01 / Occupational profile
Your 70B occupational profile
Field and deployed medical logistics duty
Location-dependent
70Bs serving as medical platoon leaders move with maneuver units during field exercises and deployments, coordinating evacuation and treatment operations under the same environmental conditions as the supported unit.
Casualty tracking and mass-casualty coordination stress
Assignment-dependent
Responsibility for patient movement and tracking during mass-casualty events places administrative pressure on accuracy and speed with direct consequences for casualty care.
Field movement and equipment handling with the medical platoon
Common occupational factor
As a platoon leader, a 70B participates in field exercises, road marches, and equipment setup/teardown alongside platoon soldiers.
Administrative workload and facility-management pressure
Assignment-dependent
Field-grade 70Bs carry budgetary, accreditation, and facility-management responsibility for hospitals or clinics, often under tight inspection or readiness timelines.
02 / Your service
What did you actually do?
Your MOS is the starting point. Your actual assignment, era, equipment, location, and duties determine which parts of the occupational history are relevant. Use the Evidence Builder below to select your actual duties and see records that may corroborate them.
As a medical platoon leader, a 70B plans and oversees patient evacuation, treatment, and tracking operations, along with preventive medicine, supply, training, and maintenance for the platoon — duties performed in both TOE field units and fixed TDA facilities, CONUS and OCONUS. The role demands close coordination with line units during exercises and deployments, often moving with a maneuver element and managing medical logistics under the same field conditions as the soldiers it supports. At the field-grade level, 70Bs transition into facility, comptroller, information management, operations, logistics, or human resources roles within a hospital or clinic, carrying administrative and budgetary responsibility for the medical mission rather than direct patient contact. Deployed assignments can include running patient movement and tracking at a Role 2/3 facility, where accurate, fast documentation directly affects casualty care.
Duties that may vary by assignment
- Leading a medical platoon: evacuation, treatment, and patient tracking operations
- Preventive medicine, supply, training, and maintenance oversight for the platoon
- Field and deployed coordination with maneuver units during exercises and operations
- Hospital or clinic administration at the field-grade level (comptroller, logistics, HR, operations)
- Patient movement and tracking documentation, including during mass-casualty events
- Budgetary planning and facility management responsibilities
- Deployed medical logistics and evacuation coordination, where assigned
- Extended duty hours during exercises, deployments, and facility inspections
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Military service
Army · 70B Health Services Administration Officer
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Era(s) of service
Deployments
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Building your occupational history
Records matter because they can connect a job title to an individual's actual work and circumstances.
Field and deployed medical logistics duty
Records that may corroborate it
- · Deployment orders and unit location records
- · Burn pit registry enrollment, if completed
- · OERs describing medical platoon leadership and field assignments
Limit: Deployment alone does not establish a specific diagnosis; clinical findings and, where applicable, PACT Act presumptive criteria or a medical opinion are required.
Casualty tracking and mass-casualty coordination stress
Records that may corroborate it
- · After-action reports or unit medical logs from casualty events
- · Mental health or behavioral health encounter notes, if sought during or after service
- · Deployment orders and OERs describing the scope of responsibility
Limit: Administrative responsibility alone does not establish a mental health diagnosis; clinical findings, a stressor statement, and a medical opinion are required.
Field movement and equipment handling with the medical platoon
Records that may corroborate it
- · Sick call or physical therapy records during the assignment
- · Line-of-duty or incident reports for a specific injury
- · Unit training schedules documenting field exercises
Limit: Field duty alone does not establish a specific musculoskeletal diagnosis; a current diagnosis and medical opinion are required.
Administrative workload and facility-management pressure
Records that may corroborate it
- · OERs describing administrative scope and facility responsibilities
- · Duty records documenting facility assignment
- · Mental health or behavioral health encounter notes, if sought during or after service
Limit: Administrative workload alone does not establish a mental health diagnosis; clinical findings and a medical opinion are required.
04 / Evidence standard
What your MOS can — and cannot — establish
May help document
Work performed, circumstances of service, consistency of an alleged exposure, and the nature or duration of duties where supported by individual records.
Does not automatically establish
A diagnosis, medical causation, severity, percentage, presumption, or entitlement to service connection.
05 / Medical evidence
Conditions that may be relevant to the occupational history
This is not a list of conditions to claim. A veteran's actual diagnosis and individual service record determine relevance; occupational evidence is not medical causation.
Mental health +
PTSD, depression, or anxiety
Why the occupation may matter: Casualty-tracking responsibility during mass-casualty events and sustained administrative workload are recognized stressors.
Records and clinical evidence: Current diagnosis, a stressor statement or corroborating record, and a medical opinion.
Occupational history alone does not establish this diagnosis or its medical relationship to service.
Spine / joints +
Back and joint conditions
Why the occupation may matter: Field exercises and equipment handling as a medical platoon leader load the back and joints.
Records and clinical evidence: Current diagnosis, in-service treatment or duty records, and a medical opinion.
Occupational history alone does not establish this diagnosis or its medical relationship to service.
Sleep +
Insomnia and sleep disruption
Why the occupation may matter: Extended hours during exercises, deployments, and facility inspections are a recurring feature of the role.
Records and clinical evidence: Current diagnosis, duty-schedule records, and a medical opinion.
Occupational history alone does not establish this diagnosis or its medical relationship to service.
06 / Exposure record
ILER and toxic exposure
For applicable exposure-related claims, VA may review the Individual Longitudinal Exposure Record (ILER) and a toxic exposure risk activity (TERA) memorandum along with deployment and occupational records. An ILER entry does not automatically establish exposure or service connection.
07 / After a decision
Why a 70B claim may still be denied
An exposure finding is not the same as a grant. These are examples from the researched guide, not predictions about a particular case.
VA may accept
A duty or event consistent with the service record
But may deny
A diagnosis, medical relationship, or rating element
Record to examine
Decision findings, service and private treatment records, examination rationale, and medical opinions.
Administrative role assumed to carry no exposure
A non-clinical AOC does not mean no occupational demands; field exercises, deployment, and casualty-tracking stress are still documentable with the right records.
Mass-casualty administrative stress undocumented
Patient-tracking responsibility during a casualty event often leaves no individual record; after-action reports, deployment orders, and buddy statements may help establish it.
Field injury attributed to "general duties" without specifics
A vague description of platoon-leader field time is harder to evaluate than a record naming the exercise, equipment, or task involved.
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70B questions
Is a 70B a clinical provider?
No. 70B is an administrative AOC — Health Services Administration — responsible for medical platoon leadership and, later, hospital or clinic administration, not direct patient care.
Does my 70B deployment automatically establish a mental health stressor?
No. Deployment orders and unit records document where you served; a specific stressor (such as a mass-casualty event) still needs separate corroboration.
What if my field-related back pain was never treated in service?
A current diagnosis, buddy statements, and unit training or deployment records describing your platoon-leader role may help support the claim even without a contemporaneous entry.
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