Did you keep the same MOS/branch during your career? How difficult was the transition?

There are other jobs besides Infantry???

2002-2005 15P Flight Ops
2005-2012 74D BN CBRN NCOIC (my true love!)
2012-current 88N Chief Movement Supervisor

When I enlisted I wanted to be a UH-60 pilot but genetics screwed that up (thanks Dad for the red-green color vision). Being in the National Guard there are a-lot of stagnant E-6 to E-8 ( especially in aviation and grease monkeys) so moving up is hard if you don't change MOS. I found Chemical and loved it. I would have been happy to stay in Chemical until I retired but when your BC , who is also your Mom's boss on the civilian side, tells you your changing fields you don't really have much say in the matter.........

NO, I did not get to remian in the same MOS/Career Field. Upon completion of AIT at Ft. Knox, a handfull of us were given orders and a plane ticket to El Paso, Tx to attend "Redeye" School. When I asked, the Drill Sergeant said you will find out when you get there. As most will already know, Redeye was a should fired heat seeking missile (the predecessor of the STINGER). So we attended/completed training and off to the 11th ACR (my enlistment option) in Fulda Germany.
Upon arriving in Fulda, looking forward to getting into a Line Troop, I'm sent to HHT, Redeye Section (WTH)! Wait, send me to a line unit; A,B,C Troop, hell I'll be glad to go to Tank Co. (D). No such luck..EXCEPT, when it time for annual Tank Gunnery. We (and everywhere else in the 70s) were short handed squadron wide and unable to man full crews on Sheridans or M60s. So off to A troop I would go, team up with an esteablished crew of 3 to fill it out to a 4 man crew. It was a great 4-6 weeks of training, crew drills, FTXs, etc. Then off to Tank Gunnery and Qualification. Loved it. Then back to the Redeye Section. After PCSing in 77 to Ft. Polk, (Redeye Section in 3d Bn 10th Inf.) stayed for 18 months and back to Fulda. Now I'm a E5, and Im right back after raising all kinds of hell, and meeting with sqdn CSM and XO, in the Redeye Section. 2 E6s got moved out and I'm in charge! From that point on, I was as happy as could be. Got promoted to SSG during that time. Being in Charge of an independently operational section, under operational control of the S3 tactically! yeah I was happy. In 1980, DA gave us a choice either reclass into 16P (Chapparel/Vulcan), 16S Stinger, or return to your primary. I took 16S thru the rest of my career and retiring as a 16Z. However, I will always considered my self as an Armored Cav Troop. That is where I learned to Soldier, to be an NCO, learned what being a good leader was all about. I just had the opportunity to share it among other Soldiers. Even though I fought it in the beginning, No regrets! Except for the 3 years I spent as a DA Selected Recruiter in Charlotte and Monroe NC. I was so glad to return to the mainstream Army! Recruiting duty was not fun in the early to mid 80s. USAREC was all about management, leadership took a back seat, I regret to say! I did not look back when PCS time came around.