JOB DUTIES

• Supervision of confinement and detention operations


• External security to facilities


• Counseling/guidance to individual prisoners within a rehabilitative program


• Records of prisoners/internees and their programs

Those who want to serve must first take the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery, a series of tests that helps you better understand your strengths and identify which Army jobs are best for you.

Job training for an internment/resettlement specialist requires 10 weeks of Basic Combat Training and seven weeks of Advanced Individual Training with on-the-job instruction. Part of this time is spent in the classroom and in the field.



Some of the skills you’ll learn are:

• Military laws and jurisdictions


• Self-defense and use of firearms


• Interpersonal communications skills


• Search/restraint and custody/control procedures