What were your top 5 duty stations as a 19D and why?

SPC Private RallyPoint Member — Sun, 07 Mar 2021 18:27:06 -0500

Response by LTC Jason Mackay made Mar 7 at 2021 9:54 PM

LTC Jason Mackay — Sun, 07 Mar 2021 21:54:25 -0500

I would advise you to take any assignment in Germany or Italy ( if you are airborne qualified) you can get.

Korea could also be a great learning opportunity.

Otherwise Conus is Conus. You’re either training to go to NTC/JRTC or stationed at NTC/JRTC.

Response by SFC Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 8 at 2021 1:44 AM

SFC Private RallyPoint Member — Mon, 08 Mar 2021 01:44:55 -0500

I would advise any young single Soldier to try at least one, OCONUS tour in their career. Korea, Germany, Hawaii, Alaska. Preferably a different country and culture.

Response by CW2 Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 10 at 2021 4:27 PM

CW2 Private RallyPoint Member — Wed, 10 Mar 2021 16:27:52 -0500

Fort Campbell....all other stations are horrible.
Loved Campbell, hated 2CR, hated 3ID, and seeing how 4ID treats its Soldiers - would've hated that too.

EDIT - didn't give much of why: Keep in mind a LOT of reasons for good v bad stations comes down to those in command at the time - posts and units DO change. I was at Campbell 04-07 - when war was "fun", so we were doing lots of fun stuff like demo, ranges galore, etc... the other places were when the ROE started getting in the way of the fight/turned more towards stability rather than warfighting...which is much less "fun"
Campbell is in an amazing area, lots of major cities within 6 hr drive, and Clarksville is by far the 2nd best city right outside a post (Co Springs if ALL that Carson has going for it). It's light - aka not mechanized and you will walk everywhere, there's no month long gunneries and annoying crap...because it's light. amazing history, great inter-BDE rivalries, it's great there.