How much time a week do you spend doing your actual MOS?

SPC Bernardy,

During the Drill weekends my section constantly train to the standards of the Infantry. We do not have the time or the luxury of wasting our time not training for what we must do in the field. I task each member of my section to set up some sort of course of instruction from my Squad Leaders to the lowest lever. These tasks can range from basic battle drills mounted and dismounted, TOW training, Marksmanship and PMI.

I also encourage my soldiers to work outside of the drill weekend to ensure proficiency.

Outside of my drill weekends I will usually go over Ranger Handbook, FM 3-55(FM7-93) Long Range Surveillance Unit Operations, and FM 3-21.12 The Infantry Weapons Company, and The Army Study Guide regularly between drills. In the Guard we do not have as much time to train as our Active counterparts so we have to have the discipline to make time to review and keep ourselves ready and prepared at all times.

On average I will spend 15-18hours a week reading through these FM's and working out in order to make sure that I am technically and tactically proficient because I know that my Soldiers lives depend on the knowledge and experience that my decisions when we are deployed. When you you don't stay on top of your craft you make mistakes and in our profession those mistakes can be be the deciding factor of if you go home with everyone or not.

Good question, and the answer is the same for a week as it is for my military career. ZERO.

I do my MOS about 1 or 2 days a year, but I do SNCO duties every weekend. Though may find that as you go up in ranks, especially in reserves, your duties get more and more broad.