What Mos are considered POGs?

Pogue or pog is American pejorative military slang for non-combat MOS (military occupational specialty) staff, and other rear-echelon or support units.

What Mos is not a POG?

Whether you hold an administrative position behind a desk at the headquarters building on mainside or you’re an explosives ordinance disposal specialist clearing enemy IEDs, you are a POG. The only people who are not have an 03 or an 11B on their occupational specialty.

Do the Marines have tankers?

The Corps is getting rid of its tanks, so dozens of Marines are joining the Army. Marine tank battalions, bridging companies, and law-enforcement units are being cut as part of a forcewide redesign.

Do POG Marines see combat?

Invasion type deals or when there’s mass combat, then POGs might see some combat. Your best bet if you want combat is to go infantry, and try for 10th Mountain or 101st airborne divisions.

What does Pogue crew mean?

In short—if you’re a Pogue, you live on the south side of the island, also known as The Cut. The Pogues are the working class people, waitering, cleaning boats, running charters for the rich. Essentially, they are the slums of the island—some inherently look down upon its residents based on their living there.

What happened to Marine Corps tankers?

The battalion was deactivated as part of Marine Corps Commandant Gen. David Berger’s larger restructuring of the Corps. With the deactivation at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, California, the Marine Corps officially shut down its final battalion of active-duty tankers.

What is a Marine grunt?

Duncan of the United States Marine Corps once defined a grunt as, “a term of affection used to denote that filthy, sweaty, dirt-encrusted, footsore, camouflage-painted, tired, sleepy, beautiful little son of a b*tch who has kept the wolf away from the door for over two hundred years.”