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0491 Logistics/ Mobility Chief

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Overview

A Logistics/Mobility Chief plans, coordinates, conducts, and supervises Marine Corps logistics operations. They plan and execute MAGTF deployments, communicate logistics and strategic mobility requirements, and facilitate unit logistics and embarkation training.

Core Skills

  • Tactical to strategic deployment planning
  • Interagency coordination of strategic mobility requirements
  • Combat cargo support aboard amphibious ships
  • Unit logistics and embarkation training

Civilian Career Paths

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Logisticians

Planning deployments and communicating logistics and strategic mobility requirements to agencies inside and outside the service transfer directly to coordinating customer logistics needs.

How to prepare: Build a civilian logistics case study that translates a deployment-planning example into customer requirements, delivery targets, and a performance review.

What the civilian work involves
  • Maintain and develop positive business relationships with a customer's key personnel involved in, or directly relevant to, a logistics activity.
  • Develop an understanding of customers' needs and take actions to ensure that such needs are met.
  • Review logistics performance with customers against targets, benchmarks, and service agreements.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Microsoft Excel
  • SAP software

Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers

Supervising logistics operations and coordinating deployment execution provide directly relevant experience for organizing transportation and distribution work across departments.

How to prepare: Create a commercial shipping workflow showing staff assignments, shipment handoffs, and coordination with order management and accounting.

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

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (3 documents)
  1. NAVMC 1200.1L (FY26, in force): MOS 0491

    [1] MOS 0491 section "a. Summary"; cached text line 29255; NAVMC 1200.1L signed 2025-03-07, in force until 2026-10-01

    Supports: Tactical to strategic deployment planning, Interagency coordination of strategic mobility requirements, Combat cargo support aboard amphibious ships, Unit logistics and embarkation training, Logisticians (O*NET 13-1081.00), Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers (O*NET 11-3071.00)

  2. O*NET: Logisticians

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Logisticians (O*NET 13-1081.00)

  3. 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)

Defense contractor jobs for 0491

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