What are you opinions on Chaplain Assistants getting "Special Treatment" from their units?

When I was at the Overseas Replacement Station at Ft. Dix, waiting to go to Germany, the Publications and Training Aids Center outside of Frankfurt needed 20 warm bodies to help with the move into their brand new facility, and I was one of the select few whose orders were changed and were flown into Rhine Main just in time for the move to be made a year later. (Hurry up and wait much?) It turns out one of us was a Chaplain's Assistant.
Well there was no Chaplain to assist, so he was just put to work like the rest of us.

I was an Artillery mechanic. We never had to do CQ, post cleanup, chow hall or other stupid shit like that. That is what Gun Bunnys are for. The trade off was we had to be there if a gun was down and fix it whether it was the weekend or 24:00 hours. So while the Gun Bunnys were off in Savannah on Friday night banging some college chick and getting drunk, we often were in the motor pool trying to figure out what the hell was wrong with this Paladin. I don't know what a Chaplain's assistant does. He doesn't take care of pacing items like I did, but there has to be some reason for it. Maybe he has to pull guard on the Holy Water.

Actually I agree with this because they have to be on call for matters relating to chapel administration. The chapel never closes, so they still work many holidays that you have off as "any other soldier." Consider that military police, medical specialists, and many other groups of soldiers who work in 24/7 type jobs also get similar "special treatment" and are exempt from duty rosters, except within their own sections as needed. That is just the way it is. Nothing in life is fair, but the Army does try to be somewhat equitable to give personal time somewhere to all soldiers regardless of specialty.

Don't we all have more important things to do for our troops than rag on the Chaplain's Assistant? I know soldiers bitch from time to time---actually, most of the time---but guys---there are more important things to look to.

Should be treated as others. In the Navy they have a Chaplain Corps. They have a chief and have to do all the work other Sailors are expected to do.

I was Supply, People always said we didn't do anything, but when it came to Hey go do this, they always came to us first. Just because YOU don't see us doing something doesn't mean we don't do anything.

I wouldn't Special Treatment it is part of the MOS just as in the food service. Just picked the right MOS

really ?

When I was in the Army, I was military intelligence. The fact of the matter is that what we had weren't so much privileges as they were compensation for the hours that we would sometimes have to work. I imagine it is the same way with Chaplin's assistants.

If they weren't already on-call, why not pull duties?