MEMORANDUM
Date: 31 January 2007
From: AC/S Training & Operations
To: Commanding Officer, MCB
Subj: QUARTERLY ACTIVE DUTY
SEPARATIONS/RETIREES REPORT
Encl: (1) MOS Breakdown/Descriptions
1. The following data is provided
regarding the number of Marines (Officer/Enlisted) who attended the Base’s
Transition Assistance Program as they prepare to separate from the Marine Corps
within the next year. Included in this
report are the MOS breakdowns/MOS descriptions of those separating (enclosure
(1)):
a. Period covered: 1-31 January 2007
b.
Total Number of Marines that attended:
576
c.
Active Duty Separations: 548
d.
Retirees: 28
e.
Officers: 14
f.
Enlisted: 562
2. Questions or comments can be directed
to Mr. Joe Ramirez at 451-5747.
T.
B. Bailey III
MOS Breakdowns/MOS
Descriptions
MOS Breakdowns
MOS Number MOS Number
0121 3 2847 2
0151 1 3043 1
0161 1 3051 4
0231 1 3112 1
0311 19 3432 4
0321 2 3521 6
0331 2 3531 11
0341 1 3533 3
0351 4 3534 1
0352 1 5711 1
0402 2 7560 1
0431 1 8404 9
0451 2 8551 1
0481 8 9999 1
0612 2
0614 1
0621 8
0622 2
0656 1
0811 7
0844 2
1142 4
1161 1
1171 1
1316 2
1341 7
1345 2
1371 10
2100 1
2141 3
2146 1
2171 1
2311 4
2621 1
2651 1
2674 1
2676 2
2846 1
MOS Descriptions
0100 Occupational Field: The
duties involve administrative, managerial, and technical skills. Personnel and
administration Marines are required to learn clerical and administrative
procedures, office management, personal computer skills (personnel and pay
database retrieval and word processing), preparation and use of military
publications and correspondence, preparation of orders and directives, and the
use of filing systems and record-keeping.
0200 Occupational Field: The
Intelligence OccFld conducts the collection, processing, and dissemination of
intelligence. The specialties within the Intelligence OccFld are analysis,
counterintelligence, imagery interpretation, interrogation-translation, and
geographic intelligence. Basic qualification requirements include clerical,
communication, and computer skills. Intelligence specialists are required to
learn and master a variety of analytical and technical skills.
0300 Occupational Field: Infantry
Marines are trained in core competencies of gunnery on infantry weapons, combat
operations, and battlefield awareness; employing a variety of weapons, and
through communications links, supporting arms including artillery, naval
gunfire, and close air support; sea-based, projecting onto vital littorals in
any climate or place. They are capable
of the full spectrum of combat, day or night, against opposing forces with a
full spectrum of capabilities, including NBC; using maneuver warfare to locate,
close with, and destroy the enemy by fire and maneuver; either on foot or
mounted on trucks, assault vehicles, assault craft, or vertical assault
aircraft.
0400 Occupational Field:
Logistics is the science of planning and carrying out the movement and
maintenance of forces. It includes the
design, development, acquisition, storage, movement, distribution, maintenance,
evacuation, and disposition of material.
Logistics also includes the movement, evacuation, and hospitalization of
personnel. Additionally included is the
acquisition or construction, maintenance, operation, and disposition of
facilities; and, the acquisition or furnishings of services.
0600 Occupational Field: Marines
in this field operate and perform preventive maintenance on both hardware and
software systems; including telephone, teletype, switching, radio,
cryptographic, and computer systems, which are essential links in the overall
functions of command and control. They must have basic to advanced manual and
language skills and must be able to master precise communication and computer
procedures, as well as interact on a daily basis with users to solve command
and control systems challenges. Attention to detail and the ability to work closely
with others are essential requirements.
0800 Occupational Field: The
field artillery OccFld is divided among three functional areas: firing battery,
field artillery operations, and field artillery observation/liaison.
