What is the difference between 11B and 19D?

as my infantry brothers misconstrue the RECON job I am FORCED to remind them all, we as scouts do THEIR job as part of ours on a regular basis, but having DEALT with a HORRIBLE infantry E7 NCO in Desert Storm THEY struggle with recon.
Cav is the heavy maneuvering arm of America's military ,WE pick the fight then call the afore mentioned colleagues to clean it up while we look for more...depending on the TYPE of conflict
OH yes and all the collective bastards don't let scouts in sniper school,at a guess because we'll smoke them ...I CAN'T say now.

Why carry your weapon into battle when your weapon can carry you? :)

Enjoying the comments from both sides (one of those 'you had to be there' situations) but not sure if any of them except SMSgt Ian Short's comment will give you any useful information.
Damn shame it was an Air Force Sergeant's comment that gave you the best answer for a question about the Army.

19Ds find where the enemy is. 11Bs kill the enemy. Its that simple.

Having been a medic in both a scout platoon in an armor BN and a infantry company, the biggest trouble scouts get into is direct action. The best scouts I ever worked with were awesome at being unseen and quietly calling in 120mm mortar fire. Blue cords have their role, kill stuff. Both branches are fine and wish they were as cool a a Combat Medic, spent my fair share putting IVs in to hung over 11Bs and 19D.

Go 11B if you want to keep your career options open in the infantry, cavalry scout is kind of a black hole from what my army buddies have told me

11B Fights, Cavs recon and break contract and reports to 11b where the fight is.

19Ds have functioning brains and 11Bs think that they are more manly wearing baby blue. Pretty simple.

Stetson and spurs..nuff said..

BA11S

Same team, I never worked in my mos. I was a mechanic getting shot at. Y'all wanna rock paper scissors about who did what. Who's a real soldier ? The soldier next to you and the only one that matters.

Go light Infantry or airborne infantry. Have to clean and maintain less equipment. My Drill Sergeant partner was a Cav Scout. Great guy smart, Bradley Mastergunner. Used to run around yelling out Bradley Fighting Vehicle fire commands all the time. Probably more opportunities for promotion and schools in the Infantry. But I got out in 2003. So my advice is old.

Overlooking all the bravado and adolescent rivalry between the branches; 19D's are the Eyes and Ears the a BN cannot function with out, they are not merely "observers" the Delta has the ability to engage enemy forces with massive indirect fires. Being 1/10 the size of an Infantry BN they rely on stealth to reach thier objectives.

By design if the 19D is the Eyes and the Ears; the 11B is the Sword. There mission is to take and hold ground, overwhelming the enemy when and where they least expect it. How are they able to accomplish that? But using the information provided back to the BN S2, by the 19D.

There will always be rivalry, but like Step-brothers, they need each other to succeed.

All I did was walk a perimeter with a dog. Y'all have strange codes,dogs just wanted to investigate or chew up things or people. AF,had at that time, not so much time to name each operation.

11b's don't eat their horses.

Go on sand hill as an 11X and your Drill Sergeant has a real hilarious answer to that question

19d is a scout mos. 11bravo is light weapons infantry

Once upon a time, before the Army in its infinite wisdom decided it had too many MOS, there were shades of gray. IIRC, the were 5-6 11 series MOS, two of which, 11M, Mechanized Infantryman, and 11H, Anti-Armor Infantryman, were very much like a cav scout... the former were the M2 Bradley (and M113 before that) crewmen, while the latter were assigned in 4-5 man teams in a TOW equipped vehicle. When the Great MOS Purges of the Post Gulf Era occurred, the former was absorbed into 11B, while the members of the latter were absorbed into 19D

Infantry kick doors, infantry dig holes, infantry ruck, infantry drive, infantry shoot. Infantry smash everything in a room with forehead. Infantry do everything.
Cav scouts recon; infantry scouts do it better.