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Martell and LTC Dennis Winr?
Department of the Army Headquarters,
Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel
Pentagon, Arlington VA
In order for the recruiting command (USAREC) to achieve its aggregate accession
mission, there must also be specific MOS requirements to match the accession mission.
The personnel command (PERSCOM) develops these MOS requirements. This paper
will briefly describe the process and interactions among the various systems currently used
to get the right number and”mix of soldiers to support the Army’s end strength
requirements. This paper will define the challenges at the MOS and aggregate level of
detail, exacerbated by the current changing environment, faced by the models and programs.
timing (planning/forecasting), structure versus MOS program reductions, training capacity,
and the effects of abrupt execution year accessions changes will be covered. A brief
description of some specific accession policies will also be addressed. In addition, potential
accommodations by the system to changing demands will be presented.
MOS Level of Detail
Under current procedures, all Army enlistees are assigned a job or a Military
Occupational Specialty (MOS) upon initially contracting. Thus, for Army Recruiting
Command (USAREC) to achieve its aggregate accession mission, there must also be
specific MOS requirements to match the accession mission. These MOS requirements by
grade and quantity are developed centrally at the Army’s Personnel Command (PERSCOM)
and in the aggregate are MOS programs.
MOS requirements are identified using a planning model called MOSLS (MOS Level
System). Inputs to MOSLS include: AAMMP (Active Army Military Manpower Program)
developed from the ELIM-COMPLIP (Enlisted Loss Inventory-Computation of Manpower
Using Linear Programming), projected authorization data from the PMAD (Personnel
Management Authorization Document) or UAD (Updated Authorization Data), and
inventory data from the EMF (Enlisted Master File).
MOSLS then determihes the recommended MOS and grade mix for the MOS
inventories, the gains to the MOS required to meet those inventories, and the training
needed to support those gains. While some of the gains to the MOS will come through
reenlistments and reclassifications, the majority will come through USAREC’s accession
mission. These accessions are referred to as the MOS programs.
I’apcr presented at the 32nd Annual Conference of the Military Testing Association, Novcmbcr lWi),