Posted on Aug 6, 2020
Other than Special Forces and Rangers, what are some other “high speed” and high specialty jobs in the Army?
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As a Medic I had the opportunity to do different things that some other MOS's didn't get to. As far as "High Speed" though, don't know if I ever was. lol
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Well, guess what? Every U.S. Army specialty, or MOS, is high speed; > 150! They have an important function in the great scheme of things.
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If you want to be challenged and if you are smart enough then apply for EOD school and training. Back in the day, and I am an old fart, only about 40% made the cut and won their badge. It has to be even tougher today. What I really enjoyed was the camaraderie, the professionalism and that everyday was an adventure. You have to have confidence in yourself to do the job . When you are downrange you don't have a lot of company. This will carry over into the rest of your life - you learn to make decisions very deliberately without a lot of "drama".
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35N. language qualified and Airborne if you really want to be in swimming in a small pool of soldiers
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High “specialty”? If you can find a job that takes more civilian acquired training than Army Band, I’d like to know. Physician is the only one I can think of. Now, “high speed”? As in “hooah” jobs...yeah, probably not Army Band.
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What about high speed units with combat support as an option? I was Signal Corps, so I will speak to High speed Signal organizations. There is:
- Joint Communications Support Element (JCSE), headquartered at MacDill AFB, Florida. The JCSE is a Brigade sized joint signal organization with Army, Navy, Marines, and Air Force. The JCSE deploys worldwide supporting almost everything that is Joint and doesn’t have its own indigenous communications capability. This includes Joint Task Forces (JTFs), Joint Special Operations Task Forces (JSOTFs), and odd international missions. Many of these folks are Airborne and jump in with their Spec Ops customers.
- Joint Communications Unit (JCU), headquartered at Fort Bragg, NC. The JCU is Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines, all Airborne in direct support of Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), aka Delta.
- 112 Signal Battalion (SF), headquartered at Fort Bragg, NC. The 112th is an Army Signal Battalion that supports deployments of the 3rd, 5th, 7th, 10th, etc. Special Forces.
There are more of these high speed Signal units that I don’t know about, since I have been away so long. There are also loads of other focused high speed units, such as EOD.
Glory can be earned in high speed organizations as well.
- Joint Communications Support Element (JCSE), headquartered at MacDill AFB, Florida. The JCSE is a Brigade sized joint signal organization with Army, Navy, Marines, and Air Force. The JCSE deploys worldwide supporting almost everything that is Joint and doesn’t have its own indigenous communications capability. This includes Joint Task Forces (JTFs), Joint Special Operations Task Forces (JSOTFs), and odd international missions. Many of these folks are Airborne and jump in with their Spec Ops customers.
- Joint Communications Unit (JCU), headquartered at Fort Bragg, NC. The JCU is Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines, all Airborne in direct support of Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), aka Delta.
- 112 Signal Battalion (SF), headquartered at Fort Bragg, NC. The 112th is an Army Signal Battalion that supports deployments of the 3rd, 5th, 7th, 10th, etc. Special Forces.
There are more of these high speed Signal units that I don’t know about, since I have been away so long. There are also loads of other focused high speed units, such as EOD.
Glory can be earned in high speed organizations as well.
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