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Is the infantry assault Marine MOS no more? Here’s what is really happening and when
By: Todd South  


In late 2017, then-Commandant Gen. Robert Neller confirmed that the Marine Corps would be phasing out one of its infantry military occupational specialties, known as an MOS.

That MOS ― the 0351 infantry assault Marine ― had hovered in a weird sort of limbo for at least a decade.

The position has been part grunt, part combat engineer: a rifleman that can handle demolition and launch shoulder-fired rockets such as the Mk 153 shoulder-launched multipurpose assault weapon.

The explosives and rocket-packing infantryman was supposed to spend time in the weapons company and be tasked out when needed to the rifle platoons for certain mission sets.

https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/your-marine-corps/2019/08/02/is-the-infantry-assault-marine-mos-no-more-heres-what-is-really-happening-and-when/