Can anyone give any insight on MOS 88N? Is it in your best interest to go overseas to actually be able to do the job?

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Response by Sgt Private RallyPoint Member made Feb 16 at 2018 12:26 AM

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SGT Private RallyPoint Member Here is a previous discussion about the 88N MOS. SFC Private RallyPoint Member might be able to provide some great insight.

https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/what-is-it-like-to-be-an-88n

What is it like to be an 88N | RallyPoint

This is a follow-up from my previous discussion about re-enlist. Yes I have seen the cut-off for 88N and is one of the reason why I want to re-class. 68J felt like a dead end job to me so I hope 88N do not end up the same.

Response by SSG Private RallyPoint Member made Feb 16 at 2018 12:33 PM

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I've been in 88N since 2007 been deployed twice everything I learned in AIT went out the window. If you want to know your job deploy most contracting companies wont normally pick you up with out experience.

Response by SFC Private RallyPoint Member made Feb 16 at 2018 12:58 PM

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its a crucial MOS , we need you in our ranks.

Response by SFC David Bentley made Feb 18 at 2018 12:50 PM

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I think the value of having a qualified mobility officer and to manage the mobility binder, convoy planning and major unit movements like a NTC/JRTC rotation are valuable. Stateside reserve component 88N are the only SME on RCAS-Mobilization Planning Data Viewer. Most commanders are familiar with CSDP but few are aware of Army Regulation 525–93 Army Deployment and Redeployment the 88N bible.

Response by SSG Thomas DeAngelo made Feb 19 at 2018 11:30 PM

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No, this MOS has capabilities in CONUS as well

Response by SSG Private RallyPoint Member made Feb 20 at 2018 12:15 PM

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Yes

Response by SSG Private RallyPoint Member made Feb 21 at 2018 12:32 AM

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The MOS contains very perishable skills. Stateside, unless you're in a MCT, you may loose those skills. Overseas definitely. Especially SDDC.

Response by PFC Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 7 at 2018 9:01 AM

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As an 88N we are crucial components to the US Army overseas. We gather experience that most 88N do not get while in the States. I can proudly say that while I've only been in the Army for 20 months and been learning my MOS for majority of that time, that this MOS is well worth choosing. The experience gained overseas not only puts you ahead of your peers that do not get this opportunity, but it teaches you many things that you don't normally see. My unit has helped me in the areas that I lack in and I continue to learn more as the days go on.

Response by 1SG Private RallyPoint Member made Apr 9 at 2018 11:48 PM

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if your looking for job satisfaction it will have its up and down as any MOS regardless where you go. If you are looking for promotion it gets very steep at the top most cap out at E-7.

Response by SSG Loran Osborne made Jun 27 at 2018 3:26 AM

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You will see more, be challenged more, learn more, promote faster and gain more lasting contacts / post - service job experience by going to overseas posts. While you can learn your job from CONUS just fine, it is like the difference between a graham cracker and a New York Cheesecake, there just isn't a comparison.

Response by SFC Dagmar Riley made Aug 5 at 2018 3:20 AM

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SGT Private RallyPoint Member , I actually did more in my job stateside at Ft Hood, than overseas. Only one of my overseas assignments, had me do everything to include inspecting railcars, which they never taught us in AIT and had to learn from a manual real quick.

Response by CW2 Private RallyPoint Member made Oct 25 at 2018 1:17 AM

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Yes!!!! Especially if you're either a Reservist or NG. You'll be lucky to get a whole lot of experience one weekend a month. Deploy, that's where you'll pick up the vast majority of your experience. Try to get schools like Certified Container management, TC AIMS II Funtional Users, Ammo 62,
Unit Movement Officer Development Planning (UMODP) E-5 and up, and Air Load Planner. Gain the experience and shoot for Mobility Warrant Officer (882A).

Response by SFC Cynthia Eyer made Nov 19 at 2020 8:11 AM

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No, it is not in your best interest to go any where to be able to "do" your job. We are beings, not doings, and in "being" all that is required to facilitate the requirements of any MOS is a mindful, mutually considerate, caring, compassionate, empathetic, honest, just, and educated heart/mind connection. We are all people first, then we are those in a particular branch of the military, holding particular skills innate to our own life force, that enhance the facilitation of all that we choose to manifest (what some call doing). The doing comes first in being in the heart/mind connection and considering all we choose to be in that connection as a "STEWARDSHIP," not a job. We all hold unlimited possibilities for the greatest potentiality. I was assigned overseas because I chose to go overseas. My greatest stewardship, however, was right here in the states, for without me the Brigades' and Battalions' I readied for and transported overseas in the four days allotted me to move them during the beginning years of 9/11 would not have been able to function in their mission for safe guarding and transporting others without my careful, mindful, and loving stewardship of them and their equipment. Whom do you desire to BE in this MOS, and your "doing" will naturally follow, as well as your success.