What does a career as an Armor officer entail as far as BOLC, PL time, duty stations, scouts or tanks?

2018-12-31T21:44:56-05:00

Response by SGT Joseph Gunderson made Jan 1 at 2019 7:43 PM

2019-01-01T19:43:16-05:00

Response by SFC Private RallyPoint Member made Jan 1 at 2019 7:52 PM

2019-01-01T19:52:02-05:00

I commission in 2020 and am looking to possibly branch armor. Right now I am a 12b with about 12 years in.

Response by LTC Private RallyPoint Member made Jan 5 at 2019 2:07 AM

2019-01-05T02:07:09-05:00

I got commissioned as an Armor Officer...did 4 years before my branch detail was up and switched over to LG. I was assigned to 10th Mountain (Light) - that has ZERO tanks! I was not a happy camper...but turned-out to be one of the best assignments of my 21 year career. AOB (BOLC) - was at Fort Knox at the time...now at Fort Benning. TCGST forced a lot of LTs to take a re-do on that test...study those hard. Everything else was pretty easy. Don't be dumb and go downtown and drink and get a DUI...we had a few of those.
As far as duty stations - anywhere there is a BCT...you can go (Drum, Hood, Stewart, Carson, Irwin, Bliss, JBLM, Alaska, HI, Germany, Italy, Korea).

While I wanted to be on tanks (since that is what I went to AOB for) - I enjoyed my time as a Scout Platoon Leader and HHC XO at Fort Drum.

Career wise - PL, XO, Asst S-3, CO, S-3/XO...same box checks as any other Combat Arms MOS. If you go "light" - recommend the CAV Leaders Course and/or Ranger school.