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Description

Distribution Specialists are educated, equipped, and trained to manage fleet marine force requirements at the tactical, operational, strategic, and enterprise level. The specialists use Federal, DoD, and service regulations, the defense transportation system (DTS), commercial modes of transportation, and distribution logistic functions to enable optimal selection and procurement of commercial and government-operated land, air, and sea transportation services. They use a variety of automated systems in the performance of their duties. Warehousing, rail, motor and air terminal operations, materiel handling, packing, packaging, preservation, and marking are daily operations. Distribution Specialists perform technical distribution management duties pertaining to movement of civilian and military personnel and their eligible family members both individually and in groups, using all modes of transportation. This includes planning for troop movements via chartered air, train, or bus, as well as port calls for overseas permanent change of station. The specialists perform personal property counseling interviews to advise members and eligible family members of their personal property shipping entitlements. The specialists perform additional operational duties and tasks at military and commercial air terminals. The specialists perform passport and visa services by counseling members and dependents on required documents, foreign clearance regulations, and by aiding in the preparation and submission of required correspondence to the Department of State and foreign embassies. This includes preparing all freight shipment documents to manifest cargo and passengers aboard government or commercial chartered conveyances. At the operational level, specialists perform in-theater sustainment receiving, shipping, in-transit visibility, and distribution functions.