Posted on Jan 26, 2020
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I’m beginning to contemplate the possibility of my spouse getting orders overseas as she’s completing Airborne school (she’s currently in BCT). I know being a Reservists limite be but I’d like to explore my options.

Edit: Apologies, it was late. It might help if I mention her MOS: 14G, Air Defense Battle Management Systems Operator.
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SFC Retention Operations Nco
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None that I'm aware of, and your spouse getting Airborne School, about 80% of airborne assignments are CONUS. Not sure what your spouse's MOS is but the major Airborne OCONUS support units are 1-1SFG, 1-10 SFG, 4/25 and 173rd. There are smaller detachments, but those are the BN and BDE size units
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SFC Retention Operations Nco
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SGT (Join to see) if she goes to Airborne school and passes that will almost certainly he her first assignment. There are non-Psyops units you could drill with in Germany and Japan. Or, while I was in Oki, one of the guys arranged to have his wife dril with our AD unit for her two week AT.
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SFC (Join to see) Yes, I was hoping AT with an Active unit was not too far-fetched! Either way, to maintain my skill set and be a functional PSYOP NCO it would definitely be more beneficial to remain stateside. Thank you SFC.
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SGT (Join to see) you could probably do your AT with the SF Group battalion in Japan or Germany. They have AD 37F's attached already, so it would be a great chance for some real world operational experience and professional mentorship from Senior NCOs
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SSG Infantryman
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HOA has both reserve and active mist/TPT teams. The probability to be selected is very low. I am talking like 19-20 tops they also rotate what POGs the rotations started in 08 and have been going ever since.

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None, I just sat down with a USAR recruiter in Germany last month. They had CA but no PSYOPs.
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Thank you for the information SFC.
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100% No!
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324th PSYOP out of CO is in HOA at this time and they ripped 344th out of TX
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MAJ Javier Rivera
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Got you SSG (Join to see), but like you stayed, out of CONUS on a deployment. Doesn’t fit the description of overseas duty station.
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Tracking. I saw Reserve PSYOP units overseas and didnt read anything about overseas duty station. I took it as that as any status.
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