Marine Corps · MOS history

9973 Fixed-Wing Transport Aircraft Specialist, KC-130J

MOS 9973, Fixed-Wing Transport Aircraft Specialist, KC-130J, was designated for conversion to MOS 7312, moving from the 8000/9000 category into a regular occupational field. Implementation in personnel systems was deferred.

Codes named in this history

Codes without a directory match

  • 7312 stated by the source. No directory or archive record matches.

Documented history

Fixed-Wing Transport Aircraft Specialist, KC-130J

The manual took effect on May 15, 2006, but that date did not establish when the personnel conversion occurred. MARADMIN 329/06 was published on July 20, 2006; no conversion-specific effective date or completion deadline is given.

Source extraction notes

The cited source prints the MOS code but not its occupational title; no title was inferred. Enlisted MOS moved from category 8000/9000 to a regular occupational field. 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 and 2.

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