Quote Originally Posted by Telys The Conqueror
Nah, I'm going into transportation, but luckily I had the option to go airbourne on top of that. First Ill go to fort lwood in missouri for basic and ait then I'll go to fort benning georgia. I believe I'm gonna be stationed in fort sill but hopefully I can go regimental and get overseas.And to be honest I still know very little about all of this, I can only tell you whats on the paper in front of me. First unit of assignment: UNAB

Yesdachi- Since I haven't ran in a few years I'm gonna make sure I can atleast run a mile in 8 minutes before I do pt.
Ah fort lost in the woods. Not a bad basic training post. Hot and humid in the summer but not near as bad as Georgia.

The Army is pretty much based on the regiment system as is, however in my time it did not have much impact upon your duty assignment.

One way to insure you get transfered overseas is to re-enlist for that type of assignment. (only if your interested in staying in.) Depending on your enlistment contract - chances are you will get orders after 2 years to 3 years at Fort Sill for another duty station. (If your contract is 4 years - you will most likely come down on levy for assignment at your 3 year mark. And the Army will ask you to re-enlist for the new duty station.) Pay close attention to what the papers state. Only re-enlist if that is what you want to do.

Fort Sill is not a bad duty station either, if your after deployments to overseas locations. Try to get assigned to one of the Field Artillery Battalions that are part of 3rd Corps Artillery, some deployments to overseas will definitly happen then, plus the Artillery Units often deploy to the NTC and JRTC to support divisional units training at the Training Centers.

If your MOS is going to be what I think it is (can't remember the MOS but I believe 88M) then most likely will will be assigned to one of the Artillery Battalions driving Ammunition vehicles. But if I remember correctly there are several Corps level Combat Service Support units assigned at Fort Sill. All of those units are most likely active in the deployment schedules also.

If you do not want to be deployed - try to get assigned to the Artillery School. (Not that you will have much of a choice.)