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

In my experience, it seemed that cooks and maintenance sections had more irregular hours than 'typical' soldiers. sometimes the mission demands exempted them from things like staff duty and PT with the unit. I say, let the company commander make the call on this one.

Don’t know their timeline? Working weekends? Try serving in an infantry unit

Pvt Leavitt, not in a peacetime environment. PFC Beggs, that was not terribly professional. SGT Castro, his CO is not God, he is just the representative thereof. SGM Frazer is spot on.

Chaplaincy is a specialized position with it's own duties and priorities and is therefore exempt from such duties.

We medics have also been put in the same light. They see us sitting in our ambulances out on the range. We do it because we have to be somewhere we can be found. It used be I could help in the tower. It was a good spot, they know where I am, and is the first to be notified anyways. A lot of range controls are not allowing that anymore. I sit there because I have to. They don't realize I spent half the night with Private Snuffy because he came back so drunk he's going to choke on his own puke. So I can understand where the CAs are coming from.

Becasue some people think the best way to NOT focus on their job is to worry about what everyone else is doing.

haters gonna hate..... I can't even SPELL Chaplain....let alone 'assist' one..........LAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWD have Mercy!!!!! i'd be struck by lightening!!! haahaa! Cheers, all you warriors.

My whole time in the Army I have always asked that haha

Best answer ever!

SGT Carl Blas - I am currently working at the Wisconsin Natl Guard Military Academy mess hall. They use styrofoam plates in the field. Not sure what they thought was wrong with the old tin mess kits, they created minimal trash & you could eat standing up.

Styrofoam, I guess it as a convenience, but the reusable like the mess kit will save alot of money, but then again, The Government it not in the business of saving money, but spending money.
I was told that when working in the Naval ship repair facility, they had a budget, and they were going to spend it no matter what, even adding work just to spend it.
And that's why we today on Guam, don't have a Naval ship repair facility, it got to expensive was the excuse and told. And, the jobs and ship repairs went to Japan, which is more expensive. Lol

Stand up and eat for the infantry in the 70's was the norm, even when walking. What happens when you're getting shot at, tell the enemy, "Stop shooting, we're eating". Lol

Same for me.

I have mad respect for the cooks. Especially after seeing them leave for work at 03:00.

Oh, great, Chief, let the cat outta the bag... I can see a bump in applications for CI/AI starting tomorrow, first thing. Then, when they find out there's a tactical component that goes along with that clothing allowance, they'll change their minds. :LOL:

"None of you are serving beyond your initial contract for any reason than you chose to."

That's not exactly accurate; certainly wasn't accurate in Iraq or Afghanistan, and let's not forget all those poor souls who were stop-loss'd....

PFC Jesse V., You are a bit mistaken and reading what you'd like into my words. While I don't like the "stop loss" policy, it didn't change what I said. My words, which you quoted are "None of you are serving beyond your initial contract for any reason other than you choose to." A person who is prevented from ETS by a stop loss is so serving their agreed upon contact. The date of separation may have changed, but unless you sign a new contract (reenlist), you are still under contractual obligations you agreed to.

The enlistment contract has language to legally extend or decrease your time served as part of that contact. If you don't like that, don't enlist, don't reenlist.

Don't like your job, pick a new one. No out calls for your job, drop a Warrant Officer or OCS application. Not ready for those, go EOD, CID, CI, SFAS which can all take you from any job regardless of out call. Still can't handle those choices, get out. Just don't complain about the consequences of your adult decisions or compare them to the consequences of someone else's decisions.

CW3 (Join to see) - Reading what I'd like? I think you're projecting there, as your attitude and response seems to be badgering and over-critical. Still, my words stand, as stop-loss forces one to go beyond their initial contract. The "language to legally extend" did not exist during the time of the second Iraq war and our incursions into Afghanistan, of which I was referring to; the Army and the military at large added that in later.

"Still can't handle those choices, get out. Just don't complain about the consequences of your adult decisions or compare them to the consequences of someone else's decisions."

This was rude and unnecessary, but it's not surprising to hear air-headed opinions from an officer, especially one in a cushy place like Hawaii. You should apologize to everyone in the second Iraq war who were stop-lossed before the language to justify it existed, but that would require a measure of humility you don't seem to have. This conversation is over, good day, sir.

That, and much more is the typical duties of every chaplain assistant. Some days, I wondered if I should have just signed up as a military intel analyst, or maybe an interrogator....I certainly qualified for any job I wanted, but God called me to the chaplaincy, so I went there....

People just need to stay in their lane and mind their own damn business.

Sergeant Major: It is important to note that time off is determined by his or her Chaplain. If I have a slacker assistant, they probably aren't getting much by way of comp time. If they are hard charging, hard working, assistants, they're getting the comp time they deserve.

Because not just anyone could do what a Chaplain's Assistant does. It's much easier to get mad. Just like children do.

Well, I've seen garbage chaplain assistants and excellent ones. The garbage ones tend to be non-Christian...

This was what I figured when I asked for the complete story. Due to the nature of their MOS, I bet they are pulling more hours than most of the others.

What units were you assigned to SPC Crabb? I was a CA during that time too.

Exactly. Some soldiers don't pull the same duties as "regular soldiers" because they are on another whole group of rosters for "special duties" that "regular soldiers" do not have to bother with.

I do believe we all where on call.

Thank you, Major.

Like when someone commits suicide at 2am. Or a wife kills a soldier kid while on duty. Our chaplain would come get you if you called and said you had to much to drink because he did not want the unit to get flagged for dui trouble. Also our chaplain and assist were head of troop morale and and all these functions to organize to include wife deployment contact roosters, family activities on non duty hours and weekends. Also on holiday like Xmas and Easter who was their with troops with no family Chaplin and Assistance.