Posted on Oct 1, 2018
Why do people consider being a "Group Baby" a bad thing?
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I don't get it. I've served in 2 conventional units (Infantry and chemical) and 1 SOF, and reenlisted to be in another SOF unit in FL. I've read it on here, and have heard it from other people's mouths throughout my time in group, people bashing on "Group Babies". Its what they call people who insist in staying in a SOCOM/SOF unit.
Why is this a bad thing? To be honest, SOCOM actually does meaningful work on an active basis. During my time in a chem and infantry unit, I did NOTHING to VERY LITTLE Army stuff, unless you cant do motor pool sweeping and layouts a hooah thing. I'm not trying to be an ass hat when I say this, but its been true for me so far. In SOF, I actually do my job, if not more. Plus I'm ALWAYS at school or TDY or deployed. Do people think SOF just sits on their butt all day? Sure we get more 4 days and relaxed regs, but it's deserved. Is it so bad I wish to actually do bad ass cool Army work?
Plus people say its hard to advance in your career if you stay a "Group Baby", but honestly at the end of the day if I'm doing this cool stuff that most people will never do in their career, and has actual purpose, its good enough for me. Sorry, but being in a conventional unit that does inventories every other day and work until 1900 for no reason just doesn't seem productive to me. Again, I'm not trying to sound like a jerk, I'm just trying to understand the reasoning behind people who hate on this.
Why is this a bad thing? To be honest, SOCOM actually does meaningful work on an active basis. During my time in a chem and infantry unit, I did NOTHING to VERY LITTLE Army stuff, unless you cant do motor pool sweeping and layouts a hooah thing. I'm not trying to be an ass hat when I say this, but its been true for me so far. In SOF, I actually do my job, if not more. Plus I'm ALWAYS at school or TDY or deployed. Do people think SOF just sits on their butt all day? Sure we get more 4 days and relaxed regs, but it's deserved. Is it so bad I wish to actually do bad ass cool Army work?
Plus people say its hard to advance in your career if you stay a "Group Baby", but honestly at the end of the day if I'm doing this cool stuff that most people will never do in their career, and has actual purpose, its good enough for me. Sorry, but being in a conventional unit that does inventories every other day and work until 1900 for no reason just doesn't seem productive to me. Again, I'm not trying to sound like a jerk, I'm just trying to understand the reasoning behind people who hate on this.
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Tell them to suck it...they are jealous or they can’t get into one themselves. RLTW
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There's nothing wrong with it. I say unless u r trying to make 7. Being in group or any Special operations unit is better than conventional any day. My only draw back is this. I don't support sm coming straight out of ait and getting this as your first assignment. It destroys their discipline... they believe that the rest of the army acts in a similar fashion.
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If it works for you it works. Don’t buy in to the haters gonna hate nonsense though. They may be jealous they may not be it doesn’t matter. You may excel in Group if SOF units but at some point during your career you have to think about broadening yourself, your skills, knowledge base, and qualifications. Staying in one single type of unit does not afford that opportunity. For some maybe, but not everyone. If the Army is your career for life, think about the bigger picture.
Doing the cool guy shit is great for a minute but eventually think of passing your experience on to the next generation
Doing the cool guy shit is great for a minute but eventually think of passing your experience on to the next generation
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BullSHit- I was on Jump status for 21+ yrs out of 22.5- spent 15 years in the 325 AIR.
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Navy has same issue, we have special Mission sets or jobs that take sailors outside of their normal MOS, and some cases they stay with in that world. The big two are NSW (SEAL'S and SWCC) and NECC (Navy Expediatnary Combat Command) Sailors that can go Blue Navy sometimes stay in Green or Brown side, because of NEC's they earn for Green side. They can go from a Sea special unit or Command to a Shore and will stay there for ever. Then you have what we call "Group" and that is DEVGRU or as many people call them SEAL team Six and they almost never come back because of training and money involved with them being with "Group" I stay there
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Sorry let me correct before Nvay guys say something we have rates not MOS, but same thing. I work with Joint Commands that's why I don't have a probelm with using MOS in place of rate.
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