MEMORANDUM
Date: 23 Apr 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 March 2007
b.
Total Number of Marines that attended:
945
c.
Active Duty Separations: 944
d.
Retirees: 1
e.
Officers: 30
f.
Enlisted: 915
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 Series Number MOS Series Number
0100 64 3100 7
0200 4 3300 2
0300 241 3400 4
0400 22 3500 91
0500 6 4400 1
0600 67 5500 2
0800 33 5700 6
1100 15 5800 9
1300 77 6000 3
1800 14 6100 4
2100 12 6300 2
2300 33 6400 1
2600 5 7000 2
2800 66 7500 3
3000 55 8400 14
8500 3
MOS Descriptions
0100 Occupational Field (Administration): 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 (Intelligence Analyst): 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 Combat): 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):
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.
0500 Occupational Field (Planning Specialist): The enlisted Marine Air Ground Task Force
(MAGTF) planning specialist is responsible for functional support in the areas
of fielding, deploying, Planning and operational execution.. Typical duties
include updating plan and unit information to unit level detail for force
deployment planning, operating and managing force deployment planning automated
data processing tools, producing force reports, and properly formatting and
forwarding electronic mail, files, and newsgroup message traffic.
0600 Occupational Field (Command & Control Systems): 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 (Field Artillery): 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 (Utilities):
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 (Engineering):
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.
1800 Occupational Field (Tanks and Amphibian Assault Vehicles): The tank and assault amphibian vehicle OccFld
includes operation, employment, maneuver, and maintenance of tracked vehicles
in the combined arms environment during both amphibious assaults and subsequent
land operations ashore. Qualifications
required include basic mechanical aptitude and the ability to perform
harmoniously with others in the confined area inside combat vehicles. The duties involved are incident to the
operation, employment, maneuver, and maintenance of tanks and assault
amphibious vehicles. Formal schooling
is provided to Marines at both the entry level and at the appropriate time in
career development. Marines entering
this OccFld receive MOS 1800, Basic Tank and Assault Amphibious Vehicle
Crewman. After entry into OccFld 18 and assignment of a basic 1800 MOS,
personnel specialize in either the M1A1 tank or the assault amphibious vehicle
.
2100 Occupational Field (Ordnance/Armorer): 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 (Explosive Ordnance Disposal): 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 (Signals Intelligence/Ground Electronic Warf): 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.
2700 Occupational Field (Linguist):
The linguist OccFld contains skill designator MOSs broken down to
identify specific foreign language skills. Qualifications require that Marines
obtain and maintain a minimum Defense Language Proficiency Test (DLPT) skill
proficiency level of 2 in at least two out of the three tested areas
(listening, reading, and speaking). The DLPT is the current Department of
Defense standard to determine foreign language proficiency and maintain quality
control . Duties may involve direct supervision and participation in language
translation/interpretation activities in support of the full range of military
operational and intelligence matters encountered during contingencies,
operations, and exercises
2800 Occupational Field (Data/Communications Maintenance): 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 (Supply Administration): 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 (Traffic Management): 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,
3300 Occupational Field (Food Services):
The food service OccFld includes the acquisition of food, supplies, and
equipment; menu and recipe planning; meal preparation and serving; sanitation;
operation and management of facilities and personnel; training; and accounting
and reporting functions.
Qualifications required include basic skills in math and reading, ability to follow recipes, and the ability to work closely with others. The duties involve technical, administrative, and managerial skills. Food service personnel will be required to learn garrison and field food preparation and serving procedures, recipe conversion, preparation and use of food service administrative forms, sanitation surveillance procedures for food processing and storage facilities, and methods of cooking food and preparing desserts and beverages by using recipes/formulas.
3400 Occupational Field (Financial Management): 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 (Motor Transport): 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.
4300 Occupational Field (Public Affairs): The public affairs OccFld includes the
gathering, preparing, and disseminating of news and feature materials, to both
internal and external audiences, about the Marine Corps' plans, policies,
programs, regulations, changes, and operations and exercises.
