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Heading to Drill Sergeant School in a few months, my ERB says I’m going to Fort Benning after, I’m a 91B can I do BCT there with Armor or Infantry? Wasn’t sure if support MOS can be Drills for OSUT.
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Responses: 19
We had non 11 series Drill Sergeants in OSUT in 1984. Most of ours were 11Bs, but we did have a few non-11s. You don't know it until the day you wear dress greens and you notice some uniform items are missing. I opted to not complain, as one of my DS was finance and probably one of the meanest ones in the whole company.
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Yes. You won’t teach any real MOS specific skills but you can teach basic Army skills
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Yes... I had a wake up call when I was an Instructor at FLW.I was briefing a SFC Drill Sergeant on what we were going o do for the days class and how I needed Soldiers to enter the room and go to tables and not touch anything until directed. As I was doing this I was also taking apart an M9 pistol. The DS stopped me and asked what I had just done. I had to ask her what she meant. She pointed at the Pistol and asked me what I had done to it. Then she said she was a 42A not a 31B. It totally blew my mind that noone had warned me that we had non-MP's as DS.
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No, you will not be involved with OSUT. BT is a lot more fun anyway. Enjoy the tour. Thank you for your service.
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I went Fort Benning for BCT and I’m neither Infantry nor Armor and all 3 of my Drill Sergeants were support MOSs so I’d think you’d most likely be assigned to a BCT site like 2-47.
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SSG (Join to see)
Exactly! I was E Co 2-47 with the same situation, but that was 8 years ago. PFC Jeffrey Herrington
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SSG William Bowen
Ft. Benning has Infantry and Armor OSUT, and I think Cav. They also have plain old basic training. My son went there for basic, then on to Ft. Sam Houston for AIT.
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SFC Dan Sorrow, M.S.
When I was in, it was only OSUT for Infantry. No regular basic training and no other combat arms or combat support MOSs.
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SSG William Bowen
Me too (84-91). They closed down Ft. Knox several years ago for Armor and Cav and moved them to Ft. Benning. I don't know when they started doing a basic only program. It has been quite a few years now though.
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SFC Dan Sorrow, M.S.
Good to know! Thank you! I was stationed at Benning twice (80-81 and again from 84-88). Went to Drill Sergeant School there in 88.
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