Military Occupational Specialty (MOS)

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Your Military Occupational Specialty—MOS for short—determines what you do in the corps. In game terms, your MOS is a skill package that provides several skill choices. This MOS might be a rifleman, combat medic or smartgunner, for example. The specialties of AFV Marine and Dropship Crew Chief may only be suitable for vehicle-based games, however. You can find a selection of MOS below.

AFV Marine - When the squad gets itself in the shit, you are the one who has to come bail them out. You are part of the crew of a marine Armored Fighting Vehicle (AFV) such as an APC or tank. Whether driver or gunner, you share responsibility for your vehicle’s maintenance and repair.

Assault Marine (Breacher) - You are a combat specialist—trained for both major assaults and urban pacification. For crowd control, you carry stun batons, riot shields, and use rubber U1 ammo to subdue targets. You also use a big fucking rocket launcher to knock on doors. You are often paired with a Comtech Marine for the ultimate in badassery.

Automatic Rifleman (Smartgunner) - Smartgunners are a breed apart. The M56A2 smart gun’s servo mount may keep it steady, but it takes muscle to withstand the kickback and stay on target. You are tough and dedicated to your role as an asskicker in battlefield fire support—your buddies flush out the bad guys and you blow them away.

Comtech Marine - It’s a modern battlefield—that means remote driven dropships, robot sentry guns, computer controlled bombs, and worse. You are a Comtech Marine—the squad’s tech spec—skilled with computer systems, radios, diagnostic and hacking devices. Comtechs are essential to any squad and play a significant role in Assault Marine and CBRN Specialist fireteams.

CBRN Specialist - You are trained to assess, contain, and quarantine chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear threats. Part field scientist, part rifleman—you’re all marine. Whether it’s a dirty bomb, viral outbreak, or some chemical that melts people’s faces off, you’re the one with the tools who’s cool enough to hold their breath and handle it.

Dedicated Marksman - You are a sniper. You wear a camouflage ghillie suit, blend into the background, and pick off enemy soldiers at long range with your M42A scope rifle. Most platoons employ one or two dedicated marksmen and their spotters.

Dropship Crew Chief - You are the back-seat crewman of a dropship or gunship. On the ground you carry out maintenance, run pre-flight checks and handle loading and unloading. In-flight, you provide sensor and navigational data to the pilot and operate the weapon systems. The pilot might make the ship fly, but you make it go boom.

Hospital Corpsman - You are still a rifleman—but you are one of the platoon’s combat medics, able to provide life-saving first aid and even emergency battlefield surgery if needed. Your squad tends to have your back because they know they’ll need you to patch them up when the shit starts flying.

Forward Observer - The first one on the field—you scout ahead to silently take out enemies and secure a vantage point to set up shots for either artillery or a dedicated marksman. An advanced rifleman, you use silenced motion detectors, full spectrum scopes, ghillie suits, and suppressed Pups to coordinate targets for either your sniper or an airstrike.

Rifleman - As a rifleman, you’re always on the frontline— walking point and looking out for ambushes and traps. The uneducated say you’re just a grunt, but you are much more than that. Part scout and part assault trooper, you are the core of the Colonial Marines’ close combat forces.