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What do you think the 10 most important MOSs in the Army are? And list them in order. Under the assumption that the Army is operating as a self sufficient unit with no civilian support.
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Sgt Field Radio Operator
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With these ten MOS''s, your Army could not function. Supply (Logistics) can not operate without Army Contracting. Every MOS is important to mission success, or it would not exist.
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2LT Signal Officer
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I think we are looking at the question wrong here. I think of it like this, if it's time to fight and you have to go into a theatre with nothing but soldiers qualified on just 10 MOSs, which ones would you pick?
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Sgt Field Radio Operator
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2LT (Join to see) - Sir, If you go into combat with just ten MOS's, you will lose men, women and battles.
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SGT Signal Support Systems Specialist
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The band has purpose. The initial purpose was for the communication on the battlefield. Now, with technology our signal corps is able to succeed in the communications realm. And the band is now used for other causes. One of which is extreme important... the morale of the Soldiers. The best Soldier is one who has high morale and is still proud to put on his uniform everyday. The band provides that morale. MAJ (Verify To See) -
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SGT Eliyahu Rooff
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SGT (Join to see) - It's also worth noting that an awful lot of the military musicians have at least a Bachelor's Degree and often a Master's Degree in music. We're not just getting people who couldn't get a job playing in a night club any more.
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1SG Jarius Hansen
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You are, SGT Wright, I believe operating under the mistaken assumption that there ARE MOS more important than others. Wrong Answer.
There are Combat Arms, Combat Support, and Combat Service Support MOS. ALL are important. Without the Infantry, Armor, Artillery, Engineers, ADA and Special Ops, there would be no Army, for at it's heart, every army's reason for being is to fight conflicts that are the result of failed politics and diplomacy.
However, assume you are a front line Infantryman, engaged in a combat action. Or a Guardsman doing a MUTA 6 or AT. Doesn't much matter, with regard to the other MOS.
Without Operations support and Logistic Support working together with Intelligence and Administration, with clerks, truck drivers, pilots, crew chiefs, supply folks, medical folks, armament folks, procurement folks, budget folks, finance folks and maintenance folks at all levels, you'd be on the front lines:
Naked
Weaponless
Without Ammo
Without equipment of all types
Without LBE etc.
Without air support
Starving
No fuel
No mechanics
No paycheck
No bandages and medevac
No way home
Every CMF has a series of MOS designed to directly or indirectly support the Combat soldier, thus CS/CSS classification. You many not need a medic or helicopter dustoff or A-10 support today, but tomorrow you may be screaming for them. Or dead without them.
As you progress through the ranks you will become more and more aware of these, and my advice is, start asking questions of your leadership to learn about them. As a leader, you are all of the above, administration, intelligence, operations and logistics. At Battalion/Squadron and levels above, they have S, G, and J sections with Officers and NCOs to perform all aspects of those, and to get what you need to Company/Troop level and below.
In your Company/Troop, the CO is responsible for both of those, and has the XO and 1SG to deal with all aspects of handling everything the soldiers need. At Platoon/Section level, PL are the last level of Officer, and NCO do all of the rest of those functions in one form or another.
If you are in charge of soldiers, YOU are the admin, intelligence/security, operations and logistics guy. You write evaluations, you give input to training schedules, you schedule or conduct inspections, you let the LT/PSG know how many folks you have to insure the proper amount of ammunition, chow, NVD batteries, etc. If your unit fails in it's task(s) YOU are the first line supervisor. You don't have to become an expert on everything the Army does, but you SHOULD know at least the basic functions of the CS/CSS so you will know where to go in the absence of higher leadership.
If you have great tires, awesome paint, and a multi-speed transmission, but no engine, your car goes nowhere. If you have an engine, you can go, but not if the other components are missing. And if your paint job sucks, no one is going to notice the rest.
ALL the moving parts matter, and ultimately, without any one of them, the entire system fails.
So, in my (not so humble) opinion, NO MOS is any more important than any other. ALL have a function to perform, and all depend on the others to perform those functions adequately.
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SGT Michael Cook
SGT Michael Cook
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Well spoken top
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1SG Jarius Hansen
1SG Jarius Hansen
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Glad so many of you liked the response. Hope you voted me up, for whatever that's worth....
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1SG Jarius Hansen
1SG Jarius Hansen
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LTC Ed Murdough - Thanks, Sir!
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SSG James Dennis
SSG James Dennis
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LTC Ed Murdough - I served with many different units during my career. The best officers I served under listened to their NCOs. Well said sir.
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SGM Mikel Dawson
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SSG (Join to see) List the 10 most unimportant MOS in order. Then imagine you trying to complete the mission without those MOS qualified soldiers.
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SSG David Harper
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I'm surprised no one mentioned Signal. Tsk Tsk!
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SGT Intelligence/Electronic Warfare (Iew) Ncoic
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I've met very few 25 series persons who would be worth talking about. Why take a 25U or 25B, L, S etc when you can have a 35T who can do it all.
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SSG David Harper
SSG David Harper
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SGT (Join to see) - I've never met a ninja but that doesn't mean they aren't out there. Point is simply commo.
