Posted on Feb 29, 2016
I was told that you aren't a real infantryman unless you went to basic training at Fort Benning. What are your opinions on this?
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Funny I heard you couldn't be infantry unless you had been with another dude! Just saying that is what I heard over at the MP barracks.
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Well being that Fort Benning, to some people, was called Home of The Infantry I'm not sure of any other place that you could earn your blue cord in today's Army. If you do not own or were never given said cord through military graduation of the 11 Series MOS then yes you are not an Infantrymen..... Not even a little.
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All the posts are confusing me. If your in the Army, Ft Benning is where you would train to be an Infantryman, MOS 11B or 11C. That is the only way to become an Infantryman in the Army. Other branches of military might be different and I can't speak on those matters. But unless you are given a PMOS of 11B, 11C, or 11A, you are not Infantry.
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SGT Jerrold Pesz
Ft. Benning might be the only place now but it sure as hell wasn't in earlier times. In the mid to late sixties just about everywhere had basic and infantry AIT. Also different there was no combined basic and AIT and you didn't get awarded anything when you finished infantry AIT. Upon graduation from AIT most went either to OCS, the NCO Academy, jump school or straight to Vietnam. Mostly the latter. The standard plan for the tens of thousands drafted each month was basic, leave, AIT, leave, Vietnam for a year and then back home to process out or get buried.. Standard rack for those was Good Conduct Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal and Vietnam Campaign Ribbon. CIB if you were infantry. PCS and ETS got you a handshake if you were lucky. The only thing that most of them wanted was to get the hell out of the army and go home. Very few had any interest in reenlisting. Even most of the officers that I served with hit the road the day that their obligation was up. The world changed for the military when Vietnam ended and the all volunteer army came into being.
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That is just stupid I went to Fort Benning and I am a 25 Bravo which is an information technology specialist I think that all that matters is the training you recieve
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Basic training is taught the same to all recruits. Now AIT is where you are taught whatever your MOS is,most if not all 11Bs are taught their job in Ft. Benning. As a Drill Sgt I was in Ft. Jackson and a couple of 11Bs came there for basic but left for AIT to Ft. Benning. So from my experience all 11Bs are taught trained at Ft. Benning.
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It's the "Old way". Fort Benning is home of the Infantry, or atleast it was before it was renamed in 2010 or 2011 to Maneuver Center of Excellence. If your an 11B your an 11B
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I'm not infantry. I have served and supported many combat arms units. Learned valuable infantry tactics that most likely kept me alive we I was under fire. I didn't kick in doors and conduct searches. I did return fire a few times and I watched a couple of bad guys drop on the other ends of my iron sights, but I'm not/never considered my infantry. However, make no mistake my little pissed off trooper, WE are no less combat veterans. Thank you for the killer job but get get over yourself. FM Rommel once said: "the battle is decided and fought by the Quartermaster before the first gun is ever fired".
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SGT Robert Cupp
I think you missed the fact that this is a question being asked, not a statement. I am not giving my own opinion on this subject.
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MSG Scott McBride
SGT Robert Cupp - I answered the question. And added a comment. Take it how you like.
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I went to basic at Ft. Jackson and the infantry AIT at north Fort Lewis. Most of C 2/47 company had been dispersed. We went through AIT and then stayed. All of the leadership roles were already there when we arrived.
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