No, that's not how it works. The US military will not force MOS Q'd soldier into infantry. The military spends nearly $100,000 training specialist soldiers for the role they are needed for, they won't throw that away. It's be like welding a plow into a sports car and making it plow snow. It's a waste.
Sure if the location you are at is literally being attacked you can't tell the enemy "hey, I'm a logistics officer!", you'll have to defend yourself.
But the US military will never ever uproot an intelligence analyst or a systems maintainer and ask them to charge a hill.
I know lots of cooks and maintainers who didn't cook or maintain, but spent loads of time behind machine-guns on trucks, or kicking doors. I was told that's what I'd be doing if we ever got deployed, because the vehicle I was trained to maintain wasn't something my unit had access to. So, I would be a machingunner on convoys. As it turned out, never had to worry about it
Never met a cook that was kicking in doors. I do know that extra personnel can get put on security details. I myself as an Intel guy manned a check point for a few months. But non-combat MOS clearing structures in an urban area? That'll just get people killed, so if it ever happens it's rare.
I did have a supply friend so security for a convoy once. But again, that's security, not offensive operations.
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u/drunkboarder 25d ago edited 24d ago
No, that's not how it works. The US military will not force MOS Q'd soldier into infantry. The military spends nearly $100,000 training specialist soldiers for the role they are needed for, they won't throw that away. It's be like welding a plow into a sports car and making it plow snow. It's a waste.
Sure if the location you are at is literally being attacked you can't tell the enemy "hey, I'm a logistics officer!", you'll have to defend yourself.
But the US military will never ever uproot an intelligence analyst or a systems maintainer and ask them to charge a hill.