What You Would Do: As a military police and corrections specialist, you would support commanders in keeping law and order. You would enforce military laws, prevent crimes, investigate offenses, and apprehend any offenders.
What You Would Do: Your job would involve the maintenance, repair, and operation of different types of electronic equipment that supports air defense, surveillance, weapons systems, radio communication, and air traffic control. What You Would Do: This field is divided into three areas: 60 primary, 61 helicopters, and 62 fixed-wing aircraft.
You would provide support to the total airframe, power plant, and aircraft weapons systems. What You Would Do: You will provide support to aviation weapons systems.
What You Would Do: Your duties will include the maintenance of guns, gun pods, bomb racks, aircraft weapons systems, missile launchers, and related support equipment. What You Would Do: Your duties will include a wide range of network infrastructures like aviation supply and aviation information systems maintenance. What You Would Do: You will be responsible for collecting, assessing, and distributing information applicable to friendly and enemy force strengths and weaknesses, including data on climate and atmosphere.
What You Would Do: Your duties will include aircraft equipment recovery and rescue and firefighting. What You Would Do: Your job includes the operation and management of Marine aircraft wing air command and functions. You may get to be an air control electronics operator or an air traffic controller.
What You Would Do: Your job will be related to the operations and maintenance of aircraft and helicopters. Jobs available include helicopter specialist and unmanned aircraft system operator. What You Would Do: Your choice of jobs in this field includes recruiter, security guard, and parachutist. The Marine officer MOS is similar to the enlisted MOS and are grouped into different occupational fields the first two digits and then by a specific job in that field the last two digits.
What You Would Do: You will be trained in one of the following intel disciplines: ground, human source, signals, or air intelligence. What You Would Do : Your job is critical in planning strategies for units at all levels.
You would coordinate the movement of troops and equipment from ship to shore and on to forward operating bases. Your job is to oversee the planning, installation, operation, and maintenance of telecommunications and computer systems. You will have to quickly establish communications capabilities on the battlefield. What You Would Do : You will be responsible for leading Marines in tactics, gunnery, and gun-line drills.
You will provide close-fire support for infantry, armored reconnaissance, and tank units. What You Would Do : Your job will be to lead Marines in demolition, mine and countermine warfare, obstacle placement, breaching, and construction.
You will work in one of four categories of engineering: mobility, counter mobility, survivability, and general engineering. You will command Marines in M1A1 tanks. As an Amphibious Assault Vehicle Officer, you will command assault amphibian units and direct AA units on maneuvers, tactical problems, and in combat.
You will supervise the buying and contracting of supplies, manage budgets and develop spending plans. What You Would Do : You will be in charge of all financial issues. These issues include managing budgets and disbursing actions. Your job will be to coordinate military pay and travel, budgeting, accounting, and directing internal reviews. You will answer questions and inform the media of Marine Corps stories and events.
The Marine Corps is one of the most elite fighting forces in the world. The Marines are a part of the Department of the Navy and operate in close cooperation with U. The Marines' mission is unique among the services. Marines serve on U. Navy ships, protect naval bases, guard U. To perform the many duties of the Marine Corps, approximately , officers and enlisted Marines fly planes and helicopters; operate radar equipment; drive armored vehicles; gather intelligence; survey and map territory; maintain and repair radios, computers, jeeps, trucks, tanks and aircraft; and perform hundreds of other challenging jobs.
The Marine Corps is the nation's force. Thousands of Marines are deployed aboard naval amphibious ships ready to respond to an international crisis. This ability to mobilize quickly has allowed the Marines to become the United States' ready-reaction force. The Army is a much larger force and is used in larger and longer conflicts. At times, the Army will relieve the Marines after a period of time, much like what happened in Somalia.
The Marines also consider themselves to be a self-sustaining force, bringing with it to battle its own airpower, artillery and logistics support. Of course, Marines have to travel on Navy vessels in order to get to its destination. Marines also are proud to say that "every Marine is a rifleman. It is fair to say that this mentality does not exist in all of the Army's support units.
