Collect, analyze, and disseminate intelligence to support Marine operations. Brief commanders on enemy capabilities and tactical situations.
Officer - College Degree Required, Security Clearance
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Intelligence Officers run the shop that tells a commander what an adversary is likely to do and why. A commission comes first through the Naval Academy, ROTC, or Officer Candidates School, followed by The Basic School with every new Marine officer and then the intelligence course. Your days are spent inside a secure facility building assessments, directing collection, leading analysts, and briefing officers who will act on what you say. You supervise a section of enlisted intelligence Marines, which means counseling, evaluations, training plans, and defending their work upward. Aboard ship with a Marine Expeditionary Unit you are the commander's window onto a coastline the force may have to operate along.
You learn the intelligence cycle end to end: planning collection, fusing reporting from many sources, writing assessments, and stating confidence honestly. Briefing becomes a core competency, because an analysis a decision maker cannot follow in four minutes has no effect. Managing analysts teaches you to supervise technical work, allocate scarce attention, and quality control a product you did not write yourself. You hold a top secret clearance with access to compartmented information, which is the single most portable asset the job produces. Planning beside operations officers teaches you how intelligence actually plugs into a military decision.
The work builds intellectual honesty, since overstating certainty gets people hurt and understating it gets you ignored. You develop comfort with ambiguity, because the answer is almost never complete and the deadline arrives anyway. Speaking hard truths to senior officers in a crowded room grows a specific kind of professional courage. You learn to think about how an adversary sees you, a habit that reshapes how you read any competitive situation. Responsibility for young analysts also teaches you to develop people rather than simply use them.
Cleared analytic and management work is a substantial career field and former intelligence officers move into it easily. Federal agencies, defense intelligence contractors, and corporate risk and threat intelligence teams hire directly from this background. The combination of an active clearance, a leadership record, and demonstrated writing and briefing ability is unusual, and employers price it accordingly. Many officers go on to graduate school in international affairs or business, often while already working in the field. Others move into corporate security, due diligence, and investigative research, where structured analysis is the whole product.
Mornings find you in the intelligence section pulling overnight reporting and feeding the commander's morning update slides. Much of your day is spent fusing signals, imagery, and human source reporting into an enemy picture, then standing at the map to brief staff planners on likely enemy courses of action. You work shoulder to shoulder with analysts and the operations shop inside the combat operations center, sharpening estimates as new intelligence lands.
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Related field: Marine intelligence — CI/HUMINT perspective. Source occupation: Marines 0211.
A counterintelligence/human intelligence Marine describes his journey of lateral moving and his experiences in the 0211 job field on Camp Foster, Okinawa, Japan, June 28, 2022. CI/HUMINT Marines detect and/or deny espionage, terrorism, sabotage and subversion by an adversary, and collect information through interpersonal contact. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Cpl. Colton K. Garrett)
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$77,814–$144,392
2026 basic pay only; the same grade and service time pay the same across jobs. Promotions are assumed, not promised. Excludes allowances, bonuses and special pays.
Possibilities for serving Marines, including those in support roles—not guaranteed admission or awards. Individual eligibility, assignment, selection, available training or competition places and successful qualification apply.
Earned skill levels: tan, gray, green, brown and black belt. Applies across combat and support specialties.
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Examples of higher service ranks
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Official military rank referenceMarine NCO grades are E-4 and E-5; staff NCO grades are E-6 through E-9. At E-8 and E-9, first sergeant/sergeant major and master sergeant/master gunnery sergeant have distinct leadership roles. Warrant and commissioned officers are separate career tracks. This service-wide structure is not a verified promotion ceiling for this MOS.
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Collect, analyze, and disseminate intelligence to support Marine operations. Brief commanders on enemy capabilities and tactical situations.
Intelligence Officers run the shop that tells a commander what an adversary is likely to do and why. A commission comes first through the Naval Academy, ROTC, or Officer Candidates School, followed by The Basic School with every new Marine officer and then the intelligence course. Your days are spent inside a secure facility building assessments, directing collection, leading analysts, and briefing officers who will act on what you say. You supervise a section of enlisted intelligence Marines, which means counseling, evaluations, training plans, and defending their work upward. Aboard ship with a Marine Expeditionary Unit you are the commander's window onto a coastline the force may have to operate along.
You learn the intelligence cycle end to end: planning collection, fusing reporting from many sources, writing assessments, and stating confidence honestly. Briefing becomes a core competency, because an analysis a decision maker cannot follow in four minutes has no effect. Managing analysts teaches you to supervise technical work, allocate scarce attention, and quality control a product you did not write yourself. You hold a top secret clearance with access to compartmented information, which is the single most portable asset the job produces. Planning beside operations officers teaches you how intelligence actually plugs into a military decision.
Cleared analytic and management work is a substantial career field and former intelligence officers move into it easily. Federal agencies, defense intelligence contractors, and corporate risk and threat intelligence teams hire directly from this background. The combination of an active clearance, a leadership record, and demonstrated writing and briefing ability is unusual, and employers price it accordingly. Many officers go on to graduate school in international affairs or business, often while already working in the field. Others move into corporate security, due diligence, and investigative research, where structured analysis is the whole product.
Officer - College Degree Required, Security Clearance. This is the catalog's listed requirement, not an individual eligibility decision. Confirm the current standard and any exceptions with the service.
A civilian can pursue this specialty through an officer accession path, subject to eligibility and assignment. Confirm the current status of this specific classification with an official recruiter.
Catalog sources consulted: 2026-09-26. This is not an entry-by-entry verification date. No record-specific verification date is recorded. Occupation audit evidence reviewed: 2026-09-26; this does not re-verify every requirement.
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NAVMC 1200.1L, FY26 Military Occupational Specialties Manual (effective October 1, 2025), chapter 1 · reviewed 2026-09-26
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Deployment likelihood: Moderate*
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