Transportation Management Coordinator

Job Description

As a Transportation Management Coordinator, you will utilize your organizational skills to schedule and coordinate transportation for personnel and equipment, ensuring cargo and Soldiers reach their required destinations. With more than 50,000 heavy trucks and buses in operation—including semi‑tractor trailers, heavy troop transports, and passenger buses—you will organize and oversee the scheduling of these vehicles.

• Advise constituents of shipment and travel entitlements.
• Request and coordinate transport capability.
• Mark, document, and inventory freight, cargo, and material shipments.
• Operate automated data terminal equipment.
• Arrange documentation and reports for follow‑up or responses to tracer actions.
• Perform system administrator duties such as installing software and uploading data to computer systems.
• Prepare equipment, cargo, and personnel for travel to airports, seaports, and railways.
• Request and coordinate transportation to meet a movement mission.

• Interest in motor vehicles, aircraft, and ocean liner vessels.
• Experience in coordinating transportation.
• Interest in planning events and working with people.

Instead of paying to learn these skills, you can get paid to train. In the Army National Guard, you will learn valuable job skills while earning a regular paycheck and qualifying for tuition assistance. Training consists of 10 weeks of Basic Training, followed by six weeks of Advanced Individual Training, with time spent in both classroom and field settings.

• Paid training
• A monthly paycheck
• Montgomery GI Bill
• Federal and State tuition assistance
• Retirement benefits for part‑time service
• Low‑cost life insurance (up to $400,000 in coverage)
• 401(k)-type savings plan
• Student loan repayment program (up to $50,000 for existing loans)
• Health‑care benefits available
• VA home loans
• Bonuses, if applicable
• Most non‑prior service candidates will earn between $200 and $250 per drill weekend, subject to change

• Military enlistment in the Army National Guard.
• Must be at least a junior in high school, or have a high school diploma or a GED certificate.
• Must be between the ages of 17 and 35.
• Must be able to pass a physical exam and meet legal and moral standards.
• Must meet citizenship requirements (see NRA for details).

Requirements for medical and physical standards, and for the procedure and incentives that are subject to change. Your specific MOS assignment may depend on MOS availability. Please consult your recruiter for the most up‑to‑date information.