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From: Robert Tucker
Dated: July 15, 2014
Subject: Vietnam Era MOS's
I was both on air (radio & TV VOs) and on the tech side as a videotape tech. My MOS was 26T, which I don’t think exist any more.
Robert Tucker Saigon 1971-‘72
From: Forrest Brandt
Dated: July 13, 2014
Subject: Vietnam Era MOS's
Developing an enlisted character who's serving in Germany in the 60s. He's gone through DINFOS and been sent to 7th Army PIO shop . Would he be listening to AFN or AFNE? What would his MOS be? If he'd been drafted would he have had to extend to get Germany? Living in barracks in Heidelberg? Would his mail be censored? Would he call himself an army journalist? A PIO? Would he have a security clearance?
Thanks,
Forrest
From: Craig Prosser
Dated: July 15, 2014
Subject: Vietnam Era MOS's
When I got out of the Information School (USARIS) in early 1963 my MOS for radio broadcaster was 703. Print journalists were 701's. Sometime later that year or in 1964 the numbers changed and I became a 71R20.
Craig (AFRS 63-64)
From: Dick Ellis
Dated: July 15, 2014
Subject: Vietnam Era MOS's
Actually...it was Broadcast Specialist...That is what it says on my 201-file and DD-214.... I asked for the designation of TV-Star but they only had Specialist!!
Dickie
From: Ron Bartlett
Dated: July 15, 2014
Subject: Vietnam Era MOS
Speaking only for the TV side of things 84e was television camera person and 84f was television production specialist. I came out of my 11B with both an 84e and 84f secondary.
From: Randy Kafka
Dated: July 15, 2014
Subject: Vietnam Era MOS's
Hi Dickie/Bob, et al,
I will to defer to the grand old men who came before me, Joe C., Ken K. and many more in this crowd. Even though we all went to the same school, if he had been Navy, and a print Journalist, he/she would have been a Navy Journalist NEC 0000. If you were on the broadcast pipeline, you would have had to pass the DINFOS voice test......I think that script is actually on the net somewhere, and you would then be Rundasized, is Mr. Runda even still around? After completing the Broadcast course, you would have earned your broadcast NEC (Navy Enlisted Classification) of 3221. Later in my career they came out with a Broadcast managers course, NEC 3251.
Hopefully the grand old men of the Navy on this list have the same memories.
Side note.....most Navy broadcasting stations with the cypher locks on them.....the four digit code to get in was 3221.
From: Bob Morecook
Dated: July 15, 2014
Subject: Vietnam Era MOS's
Forrest, For your story here are Vietnam era MOS's.
71Q Print Journalists
71R Broadcasts Journalist.
[These are now changed -- journalist is now 46]
Bob M
From: Frank Rogers
Dated: July 15, 2014
Subject: MOS
I was the same as Craig 703 then 71R. Had a lot of additionals, including medic & military intelligence.
re Navy: The absolutely BEST Navy on-air broadcaster we had at FEN in the early 70s was Gary Kolasa, actually a rated Radioman. I don't know how he came to us, but he was great! He did the morning show and was so good he could poke humor at "the brass" in such a manner they loved it. He took Scouts on "Junior Peace Corp" tours to places like Nepal, Thailand, etc during leaves. He wasn't in commercial broadcasting before or after the Navy .. worked for the Catholic church in Michigan.
Frank
From: Ken Kalish
Dated: July 15, 2014
Subject: Vietnam Era MOS's
Yes, we were 3221 as broadcast journalists.
Ken
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Army MOS's - Broadcasters and Journalists
July 2014