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I've got a co-worker here at my civilian job who is in his mid-20s with a bachelor's degree in IT. He wants to come into the Marines as an officer and use his degree. How would he go about doing that?
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Officer Candidate
Marine Corps
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IT Marine? What is that? To 1stSgt (Join to see)'s point, MOS's are divided by three. Those slots are then awarded on a performance based division of the top-, middle, and bottom-third of the TBS class. If there are 3 IT billets available to a company of 240 Lts, the young man has a 1:80 shot of getting IT... providing someone else doesn't select it before him. Not sure if it's changed much but, the guys who got what they wanted (MOS) were the future airdales --who came to TBS with an "Air Guarantee" contract. The good news: Not very many Marine Lt's want to go into "Data-Comm/IT." The field has expanded considerably in the last 20-yrs. However, he has a much better chance of going combat arms... Have an Officer Selection Officer (OS) sit down with him.
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Capt Mark Strobl
Sgt Cody Dumont, yes sir! I was being facetious. We relied on the IT guys to log on to our computers, recall our passwords, and migrate to the "E-Corps." The IT guys were initially absorbed by the 25xx-series (Comm) MOS's. However, I believe they've since migrated to their own, independent field.
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Sgt Cody Dumont
Capt Mark Strobl - I heard the changed a few times. There were 4066 & 4067, and then all the fields merged. But that was after my time. I got out in 1998 so I have no idea what happened after I left. I know when I was in the 24th MEU in 1997 we were the first to have email. Love the old Banyan Vines network.
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Cpl Dennis F.
Capt Mark Strobl "Aviation guarantee".....oh hahahahahahahahahahaha.....my M48a3 never once got airborne. I had off the charts scores and an invite to OCS.
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He needs to contact a Marine Officer recruiter. Should be pretty easy to find but even in the event that there isn't one locally, the Marine Corps has a fairly robust recruiting website as well.
http://www.marines.com/home
http://www.marines.com/home
United States Marine Corps
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