4400 Occupational Field (Legal Services):
The legal service OccFld consists of MOS 4421, Legal Services
Specialist/Scopist and MOS 4429, Legal Services Reporter (Stenotype). Personnel
in these MOSs provide services required in the operational, managerial, legal
administrative, typing, clerical, and courts-martial reporting/transcribing
areas necessary for the proper functioning of a legal services support section
(LSSS), law center, or office of the staff judge advocate. Marines entering the
OccFld receive MOS 4400, Basic Legal Services Marine. Formal schooling is
provided to all Marines entering the OccFld.
5500 Occupational Field (Music): Marines
in the music OccFld provide music to support military ceremonies, official
functions, community relations, personnel procurement programs, and troop
"esprit de corps."
5700 Occupational Field (Nuclear, Biological, Chemical Defense): 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.
5800 Occupational Field (Military Police and Corrections): The military police and corrections OccFld
provides the commander continuous support by enforcing the law. They are
responsible for preventing and suppressing crime; assessing command physical
security posture; preserving military control; quelling disturbances;
investigating offenses; apprehending offenders and protecting property and
personnel. They are also are
responsible for providing flightline security; registering and controlling
privately owned vehicles and weapons; investigating traffic accidents;
controlling traffic; antiterrorism; handling and safeguarding prisoners of war,
refugees, or evacuees. Also, conducting
small unit offensive and defensive combat operations; guarding military
prisoners and absentees/deserters returned to military control; and supervising
brig operations and correctional custody units.
6000/6100/6200 Occupational Fields (Aircraft Mechanics): The aircraft maintenance OccFlds includes
direct and direct support of the total airframes and power plant package of all
aviation aircraft weapons systems. Marines entering these fields receive MOS
6000, Basic Aircraft Maintenance Marine, and then progress through specific
hard skill MOSs. After completion of formal training, Marines are qualified to
maintain airframes and aircraft component. The opportunity to participate in a
formal apprenticeship program leading to receipt of a Department of Labor
Certification of Apprenticeship Completion may be available in some MOSs within
OccFlds 60/61/62; refer to MCO 1550.22 for specific information concerning this
program. As the Marine progresses, repair and administrative requirements for
multiple systems take on an equal importance until the Marine is placed in a
management/supervisory position.
6300/6400 Occupational Fields (Aviation Electronics): The avionics OccFld includes direct and
indirect support of all aviation weapon systems. While there is a large
similarity in the skills required to provide this support, the systems being
supported are diverse. The following
examples are provided: direct support repair accomplished at the organizational
maintenance activity (OMA) which is normally accomplished "on
aircraft"; e.g., replacement of the radar antenna on the aircraft;
indirect support-repair accomplished at the intermediate maintenance activity
(IMA) which is normally accomplished "off aircraft"; e.g., radar
system module repair, repair/calibration of the radar support equipment. Marines entering the OccFld receive MOS
6300, Basic Avionics Marine, then progress through specific hard skill MOSs and
ultimately are assigned MOS 6391, avionics maintenance chief, or MOS 6491,
avionics precision measuring equipment (PME) chief, for MOSs 6492/93/94.
7000 Occupational Field (Airfield Services): The airfield services OccFld includes the
performance of aviation operations duties, aircraft rescue fire fighting, and
expeditionary airfield (EAF) equipment recovery duties. In addition to the required basic technical
skills of the particular specialty, airfield services Marines must have the
ability to work closely with others.
Airfield services Marines will be required to learn all facets of EAF
equipment, clerical and administrative procedures pertinent to airfield
operations or aircraft firefighting, and rescue techniques and equipment. Formal schooling is provided to Marines
entering the OccFld. Entry level jobs
include work as an aircraft recovery specialist, aviation operations specialist
or aircraft firefighting and rescue specialist.
7560 Military Occupational Specialty (Pilot): 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 Corpsman/field nurse): 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 Instructor): 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.