What are the pros and cons of the Reserve Psyop (338th) or CA (360th) units at Fort Jackson?

2019-09-17T12:47:32-04:00

Funding, schools, mission, regional alignment, promotions, etc.

Response by SGM Bill Frazer made Sep 17 at 2019 1:13 PM

2019-09-17T13:13:58-04:00

Why in the hell don't you google Pysop operations and Civil Affairs. There is a difference, and yet they often work together. As for advancement, you will have to check out the rank structure - it is a small community and much of it is in the Reserves.

Response by SSG Steven Chirco made Sep 17 at 2019 1:48 PM

2019-09-17T13:48:46-04:00

Pros are you will never have to worry about being short of training days at end of fiscal year. You will get to do a lot of short missions, ie state department missions. You will get you deploy a lot if you want to. You can choose from a variety of real world missions.
Cons you will never have to worry about being short of training days at end of fiscal year. You will get to do a lot of short missions, ie state department missions. You will get you deploy a lot if you want to. You can choose from a variety of real world missions.
Basically what I’m saying is it’s all what you make of it. I deployed more as a 37F in the reserves than a lot of my buddies who stayed active duty when I got out originally. The majority of PSYOP strength is in the reserve component, so if you decide to go that route realize you will be utilized a lot. And that one weekend a month and two weeks a summer shit not so true for us, we are gone a lot more.

Response by SPC Greg Gobert made Sep 17 at 2019 2:21 PM

2019-09-17T14:21:27-04:00

I would like to join a unit that has the funding to allow me the chance to attend training/ schools (AB, AA, DLI, SOCM, etc)

Response by SFC Private RallyPoint Member made Sep 27 at 2019 10:26 PM

2019-09-27T22:26:32-04:00

I can't speak for FT Jackson or directly about 37 or 38 series as I am the Senior Medical NCO for a Reserve CA unit in Florida for the past 5 years. What I can say is that if you are planning on going CA we as a whole fall under USACPOC not SOCOM in the Reserves. We are a conventional force that uses our civil specialities more then tactical. Doesn't mean you can't support a SOF unit but usually that will fall in the 95th.

As someone entertaining the Reserves from AD you get assigned to a Unit and eventually they will send you to school. You do not go through the pipeline at Bragg you end up going to a condensed course at 1 of a couple of places. ( Knox or Hunter Liggett not sure where else) no language school no Airborne unless you go to one of the actual Airborne units. You are authorized to take the DLAB and if you score high enough you can try to go to DLI in California. You get language pay based on your DLPT score. CA deploys as a 4 person teams thought-out the world.

PSYOP or MISO does there own thing.

Hope that helps with a general understanding.