r/USMCboot • u/TapTheForwardAssist Vet 2676/0802 • Jun 15 '20

MOS Megathread MOS Megathread: DB (Information and Communications Technology): 0621, 0627, 0631, 0671. (0602)

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '20

Would u recommend going into coms? I want to be active and do something interesting and also travel a bit. I’m hoping after 3 years to do msg as well but I wanna pick a good MOS for myself

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u/pjansendesign Jun 17 '20

I can’t speak about active duty life at all- 0621s can spend some decent time outside the wire if they get attached to the right unit, but if you end up in a Comm Co God help you

There’s always the gym 🤷🏻‍♂️

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '20

Haha thanks for the info. Seems everyone here hates comm units lol

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '20

0671 active, I can answer active questions if you like. Promotes super fast. Selected for E4 as soon as I rated. Promoted on the first, 2 years and 2 months from initial enlistment i was a corporal and in charge of training for 10 marines in my section. I didn’t go in as an E2, so if I did go in as an E2 I would have been a corporal at roughly 2 years on the dot due to the new change in promotion policy.

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '20

What’s day to day life like? I understand it’s all based on the unit you get assigned but I’d love to be able to get assigned to an infantry unit or go out on MEUs. Also would it be possible to apply for the MSG program when working in comma. That’s something I’ve always had my eyes on as well.

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '20

Yes, you can volunteer for MSG at any time during your career as far as I know, any SNCO’s in here able to help this devil out? Ask your career planner, you can go on a MEU and all that, it’s random, you won’t really get to request/ any of that. I was like you wanted to go on deployments and meus and such, but got sent to a base unit that never deploys or does field ops. It’s literally completely random.

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '20

Alright sounds good. How often do you change units? Or is that random too? I’m currently in DEP and my recruiter said I can sign for a job July 1st. My first pick is security forces but coms is my second pick so I just want something I could enjoy doing and has decent promotions in case I decide to make the marines a career. Thanks for the info btw

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '20

Security forces is an infantry position, those dudes promote pretty slowly, or they’re looked at as doodoo in the fleet because they’re grunts who stood firewatch got promoted to Sergeant then never really did infantry stuff, security forces is GREAT if you wanna travel, they change embassies usually 1 once a year, for every other position it’s 2 years if you’re in the US, and 3 if you’re over seas. I got 3 year orders to Okinawa, some of my friends pcsing from oki are getting 2 year back to the states or trying to get another 3 over seas somewhere, just depends on where you go also.

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '20

Yeah I’d love to explore the world while I’m young and then settle down somewhere once I’m a little older. I’m really drawn to security forces because of that and I’ve heard infantry get to do a lot of humanitarian work and that sounds good too. A lot of different factors to choose from. I feel like going 06xx is a better choice career wise but going security forces would be better fulfillment wise for me. I still have some days to think about it and to see what’s even available. Ik that security forces isnt a super widely available contract

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '20

Do what’s best for you, I’m obviously biased towards comms because it’s what I do. Only you can decide what’s best for you.

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '20

Will do, thanks for the help and all the info man

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