It is pretty amazing what the MANVI could do for you especially one of the MAVNI guy I met at MEPS back in July. He finished Basic and Advance Infantry training as 11B 4 weeks ago, originally from Nepal and speak Nepali and Hindi due to his Indian British education in India. I met a lot of MAVNI stuck with combat arms jobs which I see they got sucker into it but for him he doesn't mind. I spoke to him last Friday over the phone and he is currently station in Ft. Lewis, Washington serving/attach to the 1st Special Forces Group that in responsible Asia-Pacific Region. He was able to get in due to he volunteer for Airborne and his skill with these two Asian languages during AIT. He told me he had his U.S Citizenship test a week or two ago by December he sould be a full pledge U.S Citizen. By next year he should be attending Airborne School and SFAS (Special Forces Assessment and Selection). I guess his American dream is slowly coming true. I want to wish him good luck!
Another guy I know from back in the days when I was in ROTC and a NYU graduate is near completion of his SF training down in Bragg. By January he will be a going through Robin Sage and I am sure he will do fine and pass it with flying colors since he is very square away for being Ranger qualify and Pathfinder qualify etc with one tour under his belt in Iraq.
As for me, hope for the best, prepare for the worst during my Basic in January to March at Ft. Leonard Wood in Missouri. Hopefully I also can get an Airborne slot during AIT and hoping I will end up in Ft. Bragg or even Ft. Lewis.
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You should revise your comment that "a lot of MAVNI stuck with combat arms jobs which I see they got sucker into." You must not realize that the combat arms jobs are the most critical and rewarding jobs in the Army, & the ones where you get to exercise judgment in life and death situations. People in combat arms are the ones promoted to the highest levels. Any MAVNI who picks combat arms is a smart MAVNI, and can be proud of that decision. Didn't you know that the top graduates of West Point each year always select combat arms? The first MAVNI to make general officer will most likely be a combat arms officer.
Soldier Girl. Are you even in the military? I know that combat arms jobs are the most critical and rewarding jobs in the U.S military. Many of the guys I know from ROTC and my frat all picked Combat Arms. Do you think most of them realize that what they got them self into in a time of war? Reality hit them when their comrades in arms get killed in front of them. Some of them could end up with major PTSD or psychological scared for rest of their life. A lot of them got out due to that specific reason and long deployment year after year etc.
In my late teens and in my early 20s I wanted to do combat arms as well especially infantry. But if you think practicality wise. A lot of time it is a useless profession that don't benefit them in the civilian world if they don't do it for the 20 plus years with pension in the military. Either they go back to school for another degree or join the law enforcement.
"People in combat arms are the ones promoted to the highest levels" the reason is the military want solidiers and officers stay in the military for that specific profession.
"Didn't you know that the top graduates of West Point each year always select combat arms?" But how many of them willing to stay in for the 20-30 years hull? Majority of generals and colonels are also from ROTC or OCS
"Any MAVNI who picks combat arms is a smart MAVNI, and can be proud of that decision". Did you read my previous post on what MAVNI is? The solely reasons MAVNI applicants are joining the U.S Army because they want to become a U.S Citizen and nothing else for that matter. If U.S Navy and Air Force also have the same program, I am sure MAVNI applicants would join immediately instead of U.S Army.
As to "The first MAVNI to make general officer will most likely be a combat arms officer". I don't know about that, majority of MAVNI applicants who I spoke to want a MOS that is non-combat related and to stay out of danger much as possible.
As for me, I do it for the experience, to see and prove if I could make it as a Physician Assistant in the future. My MOS is very flexible and I could be attach to any where from combat or non-combat duty.
I'm a mavni applicant and I'll be going airborne and as soon as I qualify for SC/TSC, going to ranger school. So NO, not all MAVNI applicants are just trying to do desk jobs, get their citizehipship and the quit the army to go on with their civilian lives.
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