Special Forces Career, Salary and Skills
No national wage record is published for this occupation in the current BLS dataset.
Occupation description
Implement unconventional operations by air, land, or sea during combat or peacetime as members of elite teams. These activities include offensive raids, demolitions, reconnaissance, search and rescue, and counterterrorism. In addition to their combat training, special forces members often have specialized training in swimming, diving, parachuting, survival, emergency medicine, and foreign languages. Duties include conducting advanced reconnaissance operations and collecting intelligence information; recruiting, training, and equipping friendly forces; conducting raids and invasions on enemy territories; laying and detonating explosives for demolition targets; locating, identifying, defusing, and disposing of ordnance; and operating and maintaining sophisticated communications equipment.
O*NET code
55-3018.00
Job zone
Not recorded
Typical education
Not recorded
Experience
Not recorded
National salary and employment
Salary data is not available for this occupation in the current BLS dataset.
Career and skills data: O*NET 31.0 (onetcenter.org). Figures are published survey estimates, not real-time market data.