Collect, analyze, and disseminate intelligence information. Prepare intelligence reports and briefings for commanders.
ASVAB CL: 110 or GT: 110
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Intelligence Specialists collect, analyze, and present the information commanders use to plan. Work happens largely in secure spaces producing assessments, briefings, and intelligence products. You maintain databases, track developments, and answer specific intelligence requirements under deadline. Briefing skills matter because analysis that cannot be delivered clearly has no effect. Deployed assignments bring the work directly alongside operational planning.
You learn analytic methods, source evaluation, and clear technical writing for decision makers. Briefing and presentation are trained explicitly as professional skills. The job builds fluency with intelligence databases, mapping tools, and analytic software. You gain understanding of how collection disciplines complement each other. All Intelligence Specialists hold a security clearance.
The job builds intellectual honesty about what evidence actually supports. You develop the ability to work productively with incomplete and contradictory information. It teaches concise writing, which is rarer and more valuable than most realize. Intelligence Specialists tend to become curious, skeptical, articulate people. You also gain confidence briefing senior audiences early.
The clearance plus analytic experience is one of the most marketable combinations available to a junior veteran. Defense and intelligence contractors hire directly, often above comparable civilian entry salaries. Federal agencies recruit from this population and prior clearance shortens hiring considerably. Corporate threat intelligence, fraud analysis, business intelligence, and risk roles are realistic with modest upskilling. Many veterans add a degree while working and move into senior analytic or management tracks.
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Mornings begin in the intel shop pulling overnight message traffic and updating the enemy situation board. You spend the day analyzing reporting, building intelligence products, and preparing briefings that commanders rely on for decisions. Much of your time is spent at a workstation fusing data, then presenting your assessment to the operations team.
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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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$43,902–$74,948
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.
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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 information. Prepare intelligence reports and briefings for commanders.
Intelligence Specialists collect, analyze, and present the information commanders use to plan. Work happens largely in secure spaces producing assessments, briefings, and intelligence products. You maintain databases, track developments, and answer specific intelligence requirements under deadline. Briefing skills matter because analysis that cannot be delivered clearly has no effect. Deployed assignments bring the work directly alongside operational planning.
You learn analytic methods, source evaluation, and clear technical writing for decision makers. Briefing and presentation are trained explicitly as professional skills. The job builds fluency with intelligence databases, mapping tools, and analytic software. You gain understanding of how collection disciplines complement each other. All Intelligence Specialists hold a security clearance.
The clearance plus analytic experience is one of the most marketable combinations available to a junior veteran. Defense and intelligence contractors hire directly, often above comparable civilian entry salaries. Federal agencies recruit from this population and prior clearance shortens hiring considerably. Corporate threat intelligence, fraud analysis, business intelligence, and risk roles are realistic with modest upskilling. Many veterans add a degree while working and move into senior analytic or management tracks.
ASVAB CL: 110 or GT: 110. This is the catalog's listed requirement, not an individual eligibility decision. Confirm the current standard and any exceptions with the service.
This specialty can be pursued through an initial enlistment, subject to eligibility and available contracts. 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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