What MOS

So.. I just enlisted with the US Marines.

Now.. time to decide what MOS I want.

I scored an 88 on the ASVAB, which opens every enlisted job I want, but now I have no clue.

The main ones I was thinking of were 0300 (Infantry) 5811(MP) or 7314(UAV Pilot), UZ(Recon Man[Which my recruiter is pushing me towards]), but I have no clue what to do.

My recruiter also says I should do something technical since I scored very high on that, but it doesnt interest me much. What I'm looking for is something fun that I will like doing for the next year atleast, and most likely in the Combat Arms area, IE no cook.

I know its my final decision, but I also know we have a few Marines on here and Army, which shares the same MOS's.


I ship out between Jan and April... depending on my sisters wedding.

Edited by Linus - 07 November 2006 at 7:54pm

Go infantry. I hear you spend most of your time riding roller coasters and eating cotton candy. 

you should go for combat engineer. get to build, destroy, repair, and blow up things. also it will help you once you get out of the corp

If you're not going with something technical, definitely go with something that allows you to blow things up.

If could join up, I would be infantry of some kind. I like the idea of being a sniper, but it doesn't matter. If I'm going into the military, I'm going to be a soldier, not an engineer or a driver or waterboy or whatever. And I swear, if I could, I really think I would. The only things that would make me think twice is the fact that I don't believe in the Iraq mess we're in right now and the fact that it would be hard to leave my girl. Easy enough to say since I can't go in I guess, but still....

MP.

Heh, OS and I used the same analogy...

0300 (Infantry) - Standard, probably good choice, but more in harms way
5811(MP) - If you feel like being a **edited**
7314(UAV Pilot) - Hey! One of the big UAV companies is here in HR...
UZ(Recon Man) - I have no idea

i have a question to any of the military guys. I was thinking on joing up with the airforce or the army after im out of school, im leaning to the airforce either as a mechanic or maybe a pilot that is if they would take me as one, anyway somneone told me that the army covers most helicopters and thats what id like to get involved in(hints the sig), now does the army or the airfocre cover most helicopters?

Edited by battlefreak - 07 November 2006 at 8:54pm

Kristofer wrote: All the branches have helicopters, pilots for them, and mechanics for them. they all use them extensively. what kind of helo would you want to fly is the question? no guarantee you'll get what you want. but you can find out which services use certain helos then decide on a service. also Linus, you could do EOD. them guys gots balls. youve got to be nuts to disarm a bomb.

Im more interested in attack helicopters like the AH-64 or something similar.