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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 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)
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 .
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.
Marine Utility Squadron 253 "VMJ-253" was commissioned on 11 March 1942 in San Diego, California. [1] The squadron's first cadre of pilots were airline pilots that were also in the Marine Corps Reserve. [2] Soon after commissioning the squadron joined the joint air transport organization dubbed the South Pacific Combat Air Transport Command (SCAT).
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 Aviators deployed to the Middle East for Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm, then to Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan and Operation Iraqi Freedom. 2006 saw Marine Aviation at its highest operational level since the Vietnam War, flying more than 120,000 combat hours in support of operations in and near Afghanistan and Iraq.
William A. Sayers writing in 2019 asserted that North Vietnam only had three aces in the war including Phạm Thanh Ngân, with the other "aces" being creations of North Vietnamese propaganda that included claimed "kills" on days where no U.S. losses occurred, crediting VPAF pilots with kills that had actually been achieved by surface to air ...