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Message: <blockquote data-quote="El Mahdi" data-source="post: 5588974" data-attributes="member: 59506">What Umbran says is right.  They were probably called MOS's in WWII, just like today, but even then and all the way up through today, the actual designations change quite often.  MOS's are combined, then seperated, then reorganized, some are eliminated, and on and on as determined by the needs of the military at the time, changes in technology, equipment, etc., etc. When I first joined the Air Force in the mid 80's, the military was HUGE.  Because of it's size, AFSC's were able to be very limited in scope - very specialized - because we had more people than what was needed and more than enough funding for them.  But as the world changed, and a large cold war military was no longer needed, the military was downsized - with resultant mergings and reorganization of AFSC's.  I'm sure MOS's had changes also. My first AFSC in the mid 80's was Instrument Specialist (I don't even remember the number).  At that time (on B-52's/KC-135's), the aircraft maintenance specialties were (each a seperate AFSC): InstrumentsAuto-PilotNavigation (INS/DNS)RadarCommunicationElectricsEnvironmentalECMFire ControlWeaponsAPG (Crew Chiefs)HydraulicsEnginesSheet Metal/Structural Most also had associated backshops.  By the early 90's, most backshops were being drastically downsized or eliminated entirely in favor of civilian maintenance depots.  And the career fields looked more like this: Flight Control Systems (Instruments & Autopilot)Comm/Nav (Communication, Radar, & Navigation)Electro/Environmental (Electrics & Environmental)ECMWeapons (Weapons & Fire Control)APGHydraulicsEnginesSheet Metal By the late 90's, Flight Control Systems had become Guidance & Control (combining Instruments, Autopilot, and Navigation). On helicopters, the AFSC's were the same, but in practice - Instruments, Autopilot, Communication, Radar, and Navigation are all combined into "Avionics" - mostly due to necessary cross utilization training. Sometimes the AFSC designation would change without the career field actually changing (the name of the AFSC and it's code). In my 21 years in the Air Force, working essentially the same career field throughout (I never cross trained out of my career field and into another), my AFSC changed at least 4 times (maybe 5). Tracing the history of MOS's and AFSC's would be an endeavor even I would balk at, and I actually lived a good portion of that history.</blockquote>

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