For almost half a century the United States military services have incorporated formal literacy programs into job training for those enlistees who are less than fully qualified. Over the years, several successful job-specific reading programs have evolved. In 1975, the Army began the Functional Literacy (FLIT) Program, a program based on a psycholinguistic, information-processing model designed to enable soldiers to use their job reading materials effectively. The program consists of two categories of exercises: "Reading To Do" (instruction in locating information for immediate use); and "Reading To Learn" (instruction in using metacognitive reading skills for problem solving). Another job literacy program--the Experimental Functional Skills Program in Reading (XFSP/Read)--focuses on teaching "Reading To Learn" processes that facilitate input and retrieval of job knowledge from long-term memory, in addition to providing instruction in "Reading To Do" activities. The Basic Skills Education Program (BSEP) in reading, a third successful job literacy effort, utilizes the results of a task analysis of 95 different military occupations, and tailors instruction to those job-reading tasks common to the most populous military occupations overseas. The text, integrating knowledge of military culture and interpersonal skills with job information, is used in combination with exercise modules and mastery tests to teach job-specific "Reading To Learn" and "Reading To Do" tasks. All three programs succeed in teaching job-specific reading skills to intermediate literates. (Fifteen references are appended.) (MM)