Army Liaison - 38RW - Civil Affairs Specialist

In the U.S. Army, a particular type of Soldier, enlisted and officers, are the essential link between military commanders and towns and villages worldwide. These Soldiers are Civil Affairs professionals.
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[@harveysanchez6993]

Sounds like one of the best and overlooked mos in the army. People only think rangers and SF when they think of army special operations.

[@brandensingletary6625]

As a 38B CA reservist, the pipeline goes as follows: 10wk basic training 10wk AIT (located at Ft. Jackson, SC) Then you get assigned a CA Reserve Battalion. You may or may not get assigned to a Airborne BN. If so, you’ll go to Jump school. That’s it. Going to language school is optional if slots are available at your Unit. That also goes for every other school and active duty mission/deployments.

[@Kreepass34]

So you don’t have to do language school ?

[@MKo-ce4dz]

Not even a selection?

[@javi9388]

@@MKo-ce4dzno

[@javi9388]

@@Kreepass34 if you join the reserves as a 38B you just do BCT and AIT. that’s it if you want to go to DLI for a language you have a good chance if you tell your unit.

[@brandensingletary6625]

@@Kreepass34 correct it’s optional. You’ll have to take take the DLAB which is like test the shows which language can affinity for. Kind of like ASVAB ascore for languages. But then again I joined in 2020 and still haven’t taken it. Lol

[@grovercleavland2698]

I think if I was to join the army, this is what I would want to do.

[@nathanashley5260]

Not lying I’m kind of pissed off no one told me about this.

[@nishaylejagdeep8378]

what name of this song

[@lewiscortayz5232]

This looks lit

[@Badboy-qg4nj]

I love us army ❤️💪 greetings from Spain 👋

[@JJO117]

Oof this kinda looks better than Infantry. I know its special operations or a special unit but the regular US Infantry/combat roles should implement some of their skills. The Australian Army has set a pretty high standard.

[@miamor5929]

I wanna join !

[@joenance7845]

I need a contract

[@JJO117]

Found out lunchbaglujan is a promoter of this MOS did some investigating after seeing her Unit patch. Civil Affairs Psychological Operations.

[@Kharmatos13]

civil affairs and psyop are two different jobs.

[@LSG2000man]

She’s psyops, after she gained popularity I’m assuming her mission is to get more soldiers in the military

[@anamethatisntjustthe6763]

why the tiger got a mask doe?

[@sin7wu]

WHY DID NO ONE TELL ME ABOUT THIS JOB?

[@mr.v1475]

Does the pipeline for reservist change and if so how does it

[@jamesezell2000]

No

[@brandensingletary6625]

As a 38B CA reservist, the pipeline goes as follows: 10wk basic training 10wk AIT (located at Ft. Jackson, SC) Then you get assigned a CA Reserve Battalion. You may or may not get assigned to a Airborne BN. If so, you’ll go to Jump school. That’s it. Going to language school is optional if slots are available at your Unit. That also goes for every other school and active duty mission/deployments.

[@someguy9814]

Does anyone know if reservist training is different from AD? From what I’ve seen it is since I met a guy who was going reserves in this mos and his training pipeline did not look like this at all

[@Halo47143]

No airborne, shorter

[@modernnerf1]

Some units are airborne and some are not and it is only a 10 week AIT

[@rottidelargo3418]

Completely different, look up goarmy training pipeline

[@vaccinatedanti-vaxxer]

I was reserve CA for 7 years, around the late 2000s Donald Rumsfeld took reserves CA out of SOCOM and now it’s under reserves command. Reserve CA (at least when I was going through) still had AIT at JFKSWC in fort Bragg but doesn’t need to go through selection or put in a packet as an NCO. They are just IET privates that join their reserve units right after AIT. There are still plenty of reserves airborne units (monthly jump pay was $17 a month while active duty was over $150 monthly). Other than CA, psyop and riggers, I am unaware of any reserve airborne units.

[@jamesezell2000]

Much different. I taught the officer’s course at Bragg and later taught the enlisted side for another 5 yrs.

[@aidanmcwhirter2612]

How does this differ from Psyops?

[@plasmahandoku1073]

Not sure if this is late. PSYOP and Civil Affair works together a lot. But PSYOP usually handles like, psychological operations that would hinder the enemy or affect an area to even bring awareness of the U.S being good sometimes even getting information. But for Civil Affairs they handle a civilian population or small villages more hands on. Like if a village hit an earthquake but the U.S needs information. They would go there and try to obtain the information while trying to keep good relations with the chief or population. Pretty much Civil Affairs is really good at communication and more hands on, keeping good relations PSYOP is usually more indirect but more, operational planning but they can go hands on just not as good Civil affairs.

[@aidanmcwhirter2612]

@@plasmahandoku1073 Do you know if either require normal color vision?

[@plasmahandoku1073]

@@aidanmcwhirter2612 That I am aware of no. In the Army the only occupation I know that requires like, perfect color vision and 20/20 is Aviation.

[@Mordant.Melodys]

@@plasmahandoku1073I think Infantry does too. I say this because I was almost a no-go for 11B but thankfully got a little help from the corpsman at MEPS. He did the whole “are you sure that’s not green?” thing to me. Signed me off as normal with better than 20/20 and I was off to the races

[@plasmahandoku1073]

@@Mordant.Melodys Oh yea I agree.

[@Keithrrr]

Oh brother…..

[@missy3968]

Patrick yurtski

[@kwameteif9562]

Guess im doing this now

[@samkg1964]

Attach'e

[@duxxling103]

Sounds like 18x MOS

[@insidethefire1]

probably is special forces, to a lesser degree.

[@Kharmatos13]

I think it's a specialty that sf green berets do. So if you took a component of what SF does and made it it's own job you'd have civil affairs, psyop and counter-intel.

[@ricksanders2153]

Nah. Civil Affairs is where you go after you fail out of the 18X pipeline.

[@alexanders2669]

@@ricksanders2153 Or you go when drop a CAAS packet

[@DRHOLEEFOOK]

@Rick Sanders They actually did a brief on this. All the SF drops go to Psyops or Regiment and the 82nd most people I'm CA went that route deliberately.