Some Military Jobs seem cool but the reality is they have their downsides. Army recruiters, particularly, the U.S Army Recruiters, are likely to tell you that these cool Army Jobs are right for you without explaining the downside to you. In this post, we shall give you the downside of at least 5 Army Jobs that people think are cool but have some crappy downside.
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Here are eight awesome jobs that sometimes, unexpectedly, suck:
1. Mortarmen lob bombs but carry insane weight
You may have heard of Mortarmen and Lob Bombs but the reality is that Mortar Soldiers, for example, with the 77th Armored Regiment, 3rd Brigade, 1st Armored Division, work around the clock in the Army to fire a 120mm mortar round to provide indirect, suppressive fire for infantry Soldiers during a squad live-fire exercise November 3, 2016 at Udari Range near Camp Buehring, Kuwait.
A recruit is likely to think that being handed rifles to bomb enemies via mortar shells is cool, however, what most enlisted men fail to let recruits know is the weight of these shells. Imagine a Mortarman who has to get close to his firing point and thence has to carry a mortar weighing 20-40 pounds in addition to mortar shells that weigh about 4 pounds each. That is incredibly difficulty and even impossible when some Mortar systems go high up as 81mm.
2. Wolfhound operators
Anyone told you that these servicemen are literally nerds? Oh yes, that is the fact and U.S. Army Sgt. John Leslie, of Sierra Vista, Ariz., cited as an example, completes system setup for the Wolfhound intelligence gathering system during the fielding and training class at Forward Operating Base Gamberi, January 25, 2014.
You really have learn a whole lot if you decide to go this way because there’s a class of soldier that can detect the location of enemy transmissions and then listen in on them, translating them instantly if they’re a linguist or have one nearby. But, unless the carrier is an infantryman who can absolutely destroy on the Expert Infantry Badge course, they’re going to be derided as a nerd. The basic point with this category is that there is a never ending learning process and most of the stuff are geeky stuff.
3. Public affairs
In war times, Public Affairs are literally tourist. Cool? May be not!! One would expect to see some action in the army. U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Brendan Mackie, photojournalist with the Hawaii Army National Guard’s 117th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment, photographs from the back of a Stryker fighting vehicle during Operation Buffalo Thunder II in Shorabak district, Kandahar province, Afghanistan, June 27, 2012. That is certainly not an easy one and no one really tells you that for a fact.
For the efforts of patrol and hitting buildings, clearing obstacles for combat and literally doing the dirty job, you are still regarded a tourist if you are in this service. You have to learn bits and pieces of every place and apply.
4. Cav scouts
Imagine being the ears and eyes of your units and yet being underrated. That is the exact feeling of U.S Army Soldiers who are Cav Scouts. One time, U.S. Army Soldiers assigned to Multinational Battle Group-East’s Forward Command Post cleared a building during a training exercise in Gracanica, Kosovo, May 10, 2017.
From crawling in mud to being regarded as weird, Cav Scouts go through some of the toughest times in gathering information for the Military.
5. Medics
Ever heard thought of being a Medic in the Army? Maybe it is not as cool as the others. Even worse is the kind of stuff they see; the craziest endings of war go through Medics. California Army National Guard Soldiers from the 40th Combat Aviation Brigade prepare simulated casualties to be evacuated by a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter from Company F, 2nd Battalion, 238th Aviation Regiment, 40th CAB, at a tactical combat casualty care lane at Camp Buehring, Kuwait, February 23, 2016.
Most enlisted men contract all sort of diseases when they are away fro home and Medics have to deal these diseases. It is not easy the kind of things they see.