Thursday, December 8, 2011

What branch, in terms of commissioned officer's have the most opportunities for a combat job?

The Air Force doesn't allow commissioned officer's to be special ops unless they are CRO, which is very selective. In saying this, I am trying to figure out which military academy or ROTC program branch to join. I want to be a pilot, but if that fails I want to be able to have the opportunities to have an active combat job. A desk job would suck in my opinion, so what branch provides the leadership to lead men in real combat?|||shut up with this every marine is a rifleman crap. it just means they all know how to shoot, any branch will teach you how to shoot, they just don't mouth off about it like the Marines do. if not in the combat arms in the USMC, YOU WILL NOT SEE COMBAT, you will just train to see combat on occasion like any branch of the military.



The Army has the most combat slots with infantry, armor, field artillery and air defense artillery. but being a infantry officer in the Army is 10x harder than than being on in the USMC because ALL ARMY INFANTRY OFFICERS MUST PASS RANGER SCHOOL. this is one of the toughest school in the military with a 50% drop out rate, and every single Army infantry officer must pass. In the Marines only higher level infantry officer like Recon have to go.



In the Army, there are more spots but the standards are much higher than any other branches (in the Combat Arms)|||In the Army, you can be in the Aviator branch (AV) or Medical Service Corps (MS), the latter being for medical evacuation pilots only. However, most aviators in the Army are actually Warrant Officers (these are former Enlisted Soldiers with a minimum of 4 years in service... but most have more).





Combat branches are Infantry, Field Artillery, and Cavalry. Everyone sits at a desk at one point or other (like in the school where you'll learn about your branch).|||Marines.





The Army has more officers in combat however they also have a much bigger support staff that never gets close to the front lines. If you want to be in combat, then you want to be a Marine officer.|||Every MArine is a RifleMan


But in the Army you have a better chance of being combat because USMC infrnatry slots fill up pretty fast|||Every Marine is a rifleman.|||News flash: The pilots getting the most combat time are the drone guys. The Predator %26amp; Reaper drones are the future. Not playing Maverick %26amp; Goose anymore.





"Further validating the increasing role that unmanned aerial systems (UAS) play in 21st-century defense, the United States Air Force announced yesterday that it will institutionalize the remotely piloted aircraft pilot service field, establishing undergraduate RPA training that will make UAV pilot less a specialization and more a full-fledged operational career.

The first undergraduate UAS class will begin in October of this year, with training taking the candidates from flight training in Pueblo, Colo., to instrument qualification at Randolph AFB in Texas.



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Like pilot training for manned aircraft, the selection process for the program will be rigorous, including physiological and academic tests aimed at ensuring only the most qualified get behind the sticks of the Air Force鈥檚 unmanned fleet. The program will also offer RPA incentive pay equal to aviation career incentive pay, as well as require a six-year service commitment. (Perhaps after a stint in the service, they can fly passenger drones at home.)

Essentially, the USAF is assigning a distinction 鈥?and a level of operational importance 鈥?to the nation鈥檚 UAV pilots who are playing a critical role in joint warfighting tasks in Iraq and Afghanistan. This could have something to do with U.S. drone policy coming under increased scrutiny in recent months, underscored by a review of a February incident that saw 23 Afghan civilians killed after a drone crew mistakenly identified a convoy of women and children as militants on the move.

But more likely, it鈥檚 a tacit recognition that the future of both peacekeeping and war making is tied to the technological advantages granted to commanders and troops on the ground by their unmanned comrades in the sky. As such, the first generation of professional, career USAF unmanned aerial systems operators will emerge in the next few years ready to take to the remote battlefields of the future."

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