I was lucky and served in a Divisional Engineer Unit, which supports maneuver units. Department of Defense Photo (USMC) A371988. If you are looking at the Army as a way to get some real world job experience, the 12T translates back to the civilian world a lot better than an 11B. former Marine officer who served as a rifle company commander in Vietnam. Marine Infantry (Field 03) is the backbone of the military branch with a primary goal of seizing and controlling terrain. OTOH, I branch transferred to the Engineers when I moved to Kentucky and I liked duty as an Engineer. So if you want 11B, tell the recruiter you will just wait until a slot opens and my guess is that he will find an open slot.

I have a very good GT score and the list of MOS's the recruiter offered did not include 11B, which is what I volunteered for anyway and again when I commissioned. It has also been my experience that National Guard recruiters try to fill the vacancies from the local units first, so if you don't have a local infantry unit, they won't push that MOS. I suspect that you have a very good ASVAB score and that the recruiter is trying to fill a slot since the line scores required for a 12T are higher than for an 11B or 12B, which have the same ASVAB line score requirement BTW. Your MOS is determined by your skills, interests, and the needs of the military. The availability of an MOS in a National Guard Unit depends on what units are in the state and from their website they have slots for 11B's and 12B's. In the military, your MOS, or Military Occupational Specialty, is a specific job that you are trained to perform within your branch of the military.

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