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The United States Marine Corps Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) is a system of categorizing career fields.All enlisted and officer Marines are assigned a four-digit code denoting their primary occupational field and specialty.
Pages in category "United States Marine Corps in the Vietnam War" The following 108 pages are in this category, out of 108 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Pages in category "United States Marine Corps personnel of the Vietnam War" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 404 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. (previous page)
The MOS system now had five digits, with a period after the third digit. The first four-digit code number indicated the soldier's job; the first two digits were the field code, the third digit was the sub-specialty and the fourth code number (separated by a period) was the job title.
Commissioned on 8 September 1953 as Marine Air Traffic Control Unit 14 (MATCU-14), Marine Aircraft Group 14 at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, North Carolina. The unit was re-designated as Marine Air Traffic Control Unit 61 on 1 October 1953. MATCU-61 remained at MCAS Cherry Point supporting operations Europe, the Caribbean and in CONUS.
Marine Observation Group 1 15 May 1945 [21] 7 January 1946 [21] Administrative control of VMO squadrons during WWII. Deactivated at Sasebo, Japan. [21] Marine Combat Crew Readiness Training Group 10: 1 January 1969 31 March 1988 [22] Provided specialized tactical and technical training for fixed wing pilots and aircrew. Marine Aircraft Group 15 ...
This is a list of all of the active squadrons that exist in the United States Marine Corps, sorted by type. Most squadrons have changed names and designations many times over the years, so they are listed by their current designation. To see Marine Aviation units sorted by command hierarchy, see aviation combat element.
On 28 July 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson announced that the U.S. would increase the number of its forces in South Vietnam from 75,000 to 125,000. The arrival of additional USMC and United States Air Force squadrons at Da Nang AB led to severe overcrowding at the base and the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing (I MAW) began looking for an alternative site for the helicopter squadrons of MAG-16.