapping Technicians (O*NET 17-3031.00)

  2. O*NET: Surveying and Mapping Technicians

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Surveying and Mapping Technicians (O*NET 17-3031.00)

Defense contractor jobs for 0848

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