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Military Corrections Specialist Careers

May 13, 2008 By admin

Serving in the United States Marine Corps as a Corrections Officer can be a very rewarding specialty. Its is a sub specialty of the Correctional and Military police officer field, but is respectable and comes with its own set of duties and responsibilities. The Corrections Specialist in the Marine Corps assists their Commander of their unit by working to uphold and enforce the law. Not only do they act as jailers and correctional officers, but they also are licensed law enforcement military officers that work to ensure law and order.

As part of the United States Marine Corps Correctional field, you will work to engage and perform the following duties; providing and assessing a military posture, preventing and quelling riots and disturbances, preventing and suppressing crimes against military personnel, working to maintain and assist in keeping order at military installations, and preserving control and military order. The Marine Corps Correctional Office has duties and additional responsibilities that are assigned to them. These can be working in providing security and assisting in the care, restraint, and confinement of prisoners held in internment facilities and prison facilities.

Some of the personnel that are confined can be held in brigs, prisons or other military facilities. Others may be in lock up or awaiting trials. Military Correctional personnel serving in the Marine Corps may be tasked to provide twenty four hour supervision and control of Marine Corps, Navy, or other military Armed Forces correctional facilities. A Marine Corps Correctional Officer is responsible for Marine Corps Brigs, Navy Prisons, Correctional Custody Units, and other military prisons and jails. Personnel working as Marine Corps Corrections Specialist work to process and intake prisoners, and arrange for proper administration and placement of prisoners in the Military Corrections system. Corrections Personnel and Corrections Officers work in the Marine Corps to arrange for confinement, intake, and release of prisoners as properly scheduled.

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On occasion they work as part of a pursuit team to chase deserters, and to track down military personnel who are Absent without leave, or AWOL, and they work to apprehend and restrain escaped prisoners and work to perform a variety of other corrections and correctional duties as assigned. Corrections Specialists in the Marine Corps must have a ASVAB score on the GT section of at least a 100 or greater, and they should be detail oriented, slow to anger and not have any criminal record of any time.

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