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Infantry score of 100 or higher. MOS 11B, skill level 1 and 2 and 11C or 11H at skill level 1, 2, or 3. Grade E-5 or below. (Grade E-5 must have prior approval from USCONARC.) Demonstrated leadership potential. Selected by unit commander. Have 13 or more months remaining in service after completion of course.
For example, CMF 11 covers infantry, so MOS 11B is "rifle infantryman". Among the letters, Z is reserved for "senior sergeant" (E-8), such that 11Z is "senior infantry sergeant". The fourth character of the MOSC represents skill level (commensurate with rank and grade):
Related MOSs are grouped together by Career Management Fields (CMF). For example, an enlisted soldier with MOSC 11B works as an infantryman (his MOS), and is part of CMF 11 (the CMF for infantry). Commissioned officers are classified by their area of concentration, or AOC. Just like enlisted MOSCs, AOCs are two digits plus a letter.
One Station Unit Training, sometimes referred to as One Site Unit Training, is a term used by the United States Army to refer to a training program in which recruits remain with the same unit for both Basic Combat Training (BCT) and Advanced Individual Training (AIT).
Based loosely on the Officer Candidate School (OCS), NCOC was a new concept (at the time) where high performing trainees attending basic infantry combat training were nominated to attend a two-phased course of focused instruction on jungle warfare, and included a hands-on portion of intense training, promotion to sergeant, and then a 12-week ...
1 August 1920 8 November 1923 4 Brigadier General Briant H. Wells: 9 November 1923 8 March 1926 5 Brigadier General Edgar T. Collins: 9 March 1926 1 May 1929 6 Brigadier General Campbell King: 2 May 1929 31 May 1933 7 Brigadier General George H. Estes: 1 June 1933 30 September 1936 8 Brigadier General Asa L. Singleton: 1 October 1936 31 August ...
The Expert Infantryman Badge (EIB) is a special skills badge of the United States Army. The EIB was created with the CIB by executive order in November 1943 during World War II . Currently, it is awarded to U.S. Army personnel who hold infantry or special forces military occupational specialties with the exception of soldiers with the ...
In 1973, the United States Army was in turmoil as a result of the Vietnam War drawing to an end. [1] Some of the contributing factors to the perceived degradation of the NCO Corps was the end of the draft "Modern Volunteer Army", Secretary of Defense Robert MacNamara's "Project 100,000" and the Noncommissioned officer candidate course.