Originally Posted by
Vandrel
As a Motor-T mechanic he won't really be jumping into the front lines. Most of them sit back in the rear on the FOB's or Camps and service the vehicles that break down. There are some rare times where a mech needs to leave the lines and is called out for on-site work, satallite locations, etc. that don't have any mech's available.
I don't know off hand where Motor-T school is but I don't think it's in NV. Phone calls are always permitted at MOS schools, it's sorta like a mini-version of the fleet. Most MOS schools have barracks rooms and all the regular accomidations that fleet Marines have. I don't see why cellphones wouldn't be authorized either, generally the main thing that isn't authorized in MOS school is POV's.
Deployment after MOS school, well that all depends on where the MOS school sends him for his duty station. Motor-T is a high demand overseas, lots and lots of logistics convoys rolling around to keep the supplies moving between camps and FOB's. Mechanics will be a high desire over there and it's often that there isn't enough which is why there's also civilian contractors out there working as field support reps to pickup the slack where there's not enough maintenance personnel. None of this is a 100% promise because there are so many different deployment requirements that Marines are deployed out-side of their MOS doing provisional infantry related tasks.
Last year (2008) in Ramadi, Iraq my security section that I was given was comprised of a handful of AAV crewman, several Motor-T drivers, a supply guy, a mechanic and a comm guy. None of us were Grunts but all of us were manning towers, watching cameras and guarding entrence gates for our tiny location.
Chances of him switching MOS's now, slim to none. He can always talk to his Senior Drill Instructor and request to see the career planner and MAYBE he will help him out.
