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1732 Civil Affairs Specialist

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Overview

A Civil Affairs Specialist integrates, plans, and conducts civil affairs and civil military operations in combat and noncombat environments to support Marine air ground task force operations. This reserve component specialist conducts targeted civil reconnaissance and civil engagements to inform, influence, shape, and gain access to the cognitive civil environment.

Minimum clearance: Secret

Minimum ASVAB: GT 100

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

  • Targeted reconnaissance of civilian environments
  • Civil engagement for information and influence
  • Integration of civil-military operational plans

Civilian Career Paths

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Public Relations Specialists

Targeted civil engagements to inform and influence civilian environments transfer to community relationship building and public communication planning.

How to prepare: Build a sample community engagement portfolio with an outreach plan and public-facing communication samples for community relations openings.

What the civilian work involves
  • Establish or maintain cooperative relationships with representatives of community, consumer, employee, or public interest groups.
  • Plan or direct development or communication of programs to maintain favorable public or stockholder perceptions of an organization's accomplishments, agenda, or environmental responsibility.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Canva
  • Microsoft PowerPoint

Business Continuity Planners

Planning and integrating civil-military operations provides a foundation for coordinating continuity plans and recovery communications.

How to prepare: Develop a sample organizational continuity plan and test its recovery communications through a tabletop exercise.

What the civilian work involves
  • Develop emergency management plans for recovery decision making and communications, continuity of critical departmental processes, or temporary shut-down of non-critical departments to ensure continuity of operation and governance.
  • Test documented disaster recovery strategies and plans.
  • Establish, maintain, or test call trees to ensure appropriate communication during disaster.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft SharePoint

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (3 documents)
  1. NAVMC 1200.1L (FY26, in force): MOS 1732

    [1] MOS 1732 section "a. Summary"; cached text line 33822; NAVMC 1200.1L signed 2025-03-07, in force until 2026-10-01

    Supports: Targeted reconnaissance of civilian environments, Civil engagement for information and influence, Integration of civil-military operational plans, Public Relations Specialists (O*NET 27-3031.00), Business Continuity Planners (O*NET 13-1199.04)

    [3]NAVMC 1200.1L MOS 1732: Related SOC titles · MOS 1732 section "e. Related Standard Occupational Classification"

    Supports: Business Continuity Planners (O*NET 13-1199.04)

  2. O*NET: Public Relations Specialists

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Public Relations Specialists (O*NET 27-3031.00)

  3. O*NET: Business Continuity Planners

    [4] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Business Continuity Planners (O*NET 13-1199.04)

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