The MOS for Marine Corps Security Force is 8151/52. This is a special MOS. Normally, the primary MOS is 0311, but it could also be any one of the other ground MOSs. The postion is a guard; however, aboard a Navy ship (usually aircraft carrier) and at embassies, the personnel who make up the MCSF contingent are also trained in Fast Reaction tactics, referred to as FAST. As far as the ASVAB score, it would be the same as a 0311. After completing bootcamp and then Infantry Training Battalion, and during your 1st tour of duty with an infantry unit, you will can apply to go go to MCSF training at Quantico VA. You will have to be one of the most squared away Marines in your unit. There is no room for error in the MCSF. The Quantico MCSF instructors are very stringent and rigid in their training curriculum. The make sure that only the best graduate.
I have provided the description for the MCSF MOSs below. It is a great goal that will start the day you check-in for bootcamp. Everyday in the Corps, do you absolute best in training and application of tactics. Take Marine Corps Institute courses after ITB. Always use your initiative to complete all required tasks before being told to do them. This is how you "shine" among your Marine Corps peers and how you will get approval for attending MCSF school.
Lieutenant Colonel, United States Marine Corps-Retired
MOS 8151 - - Guard
Job Description: Guards enforce, or supervise the enforcement of security measures and the protection of classified material and United States property and personnel.
Job Requirements:
(1) Not to be assigned to personnel either as a primary or additional MOS.
(2) To be used only as a billet designator in T/O's.
Duties:
(1) GySgt to Pvt:
(a) Enforces military or Department of State regulations and orders.
(b) Controls entrances and access to military installations, United States diplomatic missions, or other designated establishments.
(c) Verifies authenticity of passes and identification cards of military personnel, civilian employees, and visitors afoot or in motor vehicles entering or leaving installations or diplomatic missions.
(d) Prevents unauthorized removal and theft of United States Government property.
(e) Makes periodic checks of standing lights and locked doors and designated secure areas.
(f) Receives and verifies guard property.
(g) Maintains guard property accounts and guard report logbooks.
(h) prepares offense, accident, unusual incident, injury reports and correspondence pertaining to activities of a guard unlt.
(i) Assures that scheduled bugle calls are sounded.
(j) Conduct guard mount.
(k) Inspect and instruct guards and sentinels while on post.
(l) Supervises or assists in the supervising of the guard of the day during emergency situations.
(m) Directs traffic, escorts visitors, or vehicles delivering supplies and equipment.
MOS 8152 - - Marine Corps Security Force (MCSF) Guard
Job Description: The MCSF guard will be assigned to duty with MCSF units. He will be physically fit and mentally capable of enduring the rigors of combat. He will have the requisite knowledge to safely and properly employ the service rifle, pistol and shotgun. As a member of a reaction force, he will conduct offensive infantry tactics in confined spaces, ashore and afloat, to restore breached security and provide the final barrier/element of an integrated security plan for the asset being protected. He also must possess skills in land navigation and patrolling. In the grades of corporal through gunnery sergeant, as a security supervisor, the Marine will plan, evaluate, and supervise the implementation of site-specific security plans to protect assets designated as vital to the national security.
Job Requirements:
(1) Must meet prerequisites prescribed in MCO 1300.20, 5510.7, MCO 5521.3, and MCO 6100.3.
(2) Complete the Marine Corps Security Force Guard Course.
(3) To be used only as a billet designator in Marine Corps Security Force T/O.
MOS 8156 - - Marine Security Guard (MSG)
Job Description: The MSG will be assigned to duty to one of 140 plus MSG detachments around the world. The MSG will provide armed internal security to designated U.S. diplomatic and consular facilities to prevent the compromise of classified information and equipment vital to the national security of the Unites States. As part of the MSG detachment, the detachment member's secondary mission is to provide protection for U.S. citizens and U.S. government property located within designated U.S. diplomatic and consular premises during exigent circumstances, which require immediate aid or action. The detachment member will be physically and mentally capable of enduring a direct counter-intelligence and combat environment, master interior guard procedures, be proficient with security, anti-terrorism, and counter espionage tactics. The MSG member must also be knowledgeable in law
Answered By: Marine - 5/16/2010 |