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Life at the Adjutant General School

June 17, 2009

Hi again, I just wanted to let you all know what life is like working in the Adjutant General School at Ft. Jackson, SC. Prior to being assigned to the AG Proponent/Leader Development Division at the AG School I was assigned to MTOE or Operating Force units, coming from the 1st Cavalry Division at Ft. Hood. At first it was hard to get used to working with all of the civilians here at the school, but as time has went on it has become easier. I was not used to having civilians in charge of mostly everything. They run the awards ceremonies and so forth. There are more civilians that work here than Soldiers and 99% of the Soldiers are NCOs. We have no lower ranking Soldiers to pull details so we have to do them. There are only 4 people who work in my section and I am the only enlisted person. So, if there is a detail, I have to pull it most of the time. This is also hard to get used to. Working on the TDA or Generating Force side of the Army is very different. Although we are important part of the Army it is very different. Yes it is very nice to be stable, not have to worry about deploying; getting to go home at regular hours, but it is a different beast. I am very glad that I have the chance to work here because it has allowed me to spend more time with my wife and kids and that has been wonderful. Here in the section that I work in we deal with all of the 42A Human Resources structure or slots. If something has to be changed, deleted, or added we do it and that goes for the Reserves and National Guard as well. We also do leader development for all of our 42As, we write the Proponent Information Packets for the Senior Enlisted Boards (Active Duty), I run the AG Proponent/Leader Development S1 Net page, and we brief the 42A BNCOC and ANCOC classes and much more. This job is very rewarding and I am blessed to have the opportunity to work here. So, that is what life is like here in the School House. Take care
 

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  • Alan E. Creager

    Nov 19, 2010 6:43 PM

    That's all very interesting, very informative. Thank you for sharing that with me-us?- First Sergeant.

    I have been looking around at Army MOS' lately and the Adjutant General field seems interesting. Didn't know there were so many civilians running around. It must be a unique experience, getting to work with just as many civilians as soldiers if not more.

    I'm very interested in gathering information on the Adjutant General field as well as other non-combat MOS' in the Army, particularly those available to officers. So, anybody that knows something about that, lemme know. And thanks, once again, to First Sergeant Howell for writing this up.


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