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To all my fellow 91E soldiers, and this can apply to those of whatever other metal working MOS's of other branches I'm missing.
How often do you actually get to weld? To actually perform your MOS? I've been a 91E since it was a 44B and I can count on one hand the amount of times I've actually performed my MOS. Being in a forward support company with one the largest FMS shops in the state I thought I'd be pretty busy but I guess being National Guard the full timers just take care of it themselves if they can and if not send it off to another post across the state, which kinda leaves me and the other soldiers of my team quite out of practice.
Generally my team is instead tasked with general maintenance, A and an services usually. We're in recovery so we get to play around with the wreckers and M88 a little bit too and a few times I've had the opportunity to do a few recovery missions in support of other units, so essentially I've had considerable more experience as a H8 operator and wheeled vehicle mechanic than a welder.
Not that I'm displeased really, on the contrary it's so far been a lot of awesome experiences and good on the job experience in operating and maintaining equipment. I just figured you know signing on to be a welder I'd be welding.
How often do you actually get to weld? To actually perform your MOS? I've been a 91E since it was a 44B and I can count on one hand the amount of times I've actually performed my MOS. Being in a forward support company with one the largest FMS shops in the state I thought I'd be pretty busy but I guess being National Guard the full timers just take care of it themselves if they can and if not send it off to another post across the state, which kinda leaves me and the other soldiers of my team quite out of practice.
Generally my team is instead tasked with general maintenance, A and an services usually. We're in recovery so we get to play around with the wreckers and M88 a little bit too and a few times I've had the opportunity to do a few recovery missions in support of other units, so essentially I've had considerable more experience as a H8 operator and wheeled vehicle mechanic than a welder.
Not that I'm displeased really, on the contrary it's so far been a lot of awesome experiences and good on the job experience in operating and maintaining equipment. I just figured you know signing on to be a welder I'd be welding.
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91E: Allied Trades Specialist1316: Metal Worker
44B: Metal Worker
91W: Metal Worker
91E: Allied Trades Specialist1316: Metal Worker 44B: Metal Worker 91W: Metal Worker
Posted 10 y ago
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It really depends on your leadership if they know your capabilities and utilize you the right way as PV2 Scott said you can repair a lot of things for the 91B. Personally I have worked for BSB's and FSC's and performed my MOS 95% of the time. When I was at your level I made sure my leadership knew what I was capable of. Also as a 91E you should be able to machine, but as coming in at the 44B days you might not have that skill yet. So long story short most CoC's do not know how to utilize metal workers much less heard of that MOS so like I said you need to inform your leadership of your capabilities. If you ever need advice feel free to reach out to me and will help you out as best as possible.
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In the marines the mos is 1316 and we are being phases out.
im lucky to open the weld shop let alone weld.
i recommend you look into another mos dude
im lucky to open the weld shop let alone weld.
i recommend you look into another mos dude
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I was with the 82nd airborne, 782 hmsc , 84 - 87 and I welded just about every day. I enlisted on the apprentice program and I logged in over 4000 hrs of welding and you could only log 6 hrs a day otherwise it would have been a lot more .
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