What does Service Component Regular means in Army and Pay Grade E4 means and Military Specialty 11C1O00 means?
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regular army instead of in the reserves \n(regular army is usually only for people who plan to make the army your career)\n\nE4 is a enlisted pay grade. (Specialist or Corporal)\n\n\nMOS 11C is an indirect fire infantryman.\n \nMajor Duties: The indirect fire infantryman serves as a supervisor or as a member of a mortar squad, section, or platoon. Employs crew and individual weapons in offensive, defensive and retrograde ground combat tactical operations. \n\nSkill Level 1 MOSC 11C1O. Employs, fires, and recovers anti-personnel and anti–tank mines. Performs self extraction from a mine field. Locates and neutralises mines. Navigates from one point on the ground to another. Orients a map. Operates and maintains communications equipment and operates in a radio net. Operates in a NBC contaminated area. Emplace and recover early warning devises. Constructs and camouflages individual/crew served weapons firing position. Constructs and camouflages a mortar firing position. Maintains mortars and fire control equipment. Performs safety checks on mortars. Performs as a member of a mortar squad providing indirect fire support.\n\nI assuming the last two digits allows for MOS to be further specialised but that are not needed in this case.
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With all your other answers I am going to put it way. The Marine Corps rank and pay grade.\nE-1 TO E-3 NON- RATED PVT. PFC L/CPL\nE-4 TO E-5 NCO'S CPL AND SGT\nE-6 TO E-9 STAFF NCO'S SSGT, GY/SGT, MASTER SGT OR FIRST SGT AND MASTER GY/SGT OR SGT,MAJOR.\n\nW-1 TO W-4 WARRANT OFFICERS. (NOT COMMISSION BUT GET THE SAME RESPECT.)\n01-0-10 2LT,1LT,CAPT,MAJOR,LT.COL, COL. B.GEN,\nMAJ.GEN, LT.GEN, GENERAL The higher you go in rank the more men under you and more responibility.
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Scrappy has it pretty much right.  Ask a recruiter.  Be sure to ask your recruiter what his MOS is though, because my recruiter wasn't really in the infantry and didn't know much about it.  Luckily, another recruiter was and could answer all my questions.  Try to speak to someone in an S-2 office.
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Commissioned Officers have college degrees and received a "commission" to serve.  Non-commissioned officers are higher ranking enlisted soldiers, usually an E-5 and above.
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Private E-1\nPrivate E-2\nPrivate First Class\nCorpral/Specialist\nSergeant\nStaff Sergeant\nSergeant First Class\nFirst Sergeant/Master Sergeant\nCommand Sergeant Major\n\nSecond Lieutenant\nFirst Lieutenant\nCaptain\nMajor\nLieutenant Colonel\nColonel\nBrigadier General\nMajor General\nLieutenant General\nGeneral
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A service member's pay is dependent on their pay grade, and their time in service. A Green Beret may also qualify for special pays for things like being "jump" qualified, dive qualified, hazardous duty pay, demolitions pay, etc.  The website in the source has the FY2006 pay charts and listing for the "special" pays.  Sorry I can't give you an exact figure, but this should help you out.
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When I was in the armed forces, the Canadians & us (the U.S.)equated an Army Captain with a Naval Lieutenant.\n\nPS In the U.S. