Marine Corps MOS · Combat & Infantry

0869 Artillery Unit Leader

Current service use not established

This code is listed in the directory. Inclusion alone does not confirm current service use.

Overview

An Artillery Unit Leader assists the commander with planning, training, deploying, and employing the unit's organic weapons systems and combat power capabilities. This leader supervises and coordinates personnel and equipment assignments and may serve in battery, battalion, or regimental field artillery leadership positions.

Minimum clearance: Secret

Core Skills

  • Personnel and equipment assignment against organizational tables
  • Weapons system deployment and employment planning

Civilian Career Paths

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Dispatchers, Except Police, Fire, and Ambulance

Coordinating personnel and equipment preparation and assignment transfers to matching civilian crews and equipment to service needs.

How to prepare: Practice building a daily service-dispatch schedule in a spreadsheet, assigning crews and equipment to sample work orders and revising assignments when availability changes.

What the civilian work involves
  • Schedule or dispatch workers, work crews, equipment, or service vehicles to appropriate locations, according to customer requests, specifications, or needs, using radios or telephones.
  • Prepare daily work and run schedules.
  • Confer with customers or supervising personnel to address questions, problems, or requests for service or equipment.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Microsoft Excel

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (2 documents)
  1. NAVMC 1200.1L (FY26, in force): MOS 0869

    [1] MOS 0869 section "a. Summary"; cached text line 31301; NAVMC 1200.1L signed 2025-03-07, in force until 2026-10-01

    Supports: Personnel and equipment assignment against organizational tables, Weapons system deployment and employment planning, Dispatchers, Except Police, Fire, and Ambulance (O*NET 43-5032.00)

  2. O*NET: Dispatchers, Except Police, Fire, and Ambulance

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Dispatchers, Except Police, Fire, and Ambulance (O*NET 43-5032.00)

Defense contractor jobs for 0869

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