Marine Corps MOS · Logistics

0430 Mobility Officer

Current service use not established

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Overview

Mobility Officers plan and execute unit movements of personnel, supplies, and equipment through all modes of transportation. They prepare and execute plans to deploy, sustain, and redeploy Marine combat forces, coordinate embarkation and mobility training, and translate operational requirements into mobility support.

Minimum clearance: Secret

Core Skills

  • Multimodal personnel and equipment movement planning
  • Deployment, sustainment, and redeployment planning
  • Strategic mobility requirements translation and coordination
  • Unit embarkation and mobility training

Civilian Career Paths

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Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers

Planning and executing multimodal movements of personnel, supplies, and equipment transfers directly to coordinating transportation and distribution operations.

How to prepare: Build a civilian distribution planning example that connects a movement schedule to shipping, order management, and accounting processes.

What the civilian work involves
  • Supervise the activities of workers engaged in receiving, storing, testing, and shipping products or materials.
  • Plan, organize, or manage the work of subordinate staff to ensure that the work is accomplished in a manner consistent with organizational requirements.
  • Collaborate with other departments to integrate logistics with business systems or processes, such as customer sales, order management, accounting, or shipping.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft Project

Freight Forwarders

Multimodal supply and equipment movement planning and combat cargo assignments provide a foundation for coordinating commercial freight shipments.

How to prepare: Practice planning a commercial shipment with transport options, a timeline, a bill of lading, and a packing list to develop familiarity with civilian shipping documentation.

What the civilian work involves
  • Negotiate shipping rates with freight carriers.
  • Inform clients of factors such as shipping options, timelines, transfers, or regulations affecting shipments.
  • Prepare shipping documentation, such as bills of lading, packing lists, dock receipts, or certificates of origin.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft Outlook
  • Arcline ArcFreight

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (3 documents)
  1. NAVMC 1200.1L (FY26, in force): MOS 0430

    [1] MOS 0430 section "a. Summary"; cached text line 2589; NAVMC 1200.1L signed 2025-03-07, in force until 2026-10-01

    Supports: Multimodal personnel and equipment movement planning, Deployment, sustainment, and redeployment planning, Strategic mobility requirements translation and coordination, Unit embarkation and mobility training, Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers (O*NET 11-3071.00), Freight Forwarders (O*NET 43-5011.01)

    [2]NAVMC 1200.1L MOS 0430: Related SOC titles · MOS 0430 section "e. Related Standard Occupational Classification"

    Supports: Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers (O*NET 11-3071.00)

  2. O*NET: Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers

    [3] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers (O*NET 11-3071.00)

  3. O*NET: Freight Forwarders

    [4] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Freight Forwarders (O*NET 43-5011.01)

Defense contractor jobs for 0430

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