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They must also meet time-in-service and time-in-grade requirements before they can be non-competitively promoted. Most first-term Marines up for re-enlistment are likely to meet time-in-service requirements, but they may have to wait to pin on rank if they don\u2019t yet meet time-in-grade requirements. <span class=\"rte rte-comment\">For a lance corporal to make corporal he must have eight months at his current rank and to be promoted to sergeant, a corporal must have 12 months in his current rank.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In some cases, Marines must also meet specific MOS eligibility. Counter intel<span class=\"rte rte-comment\">ligence<\/span>\/human intel<span class=\"rte rte-comment\">ligence<\/span> specialists must be U.S. citizens able to obtain top-secret security clearance, for example, and infantry squad leaders must come from one of five <span class=\"rte rte-comment\">infantry <\/span>MOSs including infantryman, machine gunner, mortarman, infantry assaultman and anti-tank missileman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Once promoted, Marines immediately receive pay and other benefits commensurate with their new rank. However, they will be administratively reduced to their previous rank if they fail to successfully complete the required MOS school. That&#8217;s important to bear in mind when considering particularly difficult schools with high washout rates for operators and intel Marines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For additional details on how to apply, refer to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marines.mil\/News\/Messages\/MessagesDisplay\/tabid\/13286\/Article\/174527\/fy16-intended-mos-imos-promotions-for-active-duty-corporals-and-sergeants.aspx\">Marine administrative message 386\/15<\/a><span class=\"rte rte-comment\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marines.mil\/News\/Messages\/MessagesDisplay\/tabid\/13286\/Article\/174527\/fy16-intended-mos-imos-promotions-for-active-duty-corporals-and-sergeants.aspx\">the MARADMIN<\/a> available online<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lance corporals and corporals who work in hyper-competitive jobs that are slow to promote can pick up rank quickly by making a lateral move into one of 10 in-demand specialties \u2014 including one in the infantry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":41384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_acf":"","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_smg_distribution_targets":[]},"categories":[7,12,69],"tags":[],"coauthors":[1058],"class_list":["post-17838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education-transition","category-news","category-your-marine-corps"],"acf":{"subheadline":"","legacy_arc_id":"NVWTG2NZB5GQTPHPRMM3W2G6TU","arc_canonical_url":"\/2015\/08\/08\/10-in-demand-moss-offer-marines-a-shot-at-quick-promotions\/","remove_feature_photo":false,"is_sponsored":false,"subtype":"","redirect_url":"","disable_inline_ads":false,"native_logo_pretext":"Presented By:"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.0 (Yoast SEO v28.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>10 in-demand MOSs offer Marines a shot at quick promotions - Marine Corps Times<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Lance corporals and corporals who work in hyper-competitive jobs that are slow to promote can pick up rank quickly by making a lateral move into one of 10 in-demand specialties \u2014 including one in the infantry.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"10 in-demand MOSs offer Marines a shot at quick promotions\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Lance corporals and corporals who work in hyper-competitive jobs that are slow to promote can pick up rank quickly by making a lateral move into one of 10 in-demand specialties \u2014 including one in the infantry.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/marinecorpstimes\/education-transition\/2015\/08\/08\/10-in-demand-moss-offer-marines-a-shot-at-quick-promotions\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Marine Corps Times\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-08-08T14:50:15+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-08-08T20:39:49+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"James K. 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