In terms of military what does MOS mean? And what is a SAW?

Answer 1

MOS- military acronym for Military Occupational Specialty. (GET used to acronyms if you go in). It basically means you job, in the Army it is usually a digit number followed by a letter. The two digit number indicates the career field, and the letter indicates the particular area of the field. For example my Primary MOS is 25S, 25 indicates Signal Corps, the "S" indicates satcom operater. My secondary MOS is 11B. 11 indicates infantry, the "B" rifleman. There are also other letters like P which are special designaters like P for parachutist.

SAW is the acroynm for the Squad Automatic Weapon. It is a 5.56 mm light machine gun, and is the heaviest weapon in a line squad. It is also the weapon I carried in Afghanistan for 9 months.

Answer 2

Military Occupational Specialty, Squad Automatic Weapon.

Answer 3

Military Occupational Specialty

Don't know about SAW.

Answer 4

MOS= Military occupational specialty

SAW= squad automatic weapon

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Answer 5

MOS = Military Occupational Specialty (What you do in the Military)

SAW = M249 Squad Automatic Weapon
http://www.military.cz/usa/weapons/guns/samopaly/m249_saw/m249saw_2.jpg

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crap he beat me to it lol

Answer 6

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Answer 7

MOS means the same as JOB. SAW means the things you use to get your MOS done.

Answer 8

military occupational specialty

squad automatic weapon

Answer 9

Yeah, what they have all said! :)