Qualifications include ability and learned skills to operate and maintain
artillery equipment; basic technical and mathematical skills for computing,
communicating, and executing fire commands; ability and attitudes supporting
life and close work with others in a field environment; and performing duties
involving hard technical skills as well as administrative and managerial
skills. The duties which must be learned vary by functional area. Firing battery includes moving, emplacing,
loading, firing, protecting, and maintaining field artillery cannon weapons
systems. Field artillery operations involve moving, emplacing, operating,
protecting, and maintaining equipment which acquires targets; provides,
relates, and evaluates gun and target survey information, meteorological data,
weapon system performance; and integrating these factors into orders and
communicating these orders to the firing battery. Field artillery observation
and liaison include checking and analyzing combat plans and communicating
appropriate advice, planning and operating information to coordinate the fires
of field artillery and naval guns with infantry and armor combat maneuvers;
observing and reporting targets and other battlefield information; and
adjusting observed fires on targets.
1100 Occupational Field: The
utilities OccFld includes Marines who install, operate, and maintain water
supply, plumbing, heating, sewage, mobile electrical power generating sources,
electrical distribution systems, air conditioning, refrigeration, hygiene
utilities systems, and perform fabric repair.
1300 Occupational Field: The
engineer, construction, and equipment OccFld comprises Marines whose duties
include metalworking and welding; repair, maintenance, and operation of
engineer heavy equipment such as cranes and bulldozers; construction and repair
of military structures and facilities; clearing and emplacing obstacles such as
minefields; construction of standard and nonstandard bridging; and emplacing
and detonating explosives for construction and demolition projects.
2100 Occupational Field: The
ordnance OccFld assures the MARFOR that serviceable ordnance materials are
available. Duties include the inspection, repair, and maintenance of most
weapon systems possessed by Marine Corps units. Qualifications required include
basic ordnance administration and knowledge; the capability to technically
inspect/ analyze an ordnance item and repair/fabricate the same; and to
understand and implement repair shop/armory operational procedures.
2300 Occupational Field: The
ammunition technician handles, transports, and stores all type of ammunition,
explosives, missiles, inspects materiel to determine serviceability and need
for repair or destruction; the explosive ordnance disposal technician provides
the commander with the capability to neutralize hazards associated with
conventional explosive ordnance, weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and
improvised explosive devices (IED); and conducts ordnance technical
intelligence and dynamic explosive entry.
2600 Occupational Field: Marines
in this field conduct collection, analysis, production, and dissemination of
collected data. In addition, the Marines manage communication equipment and
facilities. Marines entering the SIGINT/EW field will be required to set up and
operate communications and/or electronic equipment, prepare reports, conduct
preventive maintenance on assigned equipment, and assist in the operations
control and management of SIGINT/EW equipment/facilities.
2800 Occupational Field: The
equipment and systems include various types of communications hardware, data
terminals, cryptographic devices, ground radar, and a wide range of test
equipment and calibration devices. Qualifications to work in this field include
manual dexterity, normal color vision, the ability to understand involved
technical material, and to comprehend somewhat complex mathematical and logic
principles. Types of entry-level jobs available include work as a telephone
technician, PC/tactical office machine repairer, ground radio repairer, TMDE
technician, and ground radar repairer. Formal schooling is provided to all
Marines entering this field.
3000 Occupational Field: The
supply administration and operations OccFld includes personnel in the areas of
ground supply administration and operations, warehousing, preservation and
packaging, hazardous materials storage operations handling, fiscal accounting
and purchasing, and contracting procedures per the Federal Acquisition
Regulations. Qualifications required include personal computer operations.
Duties involve administrative and government specific procedures and the use of
material handling equipment in the movement and storage of supplies and
equipment.
3100 Occupational Field: The
traffic management OccFld includes the procurement/acquisition of DoD or commercial
transportation resources for the movement of personnel, equipment, supplies and
personal property via air, bus, rail, truck, and water. Qualifications include
familiarity with transport equipment and related limitations, commercial and
DoD transportation system, transportation procurement procedures and
preparation of procurement and tracking documents. This includes a
comprehensive understanding of commercial carriers tariffs,
3400 Occupational Field: The
Financial Management OccFld encompasses the functions of auditing, finance, and
fiscal/budget which are developed to ensure the continuing quality of the
financial management process and to safeguard public funds, both appropriated
and non-appropriated. Personnel serving
in the OccFld assist and support the commander in the execution of the
responsibilities, both command and legal, that relate to financial
administration. Qualifications required
include skills involving the disbursement of public funds, budget development
and execution, managerial accounting, reporting, resource evaluation and
analysis, and auditing. Formal schooling is provided to Marines entering the
OccFld as Finance and Fiscal/Budget Technicians. Types of entry level jobs
available include work in finance, managerial accounting, and comptroller
offices in the operating forces and the post and station activities. They perform routine duties incident to the
preparation of financial records, travel vouchers, processing of public
vouchers for payment and the maintenance of internal controls.
