Marine Corps · MOS history

9972 Aircrew Trainee

The 2006 MOS manual change renumbered MOS 9972, Aircrew Trainee, as MOS 8972. This moved the classification from the 9000 reporting category to the 8000 miscellaneous-requirements category.

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Documented history

Aircrew Trainee

The manual was effective May 15, 2006, but personnel-system implementation was explicitly deferred. No specific implementation date for the 9972-to-8972 change is given, so 2006 identifies the manual transition rather than a confirmed personnel conversion date.

Source extraction notes

The cited source prints the MOS code but not its occupational title; no title was inferred. Enlisted MOS moved from reporting category 9000 to miscellaneous-requirements category 8000. 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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