Strengthening research on the history of military geology development in foreign countries and fully absorbing the experience and lessons from foreign military geology are of great significance to our country's military geology development planning and top- level design，accelerating the development of military geology technology，and enhancing the geology support capabilities of joint operations under informatized conditions. As the world's superpower and the number one military power, the United States leads the world in military geology survey capabilities. It has formed a deep development pattern of military—civilian integration，and its historical experience in development and growth is worth studying and learning. Through the research on the development of U.S. military geology, this paper systematically combed the development history of the three stages of U.S. military geology's birth，growth ，and rapid development，analyzed and summarized U.S. military geology as six aspects，including experience for reference，military—civilian integration，mission objectives，discipline development，academic exchanges，and confidentiality of the results. Combined with the actual situation of our country’s military geology work，this paper puts forward five enlightenment suggestions for the next step about this work.