25U, what do you love most about your job?

Being a 1SG and leading Soldiers. Very few signal MOS are groomed to be leaders. Fortunately 25U spend most of their time in BCT and are company Chiefs at a young age. Keep taking the leadership positions as you come up through the ranks and you will be successful. Nothing more satisfying and challenging than going to work everyday knowing the entire company depends on your experience and knowledge because you are the 1SG.

Definitely the versatility of work. Being able to work on many systems. Automations to tactical comms and being able to do the work of various MOS's to include several non-signal duties (in limited scope of course) becoming a better-rounded soldier IMO.

Then again I always felt 25Us were only as good as their desire to continually learn and grow and that sadly seemed pretty rare in my experience. Most 25Us I met couldn't load COMSEC, accurately PMCS, rewire anything or have any clue how to troubleshoot computers, or basic networking skills. I openly despised the vast majority of 25Us I met who were so incompetent they couldnt master even 50% of 10-level tasks SMH, people like that made 25U a joke among signal corps.

As a former 25U turned 29E, I am going to be frank and say the versatility in equipment and personnel I got to train with. But, I dove into the regulations and field manuals head first and tried to learn all I could. Ended up helping me in the long run as I was the SME across multiple Battalions as an E4(P)