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805G Expeditionary Force Detainee Operations GITMO

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Overview

An Expeditionary Force Detainee Operations specialist is capable of providing safe, humane care and custody of enemy combatants, collecting intelligence for law enforcement and war crimes investigations, and executing detainee operations missions. The specialist is familiar with detainee camp procedures, unarmed self-defense, the Detainee Information Management System, Islamic cultural awareness, forced cell extractions, escort operations, and restraint application.

Core Skills

  • Detainee escort and restraint procedures
  • Forced cell extraction procedure familiarity
  • Detainee Information Management System familiarity
  • Intelligence collection for law enforcement investigations

Civilian Career Paths

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Correctional Officers and Jailers

Safe, humane detainee custody, escort operations, restraint procedures, and camp operating procedures transfer directly to correctional custody work.

How to prepare: Compare your education and experience with a target agency's entry standards before applying for its academy pipeline. Entry typically requires a high school diploma, academy training, and on-the-job training; minimum age, commonly 18 to 21, and state certification vary by agency, while federal agencies may impose a maximum entry age and the Federal Bureau of Prisons requires a bachelor's degree or several years of qualifying counseling, assistance, or supervision experience.

What the civilian work involves
  • Conduct head counts to ensure that each prisoner is present.
  • Monitor conduct of prisoners in housing unit, or during work or recreational activities, according to established policies, regulations, and procedures, to prevent escape or violence.

Intelligence Analysts

Collecting intelligence for law enforcement and war crimes investigations provides a foundation for criminal-intelligence work, with further preparation needed in corroboration and analysis.

How to prepare: Build a criminal-intelligence writing sample using public records that corroborates information across sources, identifies patterns, and separates supported findings from uncertainty.

What the civilian work involves
  • Validate known intelligence with data from other sources.
  • Gather, analyze, correlate, or evaluate information from a variety of resources, such as law enforcement databases.
  • Analyze intelligence data to identify patterns and trends in criminal activity.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Microsoft Excel

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (4 documents)
  1. NAVPERS 18068F Vol II (NEOCS, Jul 2026 edition): NEC 805G

    [1] NEC entry "805G - Expeditionary Force Detainee Operations GITMO"; cached text line 20721; NAVPERS 18068F Vol II, 2026-07 edition

    Supports: Detainee escort and restraint procedures, Forced cell extraction procedure familiarity, Detainee Information Management System familiarity, Intelligence collection for law enforcement investigations, Correctional Officers and Jailers (O*NET 33-3012.00), Intelligence Analysts (O*NET 33-3021.06)

  2. O*NET: Correctional Officers and Jailers

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Correctional Officers and Jailers (O*NET 33-3012.00)

  3. Bureau of Labor Statistics: Correctional Officers and Bailiffs

    [3] How to Become a Correctional Officer or Bailiff; Education, Training, Licenses, Certifications, and Registrations; page dated 2026-08-27, retrieved 2026-09-24

    Supports: Correctional Officers and Jailers (O*NET 33-3012.00)

  4. O*NET: Intelligence Analysts

    [4] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Intelligence Analysts (O*NET 33-3021.06)

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