3500 Occupational Field: The
motor transport OccFld includes the operations and maintenance functions within
the tactical and commercial motor vehicle services. Qualifications required
include driving and maintenance skills of automotive vehicles and the ability
to work closely with others. The duties require hard technical skills
supplemented by administrative and managerial skills. Motor transport Marines will be required to
learn vehicle operator and maintenance procedures, personnel and operations
management techniques, preparation of orders and directives, and record keeping
procedures. Formal schooling and
standardized training is provided to Marines entering the OccFld. Types of
entry level jobs available include work as a light or heavy vehicle operator
and organizational or intermediate maintenance mechanic.
5700 Occupational Field: The NBC
defense field includes the detection, identification, warning, reporting, and
decontamination procedures associated with nuclear, biological, and chemical
contamination on the battlefield. NBC
defense specialists must be familiar with warehousing, supply, calibration,
maintenance, serviceability, and accountability procedures for all NBC defense
equipment down to the battalion/squadron level. Qualifications required include emotional
stability, no hypersensitivity to protective clothing or immunizations,
a background which does not preclude qualification for a secret security
clearance, and no respiratory problems that could prevent a
masked individual from performing his/her assigned tasks. Duties involve
administrative, logistical, and technical operational skills. NBC defense specialists will be required to
learn safety procedures in handling NBC materials; physiological symptoms and
effects associated with exposure to chemical and biological (CB) chemical
warfare agents and nuclear radiation; the administration of first aid to
personnel exposed to CB warfare agents and nuclear radiation; proper storage
and maintenance for NBC materials and equipment; and the operation of NBC
defense equipment.
7560 Military Occupational Specialty:
Pilots a rotary wing aircraft on observation, transport, rescue,
utility, and fire suppression missions. Performs missions, such as observation,
message pickup, transportation of troops and equipment, laying wire, hoisting,
rescue, and fire suppression. Operates
aircraft from land or sea with helicopter facilities. Operates aircraft from small fields in close
coordination with ground troops. The pilot also performs spotting for naval
gunfire and field artillery. Commands
or may assist in commanding an aviation unit.
8404 Military Occupational Specialty:
Hospital Corpsmen perform duties as assistants in the prevention and
treatment of disease and injury and assist health care professionals in
providing medical care to Navy/Marine Corps
people and their families. They may function as clinical or specialty
technicians, medical administrative personnel and health care providers at
medical treatment facilities. They also serve as battlefield corpsmen with the
Marine Corps, rendering emergency medical treatment to include initial
treatment in a combat environment.
Qualified hospital corpsmen may be assigned the responsibility of
independent duty aboard ships and submarines; Fleet Marine Force, Special
Forces and Seabee units, and at isolated duty stations where no medical officer
is available.
8551 Military Occupational Specialty:
Close combat instructors conduct training in Principles of Close Combat.
Duties:
Trains personnel in Military Basic Skill Training for Close Combat, Assists close combat instructor-trainers in
certifying or recertifying close combat instructors.
9999 Military Occupational Specialty:
Assists the commander as senior enlisted Marine in the unit. Acts as principal enlisted assistant to the
commander. Keeps apprised of all policies of the commander. Disseminates information to the unit's
enlisted personnel regarding such policies. Reports to the commander on the status of
matters pertaining to the efficient operation of the command. Counsels subordinate unit noncommissioned
officers as required to improve the general effectiveness of the command.
Interviews and counsels enlisted personnel on pertinent professional and
personal matters which may affect the efficiency of the command. Assists the
commander in the conduct of office hours, requests mast, and meritorious mast.
participates in ceremonies, briefings, confer commander. Assists in supervision
of clerical and administrative matters; training functions and the employment
of the command in garrison and in the field; logistic functions such as
billeting, transportation, and messing; inspections and investigations;
personnel management; and daily routine. Assumes other duties designated by the
commander.