Military folks: What's your MOS?

[TheOverlord]

Just got to wondering after I saw all the vets and current servicemen/women who replied to the topic on the draft...so what's your MOS?

 

[Amused]

My last MOS was 11HE9 -- a mechanized TOW gunner.

 

[warcleric]

11B Primary/12B Secondary
Ranger
Pathfinder
Air Assault
Airborne
HALO
Jungle
Sapper

 

[BoberFett]

I used to be an Army 13F: Fire Support Specialist aka Forward Observer aka Cannon Fodder


Edit: Remind me not to fsck with warcleric.

 

[Amused]

<< Cannon Fodder >>



LMAO!!!

 

[Brutuskend]

Mine was 6023
IMA maint. on T76 turbo prop's

(OV10a Bronco's)

 

[Locutus of Board]

MP

 

[warcleric]

Bober: 13F is pretty ballsy too my man. I always wanted to be 19D except for the lack of promotions.

 

[Amused]

Oh you all suck. I got to play Nintendo for a living

 

[BoberFett]

warcleric and AmusedOne

I feel very lucky to have never seen combat as a 13F. I heard that the average life expetancy for a 13F was measured in seconds. :Q

 

[Amused]

<< warcleric and AmusedOne

I feel very lucky to have never seen combat as a 13F. I heard that the average life expetancy for a 13F was measured in seconds. :Q >>



That's OK. All we had was a glorified armored personnel carrier, and we were supposed to go up against battle tanks with that POS

Our life expectancy would have been a few hours, only because it took that long to get to the front :Q

 

[Aceman]

<< I used to be an Army 13F: Fire Support Specialist aka Forward Observer aka Cannon Fodder >>



I use to be in the battery that lobbed those rounds downrange for Boberfett's section to spot.

Currently: 75H Senior Personnel Service Supervisor

Others I've held and worked in (Ranked by time in the job):

92Y Supply
71D Paralegal
71L (F5 identifier) Admin Specialist with Postal Training
13B Cannon Cocker
12B Combat Engineer
11C Mortarman

 

[BoberFett]

Maybe that was you that fired that short round during one of my training exercises...

 

[RossGr]

MOS is an army term, In the Navy we had rating, I was an ETR3, That reads Electronic Technician Radar, 3rd class Petty officer (e-4)

 

[Emos]

Here's a rather unknown one: 57F...Graves Registration Specialist! My primary job in wartime would be to give positive IDs to the unknown casualties...rather grim work. I'm VERY glad I never had to put my training into practice!

 

[Cyberian]

91P-20 X-Ray Technician / This may have changed. I was in during Nam.
SP5 -(E5)

 

[jemcam]

Started off as a 71L administrative specialist. When I got to my unit, I changed MOS's to 13E, Field Artillery Fire Direction Specialist. Later went to OCS and became a Field Artillery Officer. Hoooaahhhh!

 

[tm37]

<< MOS is an army term, In the Navy we had rating, I was an ETR3, That reads Electronic Technician Radar, 3rd class Petty officer (e-4) >>



Now It would bejust plain old ET3

I was AE3 Aviation Electricians Mate AKA Aviation Everthing no one else can figure out!{E4}

 

[Brutuskend]

Thats wierd. I was USMC and WE called it a MOS. Since the marines are a part on the navy (so to speak) I find it strange you guys didn't call it a MOS as well.

 

[etech]

Navy, FTG

Fire Control Technician, Guns - E5 when I got out.

I remember having to tell my mother that I was not going to be putting fires out. I did end up on a helo crash response team for awhile though.

 

[etech]

err whoops

 

[Rastus]

32171G -- Defensive Fire Control Systems Technician -- B52D

US Air Force Here.

 

[AndrewR]

In USAF, it's AFSC (Air Force Specialty Code). Non-rated right now, but will be 14N in about 9 months (Intelligence Officer). They used to have 14N0 and 14N1 (Collections and Analyst, or the other way around), but they're training both with the same course now -- not sure how the jobs are classified, however.

 

[glenn1]

Primary was 98G3S (Arabic linguist), secondary 18E3X (ranger-coded Special Forces communications sergeant... don't ask me why they coded it X rather than S which was the SF Identifier).

 

[Khameleon]

29V/31P here. The Signal Corps reworked a bunch of the MOS's back in '93, so mine changed then from 29V to 31P. Microwave Systems Technician, I spent a year at Ft. Gordon, 2 years 1st Signal in Korea, and 2 years 35th Signal at Ft. Bragg.