It consists of 10 short individual tests covering word knowledge, paragraph comprehension, arithmetic reasoning, mathematics knowledge, general science, auto and shop information, mechanical comprehension, electronics information, numerical operations and coding speed.
When you take the ASVAB before enlisting, not only do you receive scores on each of these individual tests, but several individual test results are combined to yield three academic composite scores: verbal, math and academic ability. You will be able to work in one of 35 career fields that offer more than different jobs. It will depend on your term of commitment or specialty. Ask your recruiter for details. Only U. Applicants must speak, write and read English fluently.
The U. Regulations prohibit the forwarding of recruiting information through international mail, even to U. Use our online form to reach a recruiter electronically. Boot camp is 13 weeks, followed by three weeks of either the School of the Infantry or Marine Combat Training. All women will attend recruit training at Parris Island.
Recruit training is rigorous, demanding and challenging. The overall goal of recruit training is to instill in the recruits the military skills, knowledge, discipline, pride and self-confidence necessary to be a Marine.
In the first several days at the recruit depot, a recruit is assigned to a platoon, receives a basic issue of uniforms and equipment, is given an additional physical and takes further assignment classification tests.
Each platoon is led by a team of three Marine drill instructors. A typical training day for recruits begins with reveille at 5 a. Ask your recruiter whether you can get a copy of "Recruit Regulations. We cannot stress enough how important it is for you to prepare yourself for running and physical fitness training.
It is recommended that you enter recruit training with the ability to run three miles in less than 24 minutes. For tips on how to get yourself into shape for Boot Camp, see military fitness guru Stew Smith's articles. There are a number of ways you can become an officer in the Marine Corps. In almost all cases, you will need a bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university. TBS is six months and will cover leadership, land navigation, weapons qualifications, small unit tactics and communications.
A portion of Naval Academy graduates go into the Marine Corps. Plan on being deployed to remote areas of the world for unspecified amounts of time! First, the basic requirements to get your foot in the door. If your screening goes well you will then be subject to a very extensive polygraph lie detector test.
The second set of requirements is that you are constantly studying and learning about various organizations, people of interest, threats and various other facets of your position. This position requires a lot of hands-on personal communication with contacts that you must attain a viable and professional relationship with. As new threats emerge such as organized terrorist groups, you must adapt and conform to new information quickly to remain relevant to the operation.
A lot of your time is going to include studying, learning, and memorizing new information that generally tends to change rapidly. Job outlook a fter the military: As the skills you learn and the experiences you endure during your time as a will vary greatly, the likelihood of you becoming at least bilingual is very high.
During your training, you will likely choose or be tasked to become fluent in another language and as such, your fluency in another language alone may be enough to land you a job across many different sectors of industry. A good example of a job you could take is an interpreter. A very popular avenue after the Marine Corps for an is to move on into an analyst role for the federal government.
There are many avenues you could choose to take after leaving the Marine Corps but so long as you maintain your security clearances, you could earn far above the median wage for an American with many retired Marines operating in the private or even federal sectors earning six-figure incomes.
Oct 5, Parachute Rigger Marines What they do: Looking for a guaranteed way to jump out of aircraft and get your jump wings? Parachute riggers get to do just that. This is easily one of the coolest jobs in the Marine Corps, but it is often overlooked because people just assume they only repack parachutes all day every day. In reality, parachute riggers have an extremely important job and some of the most highly trained Marines trust them with their lives.
Parachute riggers are air delivery specialists that are trained to perform parachute drop operations of both gear and personnel.
Essentially, they are in charge of all the safety equipment involved in airborne and airdrop operations. They often serve as supervisors and help pick which drop and landing zones would be best.
Parachute riggers support the preparation and execution of airborne operations and their job is far from lackluster. How to become one: To become a parachute rigger you must have a GT score of or higher. There are some also unique qualifications a Marine must go through before they can call themselves a parachute rigger.
