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Enlisted soldiers are categorized by their assigned job called a Military Occupational Specialty (MOS). MOS are labeled with a short alphanumerical code called a military occupational core specialty code (MOSC), which consists of a two-digit number appended by a Latin letter. Related MOSs are grouped together by Career Management Fields (CMF).
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.
After the Air Force separated from the Army in 1947, it retained the Army's system of MOS occupation codes, modifying them in 1954. These were 5-digit codes; for example a maintenance data systems specialist was 39150 and a weather technician was 25170.
Restricted officers (limited duty officers and warrant officers) cannot hold non-primary MOSs and will be limited to Primary MOS (PMOS) – Basic MOS (BMOS) matches. Colonels are considered fully qualified Marine Air Ground Task Force (MAGTF) Officers and, with the exception of lawyers and MOSs 8059/61 Acquisition Management Professionals, will ...
30 September 1994 MATCS-28: Intrepid Sentinels: 23 April 1976 22 July 1994 MATCS-38: 27 April 1976 [70] 30 September 1994 MATCS-48: 1 June 1980 30 September 1994 Det A decommissioned on 6 June 1992, [71] Det B became MACS-24 Det A, Det C became MACS-24 Det B
[29] [30] In 2017, the U.S. Army adopted multidomain operations as its operational concept for future transformation. [31] [32] [33] The limited scope of counter-insurgency and CIED operations allowed EOD leaders to focus on specific tasks. The challenge for EOD leaders now is to prepare forces for missions across domains and the competition ...
A U.S. soldier uses a VS-17 panel to signal an approaching helicopter during an exercise, 2015. The VS-17 is a signaling device used by military personnel to send signals to aircraft, [1] [2] and to mark improvised landing sites. [3] VS-17 panels (lower left corner) are used to mark a unimproved landing site for a C-130J Hercules, 2022
In May 2022, Army leadership announced US Army Alaska will be reflagged to 11th Airborne Division. [38] Subsequently, in June 2022 the two 25th ID patch wearing units, 1st and 4th BCTs, which were under operational control of USARAK, reflagged to 1st and 2nd Brigade Combat Teams, 11th Abn Division, respectively.