8224 - Regional Affairs Officer-Middle East

Summary

Regional Affairs Officers (RAO)s are officers who have completed extensive graduate-level study of international relations, with an emphasis in regional studies appropriate to a designated region, and/or have extensive in-country pol-mil experience in a designated region.

RAOs lack proficiency in regional language and therefore do not qualify as a Foreign Area Officer (FAO).

This FMOS will be assigned and voided only by the authority of CMC (MM).

This FMOS will be automatically voided on assignment of the FAO FMOS for the designated region.

Prerequisites

Must have either graduate work in international relations/regional affairs for the designated region, extensive politico-military experience in the region, or a combination of both.

Requirements

Security requirement: TS/SCI security clearance eligibility based on a tier 5 background investigation.

Display extensive knowledge of a designated region to include military forces, culture, history, sociology, economics, politics, and geography.

POI CID

None

Duties

Uses the knowledge of military forces, culture, history, sociology, economics, politics, and geography of selected areas of the world to perform duties as directed.

Performs in operational and strategic level Marine Corps, Joint, or Combined staffs in operations, planning, security cooperation, or intelligence billets; or within the Defense Attaché System (DAS).

Political Scientists 19-3094.

None.

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