As a Veterinarian in the Army, you may be able to participate in one of many educational opportunities that will help you develop a specialty rarely offered in the civilian community.

These opportunities include Masters and Doctorate programs in areas that include:

• Public Health
• Tropical Medicine
• Virology
• Pharmacology and Physiology
• Toxicology

Residency programs in Pathology, Laboratory Animal Medicine and Clinical Medicine are also offered.

Whatever you decide, the Army Veterinary Corps is an exciting place to practice. While there are three broad areas of focus within the Veterinary Corps: animal medicine, veterinary public health and research and development, there is only one specialty — Veterinarian.

To qualify for an Officer appointment in the Army Veterinary Corps, you must:

• Be a United States citizen
• Be a graduate of an accredited United States School of Veterinary medicine.
• Have a current unrestricted license to practice veterinary medicine in a state of the United States, District of Columbia, Puerto Rico or a territory of the United States
• Be 21-40 years of age (veterinarians over age 40 may apply for an age waiver)
• Have a favorable security investigation completed.
• Meet the prescribed medical and moral standards for appointment as a commissioned officer.
• Be a graduate of a veterinary college accredited by the American Veterinary Medical Association in the U.S. Puerto Rico, or Canada. Foreign vet graduates must have passed the Education Council of Foreign Veterinary Graduates examination to be eligible.