Posted on Jun 10, 2022
Is an Army career outside of Rangers or SF, really just being a professional janitor?
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I have always wanted to enlist in the Army but always see on forums and various things like that saying unless you are doing SF of some sort you are stuck essentially being a professional janitor or maintenance is there any truth to this I try to keep in mind their MOS selection when it's specified but as I am enlisting as a 68w would this be something I should be concerned about.??
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I'm sorry, what was that again? Everything outside SF is professional janitorial work? That's a HUGE NEGATIVE. I hold 3 MOSs. I was a medic in a line unit and at a major army hospital. I was also a combat engineer, getting paid sick money to blow stuff up. Now I'm preventive medicine where I do health inspections, collecting water, collecting dirt, collecting air....and collecting bugs. I sure as hell ain't doing any janitorial work. Sounds like whoever says this either didn't serve or were stuck doing some menial job because they flunked out of the hooah hooah schools. Damn stupid people talking out of their ass.
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I cleaned latrines, buffed hallways, polished baseboards and raked sand as an E4 in Ranger BN, and I cleaned latrines, buffed floors and mowed the parade field with a push mower as in E7, alongside E8s and O3s, in SF.
You get to do your real job a a lot, too.
But you'd be hard pressed to find a unit that contracts out janitorial and gardening services, good luck with that.
You get to do your real job a a lot, too.
But you'd be hard pressed to find a unit that contracts out janitorial and gardening services, good luck with that.
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MAJ Ken Landgren
I was in the 160th for 1 year. I did one short detail. It was nice and we focused on our jobs. I joke aviation is for the pretty boys because we don’t want to stress the people who work on and fly those magnificent birds.
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I was a professional janitor in this. My janitorial station weighed 70 tons, had a 1500 jet engine, could travel in excess of 45 MPH if the governors were tricked out, close to 50 large 120 mm main gun rounds, tens of thousands of 7.62 mm and 50 caliber rounds, could fire accurately while moving on a moving target because of the ballistic computer, it could hit a target 2.5 miles away in 2.5 seconds. It also had a dust-pan, broom, mop, and a vacuum cleaner. I had 4 of these. My platoon could engage close to 150 enemy vehicular targets in one battle. What other questions do you have? Perhaps you will ask why we don't have a buffer in my janitorial stations?
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MAJ Ken Landgren
I was fortunate to ride in these, but by your criteria they are not janitorial stations. Seriously how old are you?
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