Is becoming an AIT Platoon Sergeant a good career progression move?

SFC Demond Thomas your response made me laugh. I will soon become a PSG for AIT students and will have to have some team building exercises with other NCOs to ensure we work together to get tasks completed

You will get tasks completed. But your battles will have their OWN classes. We really worked together on duty though. Top would make the duty roster and we had the freedom to change it up to 3 days after he put it out. We were great with swapping duties due to appointments and graduations of the classes. I would say learn the "paperwork" side as fast as you can. Because even though it isnt hard, its just alot when you are dealing with 100 Soldiers..lol I did have a blast though. Nothing like running into your old privates. One is in my current unit. She was in my very first class. Alot of them are already SGTs now. its pretty cool when you think about it.

It varies I guess, I have four years as a PSG, 2 of those over the pond, 3 years of recruiting, and 1 as a 1SG and still got picked up (this monday in fact), but Im looking forward to the position. Anything that will set me aside from my peers.

Being an AITPSG is a great career move. If you are a SSG you will most likely get promoted to SFC and SFC will get promoted to MSG. It is a very demanding job. SFC Dalen this position was not design for NCO's that could not get Drill Sergeant. Unless you have been a AITPSG you can only speculate on what the job is. A AITPSG's job is to reinforce what the Drill Sergeant has instilled in the recruit once entering BCT. Whether it's WTBD or basic greeting of the day or basic D&C. They also manage a platoon of 70-200 Soldiers without having SSG's and SGT's as squad leader or team leaders. You conduct PRT with them to get them from 50 to 60 on the APFT while dealing with them having freedom to eat whatever they want. You march them to school, hold study hall with them if they are having trouble in school. You also have to get them to appointments whether it's medical, dental, finance,mental health or security this is all during school and you don't have the luxury of shipping them to a another company. BCT is standardize AIT is not. You have to take them through the chapter process request their orders amongst other things. Long story short it prepares you to be a 1SG. While most Drill Sergeants are respected by the hat and badge the AITPSG has to earn their respect by the way they conduct themselves. The don't have the intimidation factor so they rely on their experience to mentor the Soldiers. I did 10 years on Bragg before I became a AITPSG and I thought I was ready. I became a better leader because of this duty. We need to spread the word out to the Army that this job is as noble and important as a Drill Sergeant as well as a great career move.

If they were to open up the oportunities of becomiing an AIT Platoon Sergeant to AGR soldiers I would be one of the first to apply. As an AGR, many times we are limited to just doing our daily duties and only get to mentor Junior Soldiers one weekend a minth if we have any Junior Soldiers at all. I would love to have that opportunity.

SFC (Join to see) - There is a unit on Bragg that have AGR AITPSGs

I did not intend to downgrade the position by no means. I have had peers do this assignment and that is how they explained it to me. I do respect them and the job they are set forth to do. SFC Campoverde and I were Platoon Sergeants together and I was telling him the information given to me by peers. That was it. Thank you all for the comments and enlightening me.