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16H Air Defense Artillery Operations/Intelligence Assistant

MOS 16H, Air Defense Artillery Operations/Intelligence Assistant, was deleted. Its listed successors were 16F (Light Air Defense Artillery Crewmember), 16J (Forward Area Alerting Radar Operator), 16P (Chaparral Crewmember), 16R (Vulcan Crewmember), and 16S (MANPADS or PMS Crewmember).

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Air Defense Artillery Operations/Intelligence Assistant

The change is dated October 31, 1989; June 26, 1995 is the publication date of the cited regulation.

  • The criteria for determining which successor specialty applied are not stated.
Source extraction notes

AR 611-201 Table B-2 maps deleted MOS 16H to 16F, 16J, 16P, 16R, 16S; source successor entries: 16F Light Air Defense Artillery Crewmember; 16J Forward Area Alerting Radar Operator; 16P Chaparral Crewmember; 16R Vulcan Crewmember; 16S MANPADS or PMS Crewmember; update/effective date 1989-10-31.

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Reviewed September 23, 2026 against references 1 and 2.

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