Marine Corps · MOS history

8563 Water Safety/Survival Instructor

MOS 8563, Water Safety/Survival Instructor, was converted to MOS 0918 as part of the move to the new occupational field 09, Training.

Codes named in this history

Codes without a directory match

  • 0918 stated by the source. No directory or archive record matches.

Documented history

Water Safety/Survival Instructor

The manual was effective May 15, 2006, but implementation in personnel systems was explicitly deferred. The conversion belongs to the 2006 classification transition; no specific personnel implementation date is given.

Source extraction notes

The cited source prints the MOS code but not its occupational title; no title was inferred. Enlisted MOS moved to new occupational field 09, Training. The manual is effective 2006-05-15, but personnel/HRDP implementation is explicitly deferred, so effective_to is null. No row-specific effective date is printed; year-only precision reflects the 2006 manual transition.

Source documents (2)

Reviewed September 24, 2026 against references 1, 2 and 3.

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