2511 Wireman

2511 was the historical Marine Corps enlisted MOS for Wireman. Wiremen laid and maintained field wire, installed and operated field telephone switchboards, and installed field telephone equipment. The Defense Department's 1972 comparability manual and the Navy's June 1975 training report identify MOS 2511 as Wireman. A January 1969 Marine Corps operation order also lists 2511 for a Radio/Wireman billet. These sources do not establish a retirement date or direct personnel conversion, so no successor or effective transition dates are asserted.

1. Department of Defense, Military-Civilian Job Comparability Manual, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Manpower and Reserve Affairs)

   Official Department of Defense publication · Source date: 1972

   Location: Marine Corps section, printed p. 128 (PDF p. 138): Wireman (2511). Lays and maintains field wire; installs and operates field telephone switchboards; installs field telephone equipment; companion entry Wire Chief (2519) on the same page; dated [1972] in the June 1972 Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications, entry 8104

   Supports: The exact specialty title Wireman and the official duty description for Marine Corps MOS 2511

2. 3d Shore Party Battalion (Rein), Operation Order 1-69, Appendix 1 (Security Platoon Organization) to Annex A, 3 January 1969, Quang Tri Combat Base, RVN (Texas Tech Vietnam Center and Archive)

   Primary Vietnam-era Marine Corps operation order · Source date: January 3, 1969

   Location: Billet table row: Radio/Wireman, LCpl or below, MOS 2531/2511, strength 1

   Supports: Wartime primary usage of MOS 2511 in the wireman billet

3. TAEG Report No. 22-1, Analysis of Commercial Contract Training for the Marine Corps (Phase II), Naval Training Equipment Center, Training Analysis and Evaluation Group

   Official Naval Training Equipment Center report · Source date: June 1975

   Location: Table 1, Navy and Marine Corps skills analyzed (continued), PDF p. 23, row: 2511 Wireman, DoD Code 621

   Supports: Contemporary Navy inventory of MOS 2511 under the title Wireman