Army to Begin Job Classification and Training Changes in October

by Alex A. Kecskes

If you’re in the Regular Army, National Guard or Army Reserve, your job classifications and training requirements will change October 1st of this year.

As many as 53 military occupational specialties and over 100 skill identifiers and tracking codes will be affected—in both the officer and enlisted ranks. Starting in 2012, there will be 169 enlisted MOSs (Military Occupational Specialties), 71 warrant officer MOSs and 187 commissioned officer career choices. The changes are in response to improving the Army’s electronic warfare, cyberwarfare and signals intelligence abilities. ASIs (Additional Skill Identifiers) are being created for cryptologic cyber analysts, interactive on-net operators, target digital network analysts, measurement & signals intelligence analysts and operations intelligence analysts.

A new Skill Level 6 and Professional Development Proficiency Codes will enable career managers to consider your most recent experiences and assignment history when filling E-9 positions. You’ll have some level of control if you change your MOS based on published in and out calls, which reveal where Army needs more talent and skill sets.

Promotable senior NCOs who are reclassified to other primary MOSs will be re-sequenced to ensure they are promoted along with their peers. National Guard and Reserve soldiers can be promoted locally to any open slots created by position changes to unit authorization documents. If you’re in a conversion MOS and you received an enlistment or re-enlistment incentive, you won’t recoup your bonus, but you will still get your anniversary payments.

Got any thoughts on how the new MOSs will affect your military career? Feel free to share them in the comments section.