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"You'll never know until you try it." No matter how much I encourage you to look into other mos's you'll be too optimistic that infantry is the right career for you. Guilty with everyone else. Honestly, I can guarantee infantry will not be what you’re looking for in the Army. In my company of 120+ soldiers only two soldiers have openly expressed whole heartily loving their careers in 11B. But then you have to know their childhood backgrounds to understand why the Army is providing a better future for them to envision leaving for a better life. For the rest it’s a countdown of days/months/years to ETS out. It’s sad; most hope to get more from the Army, just things you'll learn they can't provide.
First off let’s look into the Infantry. First you attend basic at Fort Benning GA. Challenging? If you’re in good shape, too easy. If you’re not even passing the simple basic pt standards, it may be mentally stressful. My experience from basic felt pre-school, extremely unorganized, surrounded by the most immature people on the planet. The absolute bare bones basics of a soldier (basic+ait=osut). Once you get stationed at your first duty station the training value greatly increases but still insanely unorganized. You may find yourself in a field problem doing something where you’re like this is a huge gap between basic and here. Degree of training value all depends on your Division/Unit/Leadership how well they'll prepare you for war. We are not all equal. I've trained with other divisions and experienced terrible joint operations due to bad leadership, poor communication, underfunded training, and low levels of physical fitness standards. The infantry is worse than bad is straight up retarded. Sure it sounds good having nothing to do all day when your state-side. But after staring at a brick wall in a hallway cleaning a weapon you cleaned 4 days ago in under an hour, over and over again for 8 hours because you have nothing scheduled for the week will make you a f*&ked up individual in the head. You have to be very optimistic in this job. Travel allot. Get away from the base. Garrison is the worst. If you’re looking for combat action I'm sorry to say that that part of the war is over and done with. We're in a phase now where our mission is to transfer all operations over to the Afghan National Army. We only provide rear security. They do all the missions. They do all the kicking down doors, patrolling, search and seizures. Our job now is solely sitting up in a guard tower watching for enemy movements/advances. Do you want to do that for a 9-month deployment? Is that worth a CIB and combat deployment patch? Maybe if you’re a cherry to infantry. If you’re looking for an adrenaline rush look into skydiving, scuba diving, snowboarding, and whitewater kayaking. Attend college; avoid the military. Rucking miles in the desert in welting heat, up/down mountainous terrain or through miles of thick wooded forests/swamps with 80lb+ pounds of gear on to engage a target takes all the fun out of it for a small rush.
Schools like Airborne School and Air Assault are so overhyped by individuals trying to impress the inexperienced. Shaking my head, these schools are incredibly easy and the instructors make them into a complete joke. They're easy chest candy. The only school that brings a real value back to your unit is Ranger School. You can easily tell the leadership of Ranger tabbed soldier from non-Ranger tabbed in their whole thinking process in conducting missions.
Infantry is not fun. Its 99% suck fest, boredom, and high leadership making mind-boggling decisions.
The pay is terrible. I'd say it’s one of the lowest paid in the military. Yes we all make the same on the pay tables but you have to factor in hours worked each day, time spent away from family, field time, and money spent on gear. We're paid salary but if you averaged your hourly rate in garrison (state-side) we average $5-6 per hour before taxes. Deployed in a combat zone and it drops to about $2hr. Or but wait your probably thinking well I get extra pay for being deployed in a combat zone. Well you'll want to factor in how much gear you had to pay for out of pocket because the Army's to cheap to provide you with gear them used to provide for you. Things like uniform allowances are practically useless. You do any field training and you will ruin all your ACU uniforms. God forbid you ruin a Multicam uniform. In the infantry you’re lucky to make a uniform last 3 months. Yes you'll eat that bonus up real quick. New boots, well that already exceeded your uniform allowance.
I'd recommend looking into the 35 and 68 series or even the 15. Get a job you can actually build a future with. If anything in the combat field choose to be a combat medic. They actually train with infantry companies' and earn allot of respect from their peers.
