![]() Navy Special Warfare and SARC/MarSOC SOCM qualified medics, as advancement to their training also can attend the final stage of the 18D course. For a total of 322 days, the 18D is learning the advanced skills of the trade. The second half that 18D's go to is another five months and trains on medical problems. Army Special Operation Command (USASOC) positions.Īrmy Special Forces medic (18D): The SOCM course is six months long and trains trauma. SOCM-qualified medics are assigned to the 75th Ranger Regiment (Ranger Medic), 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (SOAR Flight Medic), 96th Civil Affairs Battalion (CA-Med SGT), Special Operations Support Command and in direct-support positions of these U.S. You will also likely, as a lower enlisted soldier in a combat MOS especially, be spending plenty of time just picking up trash along the side of the road and possibly also even mowing lawns like a migrant worker (especially infantry) because there's just nothing else for you to do and your leadership just has to always have you doing these details to keep you busy (and this is not an educational type of environment so that doesn't mean going to the education center and doing college or correspondence courses to better prepare for your future).Army combat medics: Army combat medics (68W) who also have completed Army Basic Airborne Course and Ranger Assessment and Selection Program (RASP) and become members of Ranger Battalions will attend SOCM. Most of the rest of the time, as a lower enlisted soldier (especially in a combat MOS but really MANY MOS's in the Army, which is why so many people preach about considering the Air Force instead or at least trying to get a halfway decent job if you do still go Army, or at least try to be an officer), you will be spending a whole lot of time in the motor pool lifting tents, constantly cleaning out storage shutters, and doing maintenance/mechanics work on trucks. You'll probably deploy to Iraq/Afghanistan and you might go out on "patrols" but even then we are still not at war in today's time so still don't expect to do anything actually related to your job other than training for it in the field back in the states (or Korea or Germany where it'll be bone chilling balls freezing ass cold). You'll merely be TRAINING for your MOS every other month or so by going to the field in the woods and not bathing for weeks at a time. The only time you'll ever actually DO your MOS is when we are at war, which we haven't had a war in decades now. But as others have said, you're in a combat type job in the Army. I'm not cavalry scout (one of my drill sergeants was) so I can't tell you about it specifically. It'll come in handy.Īre the Souls of all dead Troopers camped, ![]() You should just start memorizing this now. Don't take an inch of shit about being cav, once you've earned your place. Add in the radio coordination of fires and engineering missions, and the 19D is probably the most powerful and high impact asset on any battlefield. People make fun of 19Ds but the 11s don't know the range of skill sets, weapons and gear the cav does. Airborne 19Ds tend to bounce back and forth between Polk and Bragg, and now Alaska. If you know you are going to be there for a 2-3 years, you talk with your NCOs when you hit the ground about that goal and spend time developing as solider, hit selection in that last 6 months or so of your first term. Its also a great place to train for SF selection. I went from E1-e5 in a little under 3 years there, 22 jumps, if I stayed I could have gotten pathfinder and jumpmaster locked down in my 1st reup contract. But the job will provide you action and training/school slot opportiunties big army probably won't, and can be a huge springboard if you play it right. ![]() You'll play laser tag for a living for a while and learn a ton of good stuff. See if you can get Airborne in your contract and try to get assigned to JRTC at Ft Polk.
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