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Why, as an able-bodied young man, are you considering a support branch as your first choice?
You are joking right?
Why, as an able-bodied young man, are you considering a support branch as your first choice?
You are joking right?
The stigma is a result of experiences, in most cases. Like it or not, closing with and destroying the enemy is the mission. That's the end all and be all of our existence as a military. All the fluffy crap we do (nation building, vaccinating goats, etc.) is ancillary to our main purpose. The result of that fact is that there will always be a stigma against choosing a branch that's away from the fight.
And the idea that you are somehow putting yourself into a better position to get a job after your obligation is up- is both false and self serving- false because unless you are a Doctor, Nurse, a Pilot or to a lesser extent Lawyer- nothing that you do in the Army will be the same as it will on the outside anyway.
Not at all. Not even one little bit.
Let's all just cut all of the support branches, we don't need them.
Go to a civilian company and tell them that you are interesting in picking their brains for a few years so that you can open your own business later on- and see how well received that will be.
Let's all just cut all of the support branches, we don't need them.
Don't think anybody said that. But they shouldn't be the first choice of a young, focused USMA officer candidate. USMA obviously agrees with me.
And yes, lets tell our newly minted engineers that the Engineering branch is not for you, especially when they carve out a certain allocation specifically for degreed engineers... You sir should be on the front lines.
Don't think anybody said that. But they shouldn't be the first choice of a young, focused USMA officer candidate. USMA obviously agrees with me.
Let's all just cut all of the support branches, we don't need them.
Then who would there be to screw up my travel vouchers!
The stigma is a result of experiences, in most cases. Like it or not, closing with and destroying the enemy is the mission. That's the end all and be all of our existence as a military. All the fluffy crap we do (nation building, vaccinating goats, etc.) is ancillary to our main purpose. The result of that fact is that there will always be a stigma against choosing a branch that's away from the fight.
I am sure it will. Hopefully you enjoy it and you learn a lot. Where are you headed?
And yes, lets tell our newly minted engineers that the Engineering branch is not for you, especially when they carve out a certain allocation specifically for degreed engineers... You sir should be on the front lines.
You do realize that the Corps of Engineers is a combat arms branch and that having an engineering degree is not a requirement to branching engineers?
Oh, wait, obviously you didn't. Perhaps you're thinking of the Air Force.
They are a branch which, under the old system, straddled combat arms and combat support, but were not a combat service support branch. They are still under MFE. For the purposes of branching, USMA considers them a combat arms branch.