From the article: Army Enlisted Job Descriptions
Have you ever been assigned to a Military Occupation Specialty (MOS) in MOS Field 91 - Maintenance? If so, tell us what it was like. Did you love your job? Did you hate it? What was your average day like? Share Your Experiences
This is a Comment on the Clearence
- The Clearence you need to be a Small Arms Artillery Repair is Secret because you are handling sencetive items I know this because I was Small Arms Artillery Repair for four long years while I was Active Duty.
- —Guest Frank.Eller
44B aka 91W now
- OK OK I'm currently deployed right now and yes everybody and their mother wants you to make them something. Wheather it's simple or big, the MOS is great you work alot and stay busy. Although the promotion points for SSG suck there's not even points for SSG there's just a star there. Anyways just wanted to give my 2 cents and add in. As for school being 15 weeks when I went in 05 it was 14 weeks maybe it has changed. Take care yall -SGT V
- —Guest SGT V
just an fyi
- i dont know how many people are lookin at this who are thin king about joining or what not but im in training to be a 91-k right now. the training isnt too dificult but before you decide to make a decision on what mos you want realize that the advanced training alone is 20 weeks and 6 days not including the week of field training involved at well as the wait to get into a class and the wait time afterwards.
- —Guest phillips
63b now 91b
- I've been in for going on 2 years now. I've been stationed in Korea...you get to do you job in korea its like a more intensified AIT. You work late often and you are always outside even if it is FREEZING cold. I personally don't like my job, but i feel knowledgeable enough to get out and make enough money in the civilian world but instead i reenlisted. It's a good if you like turning wrenches and working late often.
- —Guest carter
63 B
- I was in the 63 Bravo MOS but I did my AIT at Fort Jackson SC not at Aberdeen Proving grounds.
- —Guest J Montgomery
63 J
- you will never do your job in this mos but you will be crossed trained into 52D, 52C and maybe 63B or 62B
- —Guest Shane Nichols
44B - 91W
- Well you will definately do alot of welding in Iraq that is for sure. I love this job, but cannot see how anyone would career it out. I have been a 91W for 5 1/2 and have yet to see SSG points below 790. It is rediculous. I don't believe points should max. I really dont believe in the point system. I believe that it should be a "we need this many, and put the ones that don't make it on the next round"...not for those that work our tail off, but the Army placed you in an MOS with almost NO advancement beyond SGT. Good luck all, I am going to follow the dark side (officer/warrant) if I don't see things change soon.....
- —Guest SGT DELANEY
63w converted
- times have changed, there once was a 63w slot that changed to 63b.Depending on the shop you went to, you would be a parts changer (good if you have no knowledge of mechanics) or full engine repair. Now they have changed it again i do not know what they changed it to thought. good luck
- —Guest Andrew
It used to be 52D
- Great MOS is you're mechanically inclined. I wasn't. Still, I learned something that I wouldn't have otherwise. In 1984 when I enlisted, it was classified as 52D and part of the Engineering discipline.
- —Guest Kevin McCormick
44B - 91W
- I was going to write something, but I see everyone else already wrote the same thing. Yes it's all true, about people wanting you to make them stuff all the time. About having not much to do in Garrison (home), but I personally worked my a$$ off in Iraq for 14 months. Fortunatly, this MOS I personally find fun when you're actually doing your job :). The inventories are horrible... just like Guest 'female welder' said. Oh yea and promotions... ehhhh.. not bad for Sergeant, but hehe... I have yet to see points NOT maxed out for Staff sgt. Conclusion: Very fun, but not so much work in garrison, and good luck getting your rocker if you stay with it ;)
- —Guest SGT P
91g
- this mos is a cake walk, i went to ait for it but once i got to my first duty station i started doing 91f smallarms repair, all you really do as a 91g is hook a bunch of cables up to stuff, push three different buttons, and change out whatevers bad....too easy!!
- —Guest lostinkorea
Mechince gone Admin
- I haven't done my job since I've been in the military even though I've been in for two years now. When I got to my unit they were already deployed...when they got back I didn't do anything accept for helping unpack. Then we sat around the motorpool. After a while of being bored I started requesting to go to training, like combatives, cls, R4...etc. Then I was put in the mail room. Now I'm in CMD Admin.
- —Guest jc
91m was a 63y
- This is a great job especially if your on a m88. Just remember if it has an engine and a tech manual you'll be fixing it. Just try to avoid the engineer units. They van tear it up.
- —Guest spec 4
Former 52D
- Unless you are in a maint. unit you won't have a job. The best place is i a 3rd shop. Where you will have a job. Where when it comes to you it's all on you and your section. Plus you will learn alot. You never stop learning. However if you don't end up in a place where you have a job you will love it, but if you are where you don't have a job people will have you to do other jobs for example I did 63b work and was never properly trained as well as been reclassified as a 63d without any training either. Both of those are mechanic jobs ad 52d is an electromechanical mos. Where you repair and replace mechanical parts such as oil pan leaks, and fuel lines and the electro part is where the reading of schematics and wire diagrams come in at as well as replacing relays and switches, or tracing a broken wire. Sometimes while under pressure. Both stateside and oconus
- —Taylor972
good luck
- When your stateside you won't be doing much welding unless your motorpool has allot of needed improvements, but when your deployed it'll be nonstop, hot as hell welding.
- —Guest 44banger
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