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5512 Member, The Commandant's Own, U.S. Marine Drum and Bugle Corps

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Overview

A member of The Commandant's Own, U.S. Marine Drum and Bugle Corps performs music and related duties for military ceremonies, official functions, community relations, recruiting, and Marine Corps esprit de corps. The Marine also augments barracks security during contingency operations in an emergency or combat environment.

Minimum clearance: Secret

Minimum ASVAB: GT 100 or CL 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

  • Musical support for ceremonies and official functions
  • Contingency augmentation of barracks security

Civilian Career Paths

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Musicians and Singers

Performing music for military ceremonies, official functions, and community relations transfers directly to civilian instrumental performance.

How to prepare: Prepare a recorded instrumental performance sample and repertoire list for civilian ensemble auditions.

What the civilian work involves
  • Perform before live audiences in concerts, recitals, educational presentations, and other social gatherings.
  • Specialize in playing a specific family of instruments or a particular type of music.

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (2 documents)
  1. NAVMC 1200.1L (FY26, in force): MOS 5512

    [1] MOS 5512 section "a. Summary"; cached text line 45812; NAVMC 1200.1L signed 2025-03-07, in force until 2026-10-01

    Supports: Musical support for ceremonies and official functions, Contingency augmentation of barracks security, Musicians and Singers (O*NET 27-2042.00)

    [2]NAVMC 1200.1L MOS 5512: Related SOC titles · MOS 5512 section "e. Related Standard Occupational Classification"

    Supports: Musicians and Singers (O*NET 27-2042.00)

  2. O*NET: Musicians and Singers

    [3] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Musicians and Singers (O*NET 27-2042.00)

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Predecessor codes

Historical codes with documented links to 5512. Each history page explains the change.

9812Member, the Commandant’S Own, U.S. Marine Drum and Bugle Corps

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