75B: Personnel Administration Specialist

Major Duties: The personnel administration specialist performs personnel and administrative functions in support of company, battery, troop; detachments at division, corps, and echelons above corps; in brigade and battalion S1’s or in other similar organizations, activities and units; and advises the commander, the staff, and unit soldiers on personnel matters. Duties for MOS 75B at each level of skill are:

• Skill Levels
  • Skill Level 1 MOSC 75B1O. Prepares and processes recommendations for awards and decorations and arranges for awards ceremony. Prepares, updates, and coordinates requests for evaluations, to include responding to evaluation inquiries. Prepares and monitors requests for promotions and arranges for promotion ceremony, to include promotion declinations, reconsideration for promotions, and arrange for reduction and removal boards for soldiers on local promotion standing lists. Prepares and monitors requests for reductions, transfers, and discharges. Prepares and monitors requests for identification cards and tags, leaves, and passes, line of duty determination, MILPER data and information management, orders for temporary duty and travel, personnel processing, personnel security clearances, training and reassignment, retention, military and special pay programs, personnel accounting and strength management, transition processing, legal, meal cards, training soldier support file, and unit administration. Prepares SIDPERS input and control data, generates SIDPERS input that applies to unit level, reads interprets, and reconciles SIDPERS generated reports pertinent to unit level, determines reportable changes, category, duty status codes, and other documentation required for SIDPERS transactions. Prepares personnel accounting and strength management. Applies knowledge of provisions and limitations of Freedom of Information and Privacy Acts. Requisitions and maintains office supplies, blank forms, and publications. Types military and nonmilitary correspondence in draft and final copy. Prepares and maintains functional files per MARKS.
    
    
  • Skill Level 2 MOSC 75B2O. Performs duties shown at preceding skill level and provides technical guidance to subordinate soldiers in accomplishment of these duties.

Physical demands rating and qualifications for initial award of MOS. The personnel administration specialist must possess the following qualifications:

(1) Physical Demands Rating: moderately heavy

(2) Physical Profile: 323222

(3) Minimum score of 95 in aptitude area CL.

(4) The ability to type at a minimum speed of 20 WPM.

(5) Formal training (completion of a resident course of instruction for MOS 42A conducted under the auspices of the U.S. Army Adjutant General School) mandatory.

MOS 75B and 75H combined into the MOS 42A in fiscal year 2005.

The major duties, physical demands, physical profile, and skill levels were obtained from Army Pamphlet 611-21.

MOS List for Adjutant General's Corps