Posted on Mar 8, 2017
SCPO Weapons Department Enlisted Advisor
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Lt Col Jim Coe
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All of my specialties were in air operations. I carried 1055 (C-130 pilot) for the most years in it's various forms, 1055A (copilot), 1055B (pilot), N1055B (instructor pilot). I was also a pilot training instructor, primary jet (1355B) and a safety officer (X1355B). During the last part of my career, I was an air operations staff officer (1455). All of the AFSCs have changed and I didn't bother to keep up with what my old specialties have become. Maybe one of the younger USAF folks on RP can translate.
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COL Charles Williams
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31A5S(R). No, never.
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CW2 Targeting Officer
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11C-B1 wouldn't change it for the world
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CPT Lawrence Cable
CPT Lawrence Cable
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Wait until you hit your mid 30's and a MOS that doesn't involve humping a ruck start looking a lot more attractive.
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SPC Member
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27D Paralegal Specialist

I don't know, for eight months I was stuck in S1 not doing my job so I had considered the idea of switching to something if possible. Now I'm in an OSJA and actually doing my job so I'm happy for the moment.
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SGT Philip Roncari
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My MOS was 11 bravo,I was sent to small arms school at Ft.Eutis Va. But upon returning to my unit went back to full grunt mode ,so I guess there was a chance of change ,but I had developed such a bond with the guys in the Company that I could not let them go to Vietnam without me,that was fifty years ago and I don't regret that decision to this day.
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SGT David T.
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When I was in, I was 92F/77F Petroleum Supply Specialist, and 11B Infantry before that. As a federal civilian I am currently a 0301 Project Manager. Before that I was 0346 Logistics Management Specialist, and 1106 Procurement Technician. I would change my series if the right job opened up, but we aren't as tied to it as the military is. So I can change pretty easily.
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SGT David T.
SGT David T.
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SGT (Anonymous) - Being in as one I agreed with you at the time. The points for 6 were maxed most of the time. Even if you made 6, there are too few 7 slots. However, if you break it down to the concepts behind the tasks, it was great to qualify for things in the civilian world. I have made it fit everything from Logistics to Project Management. So there is a benefit in it, just more so after you get out.
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SGT Ben Keen
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I started as a 31R - Multichannel Transmissions Operator/Maintainer or as I started telling people, AT&T in BDUs. A few years later, the powers that be decided to renumber the Signal Corp and now that MOS is a 25Q. I enjoyed most of my job, except for dealing with 30m mast antennas. I had the chance to change it for a reenlistment but I stayed for my entire 8 years and wouldn't change a thing about it even now.
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SGT Ben Keen AT&T in BDU's is definitely more easily understood. Lol. It's interesting the way service members describe jobs to those who are unfamiliar. Ive heard some crazy descriptions.
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CPL Crystal Pettway, MBA
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I was a 75E, Personnel Actions Specialist. No, I would keep it. It is now a 42A, Human Resource Specialist in the Army. All the same. I like paperwork.
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CPL Crystal Pettway, MBA
CPL Crystal Pettway, MBA
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Cynthia Croft - Yes Ma'am. No Problem Miss Cynthia.
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MSgt Matt Hancock
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When I first entered the Air Force I wanted to go into some form of medicine but there were no slots open, so I opted for electronics, namely radio repair (304X4). Spent 4 years chasing electrons and realized that was not my calling. I decided to become a Military Training Instructor at Lackland AFB. I did enjoy teaching the trainees but the politics that surrounded it took away the joy. Then I attended a briefing held at Lackland when a team was recruiting for a career field I didn't even know existed, Survival Instructor (SERE). I talked to my wife, even called my parents and told them of a job that required I take people into the woods, teach them how to live off the land (hunt and fish) and tied it into my Boy Scout background (Eagle Scout and worked at a summer camp teaching wood craft, pioneering, ,etc). I went PCS to Fairchild AFB, went through instructor training and spent the remainder of my career doing something so enjoyable I would never call it work. Even after having worked almost 20 years in nursing (remember my initial desire was the medical field) I still tell folks that teaching Survival was the best job I have ever had.
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SPC Roger Dunn
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12b combat engineer....we get to BLOW SHITT UP..whats better then that
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