They first have to pass the U. One key component of this Army Physical Fitness Test that many Marines are not used to is the timed pushups portion. After passing this test Marines must also prove they are strong swimmers by undergoing multiple swim qualifications that include crossing deep water for 40 meters while carrying all their gear and a weapon.
They will then have to simulate an abandon ship technique by undergoing multiple exercises that involve jumping into deep water from various heights carrying full gear and their weapon. They must also a buddy rescue swim using the collar tow for 25 meters with a simulated passive victim along with two packs and weapons secured to them. Army Infantry School in Ft. Benning, Georgia.
This is a three-week course where Marines undergo the Army fitness test and get basic instruction on jumping on static line jumping from fixed-wing aircraft. The last step to becoming a parachute rigger is to attend the Parachute Riggers Course in Ft. Lee, Virginia. Aside from that you may find employment in air based logistics where you would be load planning and conducting general air cargo management.
What they do: As you might have guessed, Marines in the artillery field generally use explosive ordnance to suppress, support or eliminate enemy targets. Some Marines within the artillery field may be tasked with reporting weather and environmental information to fireteams or leadership, while others may be tasked with spotting and locating the position of enemy artillery fire or aiding in the positioning, movement and strategy to avoid enemy artillery of troops in the field.
How to become one: There are a number of MOSes within the artillery field including field artillery cannoneer, High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems, artillery radar operators, artillery fire control, and artillery meteorology, and more. As there are so many unique roles, your training and path will be quite different depending on what specific MOS you hold within the artillery field. High skills in math, management, teamwork, precise communication are all vital to artillery personnel.
Job outlook after the military: The job outlook is going to depend a lot on what MOS you held within the artillery field. Information Assurance Technician and Cyber Warfare What they do: Information assurance technicians originally started out with the direct purpose of ensuring the security and confidentiality of communications within military and government applications.
The position has slowly morphed into more of a cybersecurity role as the threat of online and digital attacks rises with furthering technology. A PMOS cybersecurity technician is tasked with securing all digital information and ensuring proper authentication protocols are met and consistently updated.
Your role inside this PMOS may vary as there are many facets of securing digital data, however, most cybersecurity specialists will take on a somewhat advisory role putting them into direct communication with commanding officers and advising them on what assets need further security and what new facets of cybersecurity need addressing. You may enjoy working in a fast-paced team-based environment but you also may find yourself enduring tasks that require you to problem solve, analyze and research independently.
As you advance through your training and take on a cybersecurity position, cyber warfare becomes an avenue open to you once you achieve the rank of sergeant. Cyber warfare and cyberspace command is an entire entity inside of the Marine Corps tasked with ensuring the protection of U.
Cyber warfare is very selective and very competitive to gain a position inside of but very rewarding both financially and by building skills you can use in the private sector.
How to become one: First and foremost you must begin your path as a Marine in the following MOS: network specialist , data specialist or data chief Although the Marine Corps will train you sufficiently to do your job, cyberspace is a constantly changing environment that may merit retraining or new training tactics that you need to remain up to date with.
After graduating from the aforementioned training courses you will be required to have at minimum two years remaining on your active duty contract and you must possess a GT score of or better.
First, you must be eligible for sensitive compartmented information and then you must acquire and remain eligible for a top secret security clearance. Job outlook after the military: Becoming a Marine Corps cyber security technician is arguably one of the best routes into a high paying and highly rewarding public or private sector career path.
A study found that the outlook of public and private sector data security positions is projected to grow by over 30 percent in the next few years which is a projection that far exceeds job growth from most other sectors. There are projected to be many open jobs for those of you with the skills and training of a Cyber Security Technician and as more companies look to online communications and cloud-based information storage, your role is projected to remain relevant and in demand for many years to come.
Kevin Wabiszewski is a former 60 mm mortarman with 3rd Battalion, 4th Marines.
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