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Quote by: rcne I'm a vet, from the Vietnam era. Been there done that. But go in as an officer, take the officer training course if they offer it.
I didn't grab the opportunity to become an officer in boot camp, but looking back I should have. |
I have been both enlisted and an officer. It's amazing, I guess, how different the two are.
There were some advantages to being enlisted. You got to work in your speciality. If you trained to be a radio man, you worked as a radio man (of course, there were a great many enlisted men who worked outside of their MOS.) but in general we tried to direct men to their MOS specialities.
Being an officer wasn't nearly as cut and dried. You had to
lead your troops. That's sometimes hard to do; sometimes the grunts don't want to be lead by you.
If I had to do it all over again, I'd go for OCS again.
Lots of good enlisted troops were given the opportunity, but bailed when they learned that their obligation was going to be extended.
I was in during the VN era too.
