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I will be PCS to Ft Benning in January. Currently a SPC(E4), I was told it’s best to go to your next duty station (P) in this case Benning for me. What does a 19D do at TRADOC installations?
Ft. Benning, GA
Cavalry Scout (19D)
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MAJ Ronnie Reams most schools on Benning fall under TRADOC. 194th has majority of the CAV troops now. Its mostly basic training for 19D.
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199th handles OCS, IBOLC and I believe ABOLC. 198th and 197th are Infantry Training Brigades responsible for OSUT, they also each have cadre for various ranges. No idea about 196th, never heard of it.MAJ Ronnie Reams
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Very likely just cadre. Or their could be a random unit on post who's job is to support the training units.
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Do you have a paragraph and line number? Unit?
When I was a 19D I came across some random assignments scattered throughout the Army (like 1 19D3O at Ft Leonard Wood - no clue), this seems to be like that. Yes instructors are E6, Drills are 5/6 but you'd know if it was Drill. It may be as a training support Soldier. Sort of behind the scenes to help with ranges, inventory, vehicles (probably vehicles!) to take some work off the instructors.
It may be a crap job. You may be having long days and 0 credit for your work. Take Benning for what it's worth!!! Fight to go to Advanced Situational Awareness and Army Recon Course, then RSLC once you make 5, this way when you leave Benning to take over a Team at the next station you are still on top of the game.
When I was a 19D I came across some random assignments scattered throughout the Army (like 1 19D3O at Ft Leonard Wood - no clue), this seems to be like that. Yes instructors are E6, Drills are 5/6 but you'd know if it was Drill. It may be as a training support Soldier. Sort of behind the scenes to help with ranges, inventory, vehicles (probably vehicles!) to take some work off the instructors.
It may be a crap job. You may be having long days and 0 credit for your work. Take Benning for what it's worth!!! Fight to go to Advanced Situational Awareness and Army Recon Course, then RSLC once you make 5, this way when you leave Benning to take over a Team at the next station you are still on top of the game.
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I’ll receive my orders from my S1 with all those details when I get back from post deployment leave.
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SPC (Join to see) - According to FMSWeb W1DX is the Armor school (go figure) The P is 2-15 Cav, which is OSUT. There is no C, just 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 which looks to be the individual training Troops. Within the MTOE for all of 2-15 I didn't see a single 19D1O, just a few 19D2O who are the training rooms NCOs. You can always call the S1 at 2-15 Cav and ask.
Now in a different Squadron (1-16), if the UIC is a C instead of a P, there are tons of spots for 19D1O, as drivers. You'd be driving soon to be LTs around and being their Scout as they learn how to TC and "control" a Scout Platoon (even though we know its the Section Sgts who do that!)
Now in a different Squadron (1-16), if the UIC is a C instead of a P, there are tons of spots for 19D1O, as drivers. You'd be driving soon to be LTs around and being their Scout as they learn how to TC and "control" a Scout Platoon (even though we know its the Section Sgts who do that!)
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CW2 (Join to see) - Also, like any orders, they only really assign you to the BDE level command (the Armor School), and their S-1 will put you wherever they need you. True pinpoint assignments are only really for E7 and up or special assignments. You could get something saying "You're on orders to be a 19D at RSLC" and when you sign in the Armor school goes "OK, welcome to 2-16 CAV, be nice to the Lieutenants."
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You will more than likely be a support element. Typically, E4's are not instructors. So Hopefully, you're not stuck in 1-16Cav. 5/15 is the lesser of the two evils. Stay in shape, take some classes and PCS when your time is up. Soldiers get in trouble at TRADOC for some reason. I guess its because they're not in a "real" combat unit. Then again Soldiers get in trouble there too.
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I was an E4 in 5-15. It’s cool but sucks at the same time. It’s totally changed since I was there, it’s committee based now. Long story short, you’ll probably run errands. The cool part of it is you’ll be forced to go to schools. With budgets being constricted in the big army, they won’t have money to send anyone to schools. So you’ll get pulled to maintain the schools budget allotments. Hope this helps.
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Ft. Benning is now the Maneuver Center of Excellence, with Basic and Leadership schools for Infantry and Armor. You will probably be in a support position for trainees or leadership school attendees.
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Our permanent party Junior Enlisted personnel at 198th performed a great deal of the day to day Brigade HHC Operations. We had R&U details that performed grounds maintenance, range cadre that maintained and operated ranges for trainees, vehicle crews that performed 10 level maintenance on vehicles. As SFC Boyd said: you really won’t know until you report. The UIC you are reporting to can give you a general idea of which unit is expecting you. Have you received any sort of correspondence from your sponsor?
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Not yet still waiting on the sponsor, I may just have to wait till my levy brief after leave with all that information on my orders
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Not yet, I’ll get all of that information from my S-1 when I get back from post deployment leave.
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SPC (Join to see) be sure to do so. Once you have a pinpoint unit, shouldn't be too hard to figure out what you'll be doing. But I'd venture a guess that you'll do part of the schoolhouse cadre in some fashion.
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Just a wild guess here, but I suspect it will have something to do with making new 19Ds...
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1LT William Clardy
Did I say anything about instructing? I'm betting those staff sergeants aren't the ones doing for-real PMCS on any vehicles tactical vehicles needed for training.
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