I always wonder what it means for enlisted soldiers
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There’s a lot of different jobs that serve a lot of different purposes. How busy any individual is on a given day can vary wildly from day to day.
Bases run like miniature cities complete with hospitals/clinics, law enforcement and JAG (lawyers), accounting departments, IT departments, food services and a ton of administration services, just to name a few. Officers and enlisted personnel will work those like regular M-F 9-5s complete with (most)weekends and holidays off. A low ranking medic, for example, might work in a clinic in mostly the same capacity an LPN would in a civilian clinic. As they move up in rank, they take on more leadership roles and do more paperwork.
Combat arms like Infantry, for example, will spend most of their week doing various training exercises, physical fitness, practicing drill or various ceremonies, and inevitably a lot of cleaning. Going to the rifle range, for example, is an all day affair where you spend a large portion of it just sitting and waiting for your turn to shoot for a few minutes, then waiting until they’re done for the day and you’re dismissed. Lots of early morning PT, going on ruck marches and company runs that can last for hours.
Like I said before, the experience of one person can vary greatly to another. The only constants that everyone will experience are uniform inspections, PT to some degree and standing around waiting for large swaths of time. Oh and vaccines, lots of vaccines.
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