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SGT Intelligence/Electronic Warfare (Iew) Ncoic
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SSG David Harper - I know they are out there. Just not enough. Especially out of AIT. If I grab a 25U and ask him to do a 25B's job he wont be able to do it. And vice versa. If I take a 35T He would be able to do both of their jobs and more. If you had to choose to take a screwdriver, a hammer, or a multitool what would you choose?
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MAJ Patrick Hairston CISSP, AWS Certified Cloud Architect
MAJ Patrick Hairston CISSP, AWS Certified Cloud Architect
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Without comms, the only thing you will be saying is "WHAT??, I cant hear you!!"
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SN Greg Wright
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I don't know why you'd want to make fellow Soldiers from the MOS's that don't make the list feel somehow less.
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SN Greg Wright
SN Greg Wright
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MSG David Johnson - Erm...if you're referring to me, perhaps you should note which Service I was in (which invalidates your statement, if applied to me.)
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MSG David Johnson
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SN Greg Wright - I'm a bit confused, I meant no offense to anyone with my comment.
I apologize if you thought it was directed at you.
I spent a lot of years with service members of all services but the Coast Guard.
It's across all services that there are thin skinned individuals, not just the Army or Navy.
Again, I apologize if you took my statement badly towards you.
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SN Greg Wright
SN Greg Wright
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MSG David Johnson - No problem, MSG. Context can be lost in textual communication. Thanks for clearing that up.
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SN Greg Wright
SN Greg Wright
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CW3 Andrew Inman - The CW3 (Former FC1) evidently didn't learn the rank structure during his tenure in the Navy. The CW3 also evidently can't be bothered to read a profile, or even look at a profile picture, it seems. I am not of 'this' generation. I was out of the Navy before you were ever in it.
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SFC Pete Kain
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Infantry is first, all others are support. SMH at this silly question.
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MSG Dan Castaneda
MSG Dan Castaneda
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I spent 9 years in the Infantry then left to do other things. I've yet to support the Infantry, yet they support us. I'm confused.
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SSG Greg Koch
SSG Greg Koch
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You have 11series, and then everybody else. You also have 18 series, and then everybody else. You heard me Cav Scouts, you are support. Except it and move on.
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SSG Chemical Biological Radiological and Nuclear Operations Specialist
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Every support soldier can do your job, and their own job. You can't do my job and your own job. Support soldiers are required to train in team and squad movements all the time, but you'll call EOD, a medic, or a chemical guy when you need them.
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SSG Ncoic
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Another idiotic response
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SSG Squad Leader
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Engineers lead the way!!!!!
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SGT John Mackey
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The infantry may be the queen of battle but the engineers make sure that bitch doesn't get raped
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SPC Combat Engineer
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This is my favorite Sapper saying of all time. Thank you
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PFC Combat Engineer
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Fucking Essayons!
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Awesome question for entertainment purposes only!
I was trained that the combat arms series require at a minimum: beans, bullets and bandaids. Not necessarily in that order. We can logically place intelligence, communications, logistics and some form of transportations.
Pay/contracting "could" be civilianized, so I'll skip that since we're just discussing. The military band is fired and replaced by individuals who also play musical instruments or a tape recorder as needed.
Ima have to agree with MSG Dan Castaneda that the 18 series covers at least the shooting, communicating, intelligence and medical. They can train and run up to a BN sized element so I'll list that as #1.
They require support, so riggers and plane/helicopter drivers, logistics, MISO and higher level medical.
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1LT (Join to see) - Actually... all AMEDD units I have ever been assigned to had civilian S1.
1LT Human Resources Officer
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MAJ (Verify To See) - I was in AMEDD initially sir. We have different experiences. My S1s were all 71 series AG personnel. Speaking of AMEDD, outside of line medics etc, I don't know why we need docs and dentists to be Soldiers at all. Pharmacists, nurses, physician assistants, dentists and so forth learn their crafts outside the military. I haven't observed an Army way to extract wisdom teeth or fill a prescription that's different from the civilian way.
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1LT (Join to see) - I agree that more medical providers could be civilianized. Currently I think about 75% of the providers are civilians and contractors... we need enough to deploy with big army and SOF, write policy and doctrine.
Sec Gates pointed out that if the specialty doesn't deploy - we should buy it on the civilian market. Can't disagree...
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1LT (Join to see) - To be more precise, we need to keep an amount of different providers "in supply" for when we need them. In the mean time, they practice and we get use of their skills in a garrison environment. The military drives many medical revolutions in health care out of our unique practice that occurs about 20 years...

ironically, Army dentist to count the teeth exactly opposite of their civilian counterparts. I'm not going to say if that's good or bad but it is an interesting difference.
SFC S2 Intelligence Ncoic
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COOKS!! Without cooks, nobody eats. And therefore everybody dies. Mission failure.
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I eat MREs most of the time...
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SPC (Join to see) - Yep true. But we have to assume the Army is relying completely by itself, with no support from contractors.
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PFC Emmitt Monslow
PFC Emmitt Monslow
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ill just go to subway thanks! or mre's work
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