What are your opinions on 19D (Cavalry Scout)?

As many others have said, being a Scout is being a jack of all trades. Infantry often gives Scouts a hard time due to the fact that we do all the things they wish they did. However I find that the Scout experience is highly dependent on whether your high level leadership understands your capabilities. More than one command has needed training about Scouts when they started treating us like Infantry. Which makes for bored and irritated 19D's. My last NTC rotation was a perfect example of this. The powers that be didn't know what to do with us. So our green to gold Lt convinced them to let us coordinate our own missions. However that also meant our intel wasn't making it up the chain. When the final day's "attack on a defensive position" was over my Sergeant and I found ourselves between a General and Coronel trying to answer why our maps where full of coordinates they didn't have. They had parked near our OP and were surprised when we popped up after the "game over" had been called. Just to note our battalion had it's backside kicked in that mission.

We are proud.

I work with 19Ds all the time - they provide me with information that I can then use as intelligence to aid operations. They're essential to my mission completion.

It is an unnecessary MOS and their mission and positions can be filled by infantryman.

Was a Scout from 82 to 91. Did time on 113's, Bradley's, and even Blue's (Air Cav).... Blue's Platoons in the old Air Cav disappeared in the latter 80s....

Scouts LEAD THE WAY.

As a 19D you need to be flexible abd ready to give it everythng you have. Scouts have to be proficient in several different specialties to be able to accomplsh the different types of missions they can be expected to accomplish. ANything frommanninga forward abserver post to classifying roads and bridges for the rest of the devision to follow or reporting on enemy movements while remaining undetecected themselves. The Mission of the 19D encompasses many facets of military operations and is a very challenging choice of carrer choices.

CavDad, a life-long tree-hugging civilian, loves his 19Deltas, and was first honored to rub shoulders with them at Ft. Benning's OSUT four years ago. It was however immediately following a 3rd Cav redeployment to Ft. Hood and an informal two-week embed with the Troopers that CavDad came to a fuller and deeper appreciation of both Cav tradition and how these modern-day warriors serve as the commander's "eyes and ears" in shaping the battle space. Then later at Ft. Drum, CavDad was fascinated to observe how his 1-89 19D's work with the 11Bravos, and as an outsider looking in, how the seemingly brutal ribbing with and from the "blue cords" actually a sign of the deep mutual professional respect shared by these brothers in arms. Truly One Team One Fight. CavDad now has love for his Infantrymen, too. CavDad honored, privileged, and most grateful to be given these opportunities for such intimate personal and professional access to these Troopers and their "Queen of Battle" counterparts. Every civilian should have the some opportunity. Then they would know, like CavDad, why we civilians sleep so soundly in our beds each night as they stand "READY NOW". Scouts Out!

I loved bein a cab scout. I drove Bradleys mostly but I did other stuff 2. If I hadn't been a 19d I woulda jumped and been 11b. I'm very proud of my spurs. I earned my spurs and no 1 can take them away.