Most if not all are headed to be QM, ADA, CM, OD, SC, MI officers.. only the best ie top of the class from West Point to ROTC programs get the most desirable branches and renegade knows what #1, #2 is Armor #3 FA. So sleep well knowing that.
Service Academies Produce Officers in Combat Arms MOS, - Hence MOST are Infantry, Armor, FA, Some will go to ADA and EN. VERY FEW West Pointers (Academy Grads) go support or CSS.
Oh yeah, Aviation and Medical Service Corps gets quite a few.
Great work ladies, Photo should have not been made public -
Imagine if al the White girls, Black guys, Indian, LAtinos, whatever else had their candid fun photos made, then the "White Guys" people would scream RACISM.
All Army are OD Green through and through.
I had alot of branch detailed young officers regret their decision and fight tooth and nail to stay combat arms when their 2 or 3 yrs were up and had to head to soft shell fields.
Only route for em to stay combat arms was SF selection.
About 75 - 80 % of em went that route insted of going to combat support fields.
My last 3 yrs was spent in Rotc.
I seen it all from top of the pack to the bottom of the pack.
Spent the summer of 07 at Ft lewis evaluating 6 2hr Sqd Stx lanes each day .
You wouldnt beleive some of the schit I seen.
From super trooper to rain man in charge of a squad.
If ya gave a cadet "U" rating unsatisfactory.
You was the one standing in front of 2 O4,s and 1 O5 explaining in detail why the cadet failed..
You was the fault the cadet failed , not his cadre at his college.....
It was like I had to educate the board each time on FM 7-8 and basic infantry battle drills in detail. It got old real fast and Icould tell they was hoping I would kow tow to them and " correct" my eval.
Cadets green card evaul right their with em ready for some pen magic if I would just " change my mind"......
Me and 2 other NCO evaluators went up before that schit that summer probably 5 - 7 times each.
None of us would change our reveiws.
We all had the same mindset and talked with each other alot.
The board would just extend the cadet 4 days and piggy back into another regiment and get a "S" evaul by a check the block evaluator to pass.
Amongst all us Walker evaluators that summer it was plainly obvious. That some walkers were candyman guys and others were trying to hold up a minimum standard at least.
The 3 of us eventually got assigned to other duties that summer
When the the STX board committee officers got tired of us holding cadets to the minimum standards.
The 2 O4,s were chem corps and Trans corps, the 05 was a reject infantry officer that made rank and was retiring.
I got "banished" for my last 3 weeks to NCOIC night shift of the TOC.
Whatever....
Smokes
Chubby treats
Internet access
56 bucks a day per diem
Didnt have ta walk 12 hrs a day
Write 6 evals on the fly.
And go justify my "U" evals in front of a couple of dipschits on the stx commitee.
Got back to Austin Peay
My LTC ( combat engineer) had the entire download from my summer of being a big meanie from that commitee basically saying APSU would not be tasked with providing an infantry nco to eval STX lanes in 2008.
We both laughed our azz,s off about it.
Got ph calls from my Bde Csm and Col.
Basically along the same tone of laughing about it and thanks for sticking to your guns this summer and doing your best to require at least minimum standards.
I retired sept 1 2008.
