military types

[shadowknows69]

what does MOS designation Yankee 68 mean? Anyone?

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

1. never heard of that one

is this person's service record "classified"

LOL

[shadowknows69]

2. I wonder

it was a soldier in my cab tonight who was apparently coming back from a station in Germany because they simply didn't have a need for his specialty anymore. Claimed he was in communications of some kind.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

11. No. Now I know it is BS

all the 60's are medical.

and 68's are medics of various stripes (pardon the pun)
* 68A Medical Equipment Repairer
* 68D Operating Room Specialist
* 68E Dental Specialist
* 68G Patient Administration Specialist
* 68H Optical Laboratory Specialist
* 68J Medical Logistic Specialist
* 68K Medical Laboratory Specialist
* 68M Hospital Food Specialist
* 68P Radiology Specialist
* 68Q Pharmacy Specialist
* 68R Veterinary Food Inspection Specialist
* 68S Preventive Medicine Specialist
* 68T Animal Care Specialist
* 68V Respiratory Specialist
* 68W Health Care Specialist (aka Combat Medic)
* 68X Mental Health Specialist
* 68Z Chief Medical NCO

now 98Y is a communication/intel MOS

[shadowknows69]

14. maybe he intentionally switched the 9 for a 6 to throw me.

crafty those intel guys heh.

[Lost-in-FL]

18. Medical used to be the 91 series

I used to be a 91P or Radiology Specialist

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

19. I know, it changed in the 80s I think

but, I was Navy/Coast Guard, we had NEC's

[Solo_in_MD]

16. Self Delete

Others got the right gouge out there

[rexcat]

3. MOS...

Military Occupational Specialty. Formal job classification, usually expressed as a number or number/letter combination.

[shadowknows69]

5. yeah i know what MOS means.

i was wondering about the Yankee 68. I'd never heard that before either. Unit name maybe?

[Rosemary2205]

4. Can you ask the military type in question what it means?

Surely the person holding it knows what his/her job is.

[shadowknows69]

7. I did

he was a cab customer of mine. He said communications but I was just looking for confirmation from someone who might know.

[lonestarnot]

6. found this.

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread121594/pg6 so special ops? Hell if I know.

[shadowknows69]

10. good find lonestar

makes sense actually. We have some longbow at our base and i've met other communication officers around here.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

8. AH-64D Armament/Electrical/Avionics Systems Repairer

68Y - Maintains electronics on Apache helecopters

but it might be an obsolete code, replaced by 15Y.

[shadowknows69]

12. Bingo

strange. he said they didn't need him in germany anymore. wonder if we're moving some apaches elsewhere for some reason.

[sanskritwarrior]

20. Actually

with us pulling almost all Germany based combat forces and redeploying them to the US mainland, this makes perfect sense

[Ellipsis]

13. found the same thing

Apache Armament/Electrical/Avionics repairers (MOS 68Y)

Its functional subsystems include the FCR, TADS, Pilot Night Vision Sensor (PNVS), IHADSS, Area Weapon System (AWS), Point Target Weapons System (PTWS), and 2.75" Folding Fin Aerial Rocket (FFAR) delivery system

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[cynatnite]

17. They changed the MOS designations since I was in...

http://www.us-army-info.com/pages/mos/aviation/aviation-mos.html

Thanks for the clarification.

Welcome to DU :hi:

[cynatnite]

15. n/t