I always wonder what it means for enlisted soldiers
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Military personnel have three jobs. One is their peacetime duty, the second is their wartime duty or specialisation, and the last is maintaining their combat capabilities. A lot of the jobs people have in the military are not much different than regular civilian jobs. Sanitation, facilities maintenance, vehicle maintenance, office work, logistics, communications. Militaries are like small enclosed societies that have to provide themselves with everything civilian society has because in the case of war they have to be self sufficient, so they can’t rely on civilian infrastructure, equipment and personnel, but their own. So basically they mostly have regular jobs like civilians and they’re in uniform while working. Every few weeks or months they’re required to participate in military exercises and training programs to ensure they can competently use a gun and carry out all the duties expected of a combat soldier. In some cases some personnel may be exempt from combat duties.
For example in the unit I was in the NCO in charge of the mess was essentially the head chef. He planned out the menus, ordered and organised food deliveries, oversaw food preparation and trained new cooks. A kind and docile man who worried over every single soldier as if they were his own children and wanted to make sure everyone was eating well. Our base was known to have great food compared to others in the area. That’s more or less a very regular job. But if war broke out tomorrow and he had to assume combat duties his actual specialisation was driving a mine clearing tank.
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