HOTFILL DUE MONDAY AT NOON – Medical Officer Opportunity for Master’s and Tour with Spec Ops and Low- Intensity Conflict
Please see the advertisement for this unique opportunity below:
Over the last 30 months, we’ve had a medical officer detailed to the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Irregular Warfare and Counterterrorism (ODASD IWCT) here in the Office of the Assistance Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict (OASD(SO/LIC)). She has focused on shaping the Department’s policy, authorities, and guidance in providing medical support during irregular warfare operations, to include resistance efforts. This officer’s ongoing work has received attention and support from senior DoD leaders, including a recent endorsement and further direction from the Deputy Secretary of Defense that will continue these efforts well into the future. I want to ensure these initiatives, critical to our ability to provide casualty care during military operations in semi- or fully- contested environments, continue unabated. Her replacement will join SO/LIC June 1, 2024, and complete a 24-month detail, ending in 2026.
In response to the success of this effort, SO/LIC is continuing this irregular warfare (IW) Military detail for health professionals. The detail will consist of a one-year executive-level master’s degree program (see attached) in IW at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) in Monterey, California, beginning summer of 2025, followed by a two-year utilization tour at OASD SO/LIC in Washington, DC, from summer 2026 to summer 2028.
This detail (a developmental trainee assignment – DTA) is a career-broadening opportunity for medical officers and increases the breadth of IW specialists within the Department. Selectees will receive education focused on IW and its unique sustainment and medical requirements. After completing the master’s program, officers will apply their studies to shaping the department’s IW-related medical policy, authorities, and guidance and integrating the concepts into current and future strategic competition efforts. As SO/LIC’s only medical professional, this officer also supports SO/LIC’s Service secretary-like responsibilities related to health service support for U.S. Special Operations Command and special operations forces.
SO/LIC will cover the cost of tuition at NPS, and the selected detailee’s Service will cover required temporary duty (TDY) or permanent change of station (PCS) costs. Upon graduation from NPS, the detailee’s Service will assign them to a Service-specific billet in the National Capital Region then detailed to SO/LIC.
The Air Force and Army have been exceptional with accommodating our first two long-term details, and I greatly appreciate their continued support.
If your respective Service would be willing to support a detailee, please let us know if you have nominees who meet the following criteria:
Required:
· TS/SCI security clearance
· O-5 (or O-5-select)
· Operational experience (3-year assignment or 2 deployments with an operational unit)
· No pending or previous disciplinary actions
· Nominee’s SURF/ORB
· Resume
· 3 most recent performance reports
· Commander’s endorsement memo
Desired:
· Staff officer experience (any level)
· Completed Joint Professional Military Education I
· Experience in the joint, interagency, and/or special operations environment
Fully completed and combined nomination packages will be emailed to CAPT Shauna O’Sullivan NLT 1200 EST Monday, May 01, 2024.
SO/LIC’s selected top candidates (3-5) will be asked to interview, and the final selection will be made by May 30, 2024, to best support the Services’ assignment cycles and give the selected officer a one-year lead time prior to assignment to NPS.
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