The Optical Laboratory Specialist is primarily responsible for assembling eyeglasses that utilize pre-surfaced single-vision lenses.
68H1O - Skill Level One
Optical Laboratory Specialist: Surfaces lens blanks, fabricates, repairs and assembles prescription spectacles. Maintain tools and equipment.
68H2O - Skill Level Two
Optical Laboratory Sergeant: Surfaces lens blanks, fabricates, repairs and assembles prescription spectacles. Maintain tools and equipment. provides technical guidance to subordinates. Performs prescription related administration.
68H3O - Skill Level Three
Optical Laboratory NCO: Provides technical guidance, inspects completed spectacles, and insures quality control standards. Develops stock levels, requisitions, stores and maintains optical supplies and equipment. Prepares and conducts training programs and instructs on preventive maintenance and safety procedures.
68H4O - Skill Level Four
Senior Optical Laboratory NCO: Determines personnel requirements, establishes priorities and organizes work schedules. Plan layout of work areas. Prepares and conducts training programs. Inspect to ensure a safe, clean and orderly working environment. Supervise quality control procedures. Drafts and prepares budget estimates and monitors records of cost data and expenditures. Perform staff, budget and advisory duties. Prepare other technical, administrative and personnel reports. Coordinate activities of optical laboratory with medical treatment facilities.
68H5O - Skill Level Five
First Sergeant: The First Sergeant is the senior NCO in companies, batteries and troops. The position of first sergeant is similar to that of the CSM in importance, responsibility and prestige. As far back as the Revolutionary War period, first sergeants have enforced discipline, fostered loyalty and commitment in their soldiers, maintained duty rosters and made morning reports to their company commanders. Since today’s first sergeants maintain daily contact with and are responsible for training and ensuring the health and welfare of all of the unit’s soldiers and families, this position requires extraordinary leadership and professional competence. First sergeants hold formations, instruct platoon sergeants and assist the commander in daily unit operations. Though first sergeants supervise routine administrative duties their principle duty is training soldiers. The CSM, first sergeant and other key NCOs, must understand the organization’s collective mission essential tasks during METL-based training. Through NCO development programs, performance counseling and other guidance, first sergeants are the Army’s most important mentors in developing subordinate NCOs.
Operations Sergeant: The Operations Sergeant assists in organizing, and coordinating the company/battalion/brigade and supporting unit’s operations. He is the noncommissioned officer in charge (NCOIC) of the operations in the absence of the Executive/Operations Officer. The Operations Sergeant advises the Company/Battalion/Brigade Commander on the current and future employment of the unit. He maintains the current operational status of the unit. He organizes, deploys and supervises the field Tactical Operations Center (TOC).
Operations Sergeant: The Operations Sergeant assists in organizing, and coordinating the company/battalion/brigade and supporting unit’s operations. He is the noncommissioned officer in charge (NCOIC) of the operations in the absence of the Executive/Operations Officer. The Operations Sergeant advises the Company/Battalion/Brigade Commander on the current and future employment of the unit. He maintains the current operational status of the unit. He organizes, deploys and supervises the field Tactical Operations Center (TOC).
School Information
School: 872E Location: MEDICAL COURSES, YORKTOWN NAVAL WP, VA
Course: 311-68H10 Phase:
Course Title: OPTICAL LABORATORY SPECIALIST
872E Course: 311-68H10 Phase: Course Length: 24 Weeks 0.0 Days
Verifiable Prerequisites
PULHES 323222 Required
Must meet height weight std IAW AR 600-9 YES Required
Normal Red/Green (RG) Perception YES Required
Physical Demand Rating MEDIUM - LIFT OCCASIONAL 50 LB, FREQUENT 25 LB Required
Career Management Field 68 - MEDICAL Required
Prerequisite Courses
There are no Prerequisites in the Prerequisite Courses section. See other sections.
Text Prerequisites
Active Army Corporal or SPC and below. National Guard and Army Reserve SSG (see special information) and below, and DOD Civilians. The service remaining requirement for in-service AA soldiers upon completion of this course is 20 months. IAW AR 614-200, Chapter 4, Table 4-1. Time in service remaining requirements for the Reserve Component is governed by NGR 351-1 or AR 135-200. Soldiers must have a high school diploma or GED equivalency and completion of high school or college algebra with a final grade of "C" or higher. Enlisted women who are pregnant must be processed IAW AR 635-200. Prior to departure from home station, soldiers are required to reenlist or extend their term of enlistmment to meet the time in service (TIS) remaining requirements upon completion of the course. When reporting for training and it is determined that soldiers do not meet TIS remaining requirements, they will not be accepted into the course they requested unless they reenlist or extend to meet the TIS remaining requirements. The physical serials (PULHES) applies to initial entry soldiers only, and is
not to be used as a prerequisite for soldiers reclassifying into this MOS. A minimun score of 100 in aptitude area GM in Armed Forces Vocational Apptitude Battery (ASVAB) tests administered prior to January 2002. A minimun score of 97 after 2 January 2002, and a minimun score of 98 on or after 1 July 2004. Soldiers must have no history of a felony conviction, no history of conviction of crimes involving an out of hospital patient or a patient or resident of a medical care facility, financial exploitation of a person entrusted to the care of the applicant, any weapons/ammunition/explosives/arson charges, any drug activity involving illegal possession, buying, selling, or distribution (dealing) of controlled substances or synthetics, violence against person or property and no sexual misconduct. SECURITY: None
Course Scope:
To provide necessary knowledge of opthalmic optics, ocular anatomy and physiology, optical laboratory supply and administration, and optical laboratory procedures sufficient to completely fabricate and dispense prescription military eyewear in both fixed and field environments. Upon successful completion of the course, graduates will be awarded the 68H10 M0S.
