MOSs on the move

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MOSs on the move
By Jim Tice - Staff writer
Posted : Monday Jun 2, 2008 6:09:33 EDT

The latest round of the Army’s annual overhaul of its job classification system means tens of thousands of more soldiers will have to retrain and even switch specialties to move up in a rapidly changing force.

The recoding of officer and enlisted military occupational specialties began eight years ago and is nearly complete, but force-structure changes and new equipment have triggered a major overhaul of the skill identifiers key to soldier assignments.

The Army revises its job classification system annually based on changes to the design of units in the field.

The changes that take effect Oct. 1 will have wide impact on officers and enlisted troops and have been in the works for the past two years.

Randy Newman, chief of the MOS classification and structure branch in the Office of the G-1, said the Army’s phased recoding of officer, warrant officer and enlisted specialties is about 90 percent complete.


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