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Military-Civilian Job Comparability Manual. A Guide for Employers, Vocational Counselors and Others Concerned with Employment of Veterans. Department of Defense, Washington, D.C. Assistant Secretary of Defense (Manpower and Reserve Affairs). 287p..

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ABSTRACT

This manual was developed by the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense as a guide for vocational counselors, employers, and others concerned with the employment of veterans. Military jobs in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force are listed and tabbed separately for each service. Highly related and substantially related civilian jobs are presented together with the military job descriptions in a 3-column format. Included with each job listing are: (1) the number of weeks required for entry level job training, and (2) occupational codes, with the specialty ratings. A separate section lists civilian job categories alphabetically, giving related military specialities for each category. Tabbed indexes are included separately for each service. Instructions for use of the manual are detailed, noting that combat related jobs are not separately listed. Jobs for each military service except the Navy are grouped in these eight categories: (1) electronic equipment repairmen, (2) communications and intelligence specialists, (3) medical and dental specialists, (4) other technical and allied specialists, (5) administrative specialists and clerks, (6) electrical and mechanical equipment repairmen, (7) craftsmen, and (8) service and supply handlers. (AG)

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A GUIDE FOR EMPLOYERS, VOCATIONAL COUNSELORS AND OTHERS CONCERNED WITH EMPLOYMENT OF VETERANS

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ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF DEFENSE

WASHINGTON. D. C. 20301

MANPOWER AND RESERVE AFFAIRS

FOREWORD

This manual is designed to help employers and others interested in making maximum use in civilian jobs of the skills acquired by enlisted personnel during their military tours of duty. As a direct consequence of military experience, every veteran makes a better employee. All former service personnel have learned to cooperate with others and to understand the responsibility of a job. They bring to their job discipline, emotional maturity and stability, and potential leadership qualifications. Today's military forces are complex organizations requiring large numbers of highly skilled personnel. The quality and scope of the training given by the Armed Force.; are scarcely equaled elsewhere. A very large proportion of the skills acquired by military personnel is directly useful on civilian jobs. In any labor market, the former'service personnel provide a premium resource as potential employees. Maximum utilization of this resource will benefit the employer and help the nation benefit from the fuller utilization of military trained, competent manpower.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Page

How to Use this Manual

Introduction and Technical Notes

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Section 1. Military Jobs and Comparable Civilian Jobs

Army Occupational Specialties and Comparable

Civilian Jobs

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Navy Ratings and Comparable Civilian Jobs

63-92

Marine Corps Specialties and Comparable Civilian jobs . . 93-138

Air Force Specialties and Comparable Civilian Jobs

139 -:172

Section 2.

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Civilian Job Categories and Related Military Jobs

173-246

Index (to Section 1).

Army

247-258

Navy

259-262

Marine Corps

263-272

Air Force

273-279

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HOW TO USE THIS MANUAL

This manual consists of several pages of explanatory material and three "working" sections:

Section 1. Military Jobs and Comparable Civilian Jobs

This section lists the military jobs in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force and comparable civilian jobs. The jobs for each service are shown in a separate section for each military service. The subsections are separated by tab sheets labeled Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force, as appropriate. Included with each job listing is a short description of the job duties and the specialty (MOS, Rating, AFSC code for the job). For each .job class for which entry level skill training is given the number of weeks of such training is noted in parentheses. The jobs for each military service except the Navy are grouped within eight major categories:

1. Electronic Equipment Repairman

2. Communications and Intelligence Specialists

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3. Medical and Dental Specialists

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4. Other Technical and Allied Specialists

5. Administrative Specialists and Clerks

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6. Electrical/Mechanical Equipment Repairmen

7. Craftsmen

8. Service and Supply Handlers

These categories are described in the Department of Defense pub'ication entitled Occupational Conversion Table, 1312. 1-E. As noted on page ix, combat type jobs (Infantry, Gun Crews and Seamanship Specialists) have not been separately listed in this manual. Navy jobs are listed alphabetically by Rating.

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Section 2. Civilian Job Categories and Related Military Jobs

This section lists common civilian job categories and the military jobs which are related to them. The left hand column of the 'listing specifies the civilian job category. The other columns give the related job categories in each service.

Section 3. Index

The index is organized alphabetically by military job title, separately for each service in Section 1. No index is provided for the civilian to military comparisons in Section 2. The index gives the page on which the job is listed in Section 1. The index for each service is tabbed on blue sheets, appropriately labeled.

An employer or other inciividual desiring to place a veteran, using his military skill and knowing his military job title should first look up the job in the Index and then refer to the appropriate page in Section 1.

An employer with a specific job to fill and interested in hiring a veteran with an appropriate skill should turn to Section 2, select the job category most closely related to his vacancy and find the list of comparable military skills.

Military Job Titles

Army and Marine Corps occupations are called Military Occupational Specialties, abbreviated MOS. Each MOS has a number. For example, an Army Procurement Sergeant has 76N as his MOS, a Marine Air Freight Transportation Clerk has 3122 as his MOS.

Navy occupations are called Ratings. Example, the Electronics Technician (ET) rating. Some Navy personnel may also carry a numerical designation in addition to their ratings. This designation called a Navy Enlisted Classification (NEC) indicates that the individual has certain specialized training or experience in addition to his basic rating. For example, an ET 1596 is specifically qualified to repair Special Fixed Communications equipment in addition to his basic electronic skills.

Air Force occupations are called Air Force Specialties (AFS). A man's skill category is usually referred to as AFSC, which is the

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abbreviation for the numerical Air For ce Specialty Code. For example, AFSC 916X0 identifies a Cardiopulmonary Laboratory Specialist.

In this manual many of the occupational codes, particularly those in the Air Force, contain the letter X. The X is used to signify that

several number s are used in that position in the code and are all re-

lated to the civilian job given. The specific number used in the X position may identify skill level or specialization within the job class.

Introduction and Technical Notes

This manual represents a pioneering effort to relate military to civilian job skills for the job categories of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force. It is hoped that the manual will prove useful to civilian employers and others interested in making maximum use of the wide range of talents and skills possessed by men and women who have completed one or more tours of enlisted military service.

Classification Problem

Although military and civilian job classification systems have existed side by side for many years, there have been few efforts to relate these in any systematic manner. There have been many reasons for this. A major one has been the lack of a single generally accepted civilian job classification system.

The four military services also use different systems as do such government agencies as the Department of Labor, the Bureau of the Census and the National Science Foundation. Probably the most important reason for the lack of effort in developing a comparability

table has been the technical difficulty of developing one which could stand strong critical evaluation.

The problem in a broad sense is one of classification in general

rather than occupational classification alone. All classification

systems categorize related, but not identical, items under common

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headings. All classification systems represent compromises. Let

us, for example, look at the problem of classifying a collection of

written material as a book. What characteristics identify a book?

Do we include only printed volumes? Is there a page limitation? A

size limitation? Must a book be bound or can the various pages be

clipped or tied together ? A dictionary doesn't really help. For

example, Webster's New World Dictionary gives the following

explanation:

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