Special Information:
Course is conducted at the Tri-Service Optical School, (TOPS), Naval Opthalmic Support and Training Activity, (NOSTRA) P. O. Box 350, Naval Weapons Station, Yorktown, VA 23691-0350. Course is 24-weeks in duration. Active Army utilize DA Form 4187 and include DA Form 2, DA Form 2-1, and letters of recommendation from the chain of command evaluating applicants potential and ability to complete this course to CDR, PERSCOM TAPC-EPT-F, 2461 EisenhowerAve. Alexandria, VA 22331-0400. National Guard and Army Reserve SSGs' will receive a certificate of completion for attending this course, additional skill level 30 training is required to be awarded the MOS. ALL REQUESTS FOR WAIVERS MUST BE SUBMITTED TO: CDR, AMEDD Center & School, AMEDD Personnel Proponent Directorate, ATTN: MCCS- DE, 2427 Hood Street, Fort Sam Houston, TX 78234-7584.
Course: 311-68H10 Phase:
Course Title: OPTICAL LABORATORY SPECIALIST
872E Course: 311-68H10 Phase: Course Length: 24 Weeks 0.0 Days
Verifiable Prerequisites
PULHES 323222 Required
Must meet height weight std IAW AR 600-9 YES Required
Normal Red/Green (RG) Perception YES Required
Physical Demand Rating MEDIUM - LIFT OCCASIONAL 50 LB, FREQUENT 25 LB Required
Career Management Field 68 - MEDICAL Required
Prerequisite Courses
There are no Prerequisites in the Prerequisite Courses section. See other sections.
Text Prerequisites
Active Army Corporal or SPC and below. National Guard and Army Reserve SSG (see special information) and below, and DOD Civilians. The service remaining requirement for in-service AA soldiers upon completion of this course is 20 months. IAW AR 614-200, Chapter 4, Table 4-1. Time in service remaining requirements for the Reserve Component is governed by NGR 351-1 or AR 135-200. Soldiers must have a high school diploma or GED equivalency and completion of high school or college algebra with a final grade of "C" or higher. Enlisted women who are pregnant must be processed IAW AR 635-200. Prior to departure from home station, soldiers are required to reenlist or extend their term of enlistmment to meet the time in service (TIS) remaining requirements upon completion of the course. When reporting for training and it is determined that soldiers do not meet TIS remaining requirements, they will not be accepted into the course they requested unless they reenlist or extend to meet the TIS remaining requirements. The physical serials (PULHES) applies to initial entry soldiers only, and is
not to be used as a prerequisite for soldiers reclassifying into this MOS. A minimun score of 100 in aptitude area GM in Armed Forces Vocational Apptitude Battery (ASVAB) tests administered prior to January 2002. A minimun score of 97 after 2 January 2002, and a minimun score of 98 on or after 1 July 2004. Soldiers must have no history of a felony conviction, no history of conviction of crimes involving an out of hospital patient or a patient or resident of a medical care facility, financial exploitation of a person entrusted to the care of the applicant, any weapons/ammunition/explosives/arson charges, any drug activity involving illegal possession, buying, selling, or distribution (dealing) of controlled substances or synthetics, violence against person or property and no sexual misconduct. SECURITY: None
Course Scope:
To provide necessary knowledge of opthalmic optics, ocular anatomy and physiology, optical laboratory supply and administration, and optical laboratory procedures sufficient to completely fabricate and dispense prescription military eyewear in both fixed and field environments. Upon successful completion of the course, graduates will be awarded the 68H10 M0S.
Special Information:
Course is conducted at the Tri-Service Optical School, (TOPS), Naval Opthalmic Support and Training Activity, (NOSTRA) P. O. Box 350, Naval Weapons Station, Yorktown, VA 23691-0350. Course is 24-weeks in duration. Active Army utilize DA Form 4187 and include DA Form 2, DA Form 2-1, and letters of recommendation from the chain of command evaluating applicants potential and ability to complete this course to CDR, PERSCOM TAPC-EPT-F, 2461 EisenhowerAve. Alexandria, VA 22331-0400. National Guard and Army Reserve SSGs' will receive a certificate of completion for attending this course, additional skill level 30 training is required to be awarded the MOS. ALL REQUESTS FOR WAIVERS MUST BE SUBMITTED TO: CDR, AMEDD Center & School, AMEDD Personnel Proponent Directorate, ATTN: MCCS- DE, 2427 Hood Street, Fort Sam Houston, TX 78234-7584.
