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cjmcclenan
01-30-07, 08:53 AM
I am currently an 0151-Personnel Clerk in Fort Gordon, GA. I've got about another 1 1/2 yrs left here and I'm looking at going in to the 1316 field. Can any one give me some advice about the course and stations after the school?

jp2usmc
01-14-10, 09:48 AM
That was my MOS. What are you wanting to know about it?

I was stationed in Okinawa, the Philippines, Camp Pendleton, and Saudi Arabia (Gulf War era). If you want the 1316 MOS, you need to be a good artist and creative. If you aren't a good artist, you won't be able to make a decent weld. If you aren't creative, you won't have any idea how to fix what is broken with the junk you have lying around.

Vandrel
01-14-10, 05:40 PM
Welders are bad ass, always fixed my **** when it broke

Hope you enjoy the ass crack of Lejeune, Courthouse Bay :D

jp2usmc
01-14-10, 09:25 PM
Welders are bad ass, always fixed my **** when it brokeTracks, huh?

Below is an old 'track I put the mods on so they could carry more armor. We did a couple hundred of them, if I remember correctly - Probably even one you rode in!

http://lh4.ggpht.com/_dWwXockqCZk/S0_ewAPADtI/AAAAAAAACCY/cStH4Usd6gM/JP000707.jpg

Vandrel
01-14-10, 10:02 PM
Ah yes, good ol' straight legs. I started out in those before we phased them out just prior to the OIF invasion. My track was usually in the weld shop because I managed to jump it in the air at Bragg in one of the LZ's, cleared maybe 20 feet off the ground doing about 40mph, doesn't sound like a lot to most but in a 27 ton tracked vehicle it's pretty ****ing scary. Everyone in the back flew up in the air :D

jp2usmc
01-15-10, 08:02 AM
{sigh}

...and they wondered why the welds break.

Hotel4341
01-15-10, 08:07 AM
Damn corporal, this post is nearly three years old. How the hell did you even find it?

jp2usmc
01-15-10, 08:12 AM
@Hotel4341: Did a search on my MOS: 1316.

I found several posts asking about the MOS with no first hand responses, so I thought I'd start filling in some gaps.

Some posts were too old, and replies were no longer allowed.

Vandrel
01-15-10, 10:42 PM
hahaha I just noticed how old this thread was