Where should I go for my next duty station?

SSG (Join to see) have the children ever been overseas? Fort Riley is huge but it’s fairly close to Kansas City and Lawrence so ther are lots of options for day trips.

Are they now giving Drills a choice of duty stations as they come off the trail? If they are it’s about time. I completed 3 years on the trail in 1984. They didn’t give us a choice.

Many years back,

Bragg was a good place, I was there in 1972/74/75, HY-95 would take you anywhere on the east coast, Key West Florida, to Maine lobsters.
The DMZ Korea was great 1973, if you like being in a hostel fire zone, being there was a deferent attitude of thinking, then, being in a mainland post. That's what I liked the most, a combat way of thinking, being 11 Bravo.
Good thing about Bragg, if you want to go SF, it's right there at Smoke Bomb Hill, as well as, if you like to run.
One of the best SSG I've met and known, was a veteran in the 101st Inf in the Nam, he sure knew his stuff, and then some. Great teacher of the field, and survival for his men under his command. That's him, on the right in my picture, with me at his 6, he was 2nd squad leader, but everyone wanted to be under his command. That's how much respect he got, from others, being such a good leader.
The 4th squad leader was nicked name, "Sweet heart", not our nick name, but the SF training staff in Panama gave that nick name to him, no one wanted to be under his command.

49 years later, he still lingers in my thoughts, as a great leader of men, in the infantry. Don't remember his name anymore, but that's how it was then, you didn't keep names, you just knew if they were good solders or not. Oh, yeah, his first name was "Staff Sargent", that's all what was needed then, we would follow him to hell and back.

So, I gave you a fine example of a good SSG, and the worst SSG, it's all up to you.

"All the Way"

I was in Germany back in 08'-10', pre-family. I have four kids now as well, would love to go back. Get paid to live in Europe, there's lot of fun to be had. Can't speak to the unit climate though, been too long.

Just came from Campbell. Worked with everyone except the armor guys. I can tell you there are no good times in that division. You'll meet plenty of great NCOs, you'll get plenty of high-profile missions, but you will face task saturation, mission-creep, weak/selfish leadership, and some of the craziest/dumbest decisions ever made by Joe and Jane. If you're synced up with the line units, you will spend a lot of time in the field.

Schools on post at Campbell we're good. My kids had great teachers.

I was stationed at Ft Bliss in '73. It is a great location for exploring the mountains and surrounding areas. I resigned my commission there, so can't say much for the command structure as a lot of officers were coming out of the supply closets, never having served in a war zone, trying to reinvent the wheels of war.
Perhaps the command has changed but it was inhabited by the 3rd Cav, which had the mentality of the Civil War Cavalry at the time I was there as a two-tour Vietnam helicopter pilot serving as the communications officer.
It is a wonderful place to explore with your kids and hunt for Poncho Villa's gold.

I was stationed at McDill for 3 years. Base is nice and facilities are good for you and family. Very limited on base housing. You’ll probably want to live north or east of Tampa. Small towns and suburbs are good but can be expensive. Anticipate a 45 min to 1.5 hr commute. McDill has mostly joint headquarters and one USAF flying wing. Not sure what E6 in your MOS would do. Maybe staff job at CENTCOM.

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Good Afternoon SSG (Join to see). Personally, I would look up each location with your wife and see the pros and cons of each such as housing, schooling, civilian jobs (for spouse if applicable), etc. That is what my wife and I did when I got my list of potential next assignments. The first thing we did was rule out any locations we knew that we didn't want to go immediately. I hope that helps. Good luck.

Stay away from Fort Hood now Cavasos because you can google the problem they have there. Campbell is a good place to go if you want to always be training, and be in the field plus you will 100% go to Air Assault school if you do not have it, and as a SSG you better pass it first time (it is not hard idc what anyone says). Fort Stewart I was there rom 2011-2013 coming from Campbell so long time ago, and they were 100% by the book there, and this was with deployments going on. I have friends from high school who have been in the Army almost 20 years who have 3 kids and have been in Germany since 2020 also 11 series and they love it because they can travel around in their off time to other countries. I would take Germany if you, and your wife want the kids to experience a part of the world on the government dime, but do not go there with a ton of consumer debt. However, if your goal is to become a 51C contracting NCO I would do whatever it takes to get into that first then make my move because with that MOS you can go all over the world then when you get out of the Army any defense contractor or government agency will pick you up after retirement starting at 100k plus if you have your last 10 years or more of experience in that job. As to the rest I can not speak to them personally other than I did JRTC rotations at POLK and I would stay away, Korea doesn't sound too kid friendly, JBLM everyone enjoys but its a HCOL area, and Carson seems to be a fan favorite but also a HCOL. great options, and I hope this message didnt find you too late as I did now know I even had a RP account.

Ft. Bliss is your best choice. Mountains within the city limits with over 100 miles of trails for mountain biking or hiking. The food is fantastic and the people are awesome. No better place to be