Intro

First and foremost I am writing this blog to help future soldiers make decisions and prepare themselves for their AIT at Fort Gordon. I hope that I do a good job of objectively presenting information and details that my readers will find useful. However, I am in kind of a transitional period in my life and some of my posts may come off as emo or mopey. To help you as the reader scan for solid facts and useful nuggets of info I will format such content in bold letters like this. Angsty rants will get formatted into something else when I can think of something clever to to style them in.

Also, you wont find any information on this blog that isn't supposed to be public. I wont tell you how to circumvent policies or how to do any kind of shenanigans. Privates are plenty capable of getting themselves in trouble and they don't need any help. If you are that kind of soldier I hope you will perform an integrity check so you can stop being such a shit bag. And I'm damn sure not here to post classified information or talk badly about other soldiers or NCOs.

I just got here. That means I am still a total noobie at everything. Maybe that will turn out for the better and my noobie perspective will provide good insight. However I do have some useful information for someone that is about ready to ship.

1. MOS 94e and MOS 94L are being combined. If you signed up to be a 94L (Air Traffic Control Equipment Repair) then you are going to be absorbed into the 94e program when you get here.

2. Training for 94e is now 18 weeks instead of 26 weeks. That's a good thing to. When you read more on my blog and understand what it means not to phase up and earn your privileges then you wouldn't want to waste 2 months here either.

3. If you are a 94 your ass is going to the 73rd Ordinance Battalion. So far it seems like the leadership and the quality of our battalion is very high. But then either I am lucky or every BN says that about themselves.

4. Rumor: If you are a 25 series you go to a different battalion that has much easier requirements to phase up. Here at the 73rd part of your test to "phase up" and earn privileges again is to score a 70% in every event on the PT test. The rest is just memorizing chain of command, slogans and general army knowledge. Be advised that if you are suffering from injuries or just don't have a big enough heart to pass the PT test you are going to be stuck with time wasting details and formations while your battle buddies go out to party on the weekends for the duration of your AIT. At least here at the 73rd.

I hope this helps someone. I will continue to amend my introduction page so that this info doesn't have to be dug up by anyone.