Posted on Jun 6, 2023
Dropped 17E packet. How was your experience as prior service in AIT at Ft Gordon? Any insight on your experience and the process?
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SGT Laux, I was a Brigade Commander over the Cyber Training Battalion, which is the battalion you will be assigned to. EW is trained under the Cyber School. Prior Service Soldiers attending EW is very common and training with Initial Entry Training (IET) Soldiers attending EW right after their BCT -- you go through training and education together. You will have a schoolhouse experience, an experience being a "trainee" in a training company with Drill Sergeants for physical training, formations, admin/log, etc, and this is where you will note a difference in management over prior service trainees like you. You will also have an experience just using the resources available at Fort Gordon. If have you a question more specific to any of these areas I can try to answer it or I'll help direct you to a source for CURRENT and ACCURATE information.
Another prior service EW graduate (within the last 2 years) might jump on this board and give you the detailed response you're looking for. Until then, let me know anything you specifically have on your mind.
Another prior service EW graduate (within the last 2 years) might jump on this board and give you the detailed response you're looking for. Until then, let me know anything you specifically have on your mind.
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I appreciate that Sir!
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MAJ Byron Oyler
SGT (Join to see) - Having changed MOS as a PFC at Gordon I feel you will see the main difference as an NCO in how you are treated. My treatment at AIT as a PFC prior service was not that much different than initial training but for NCOs I did see a difference. Everything COL Dan Ruder mentions was true for all but NCOs were expected to act as NCOs.
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I enjoyed the post from 1978 - 1980. Good fishing, running areas, and picnic/camping on base. It is a training base so expect that experience. It was my first official AIT when I was an E6. I was drafted in 1972 and already had a skill the Army could use and sent me direct from bct at Ft Dix, NJ to Ft Lewis, WA. I graduated from bct as an E3.
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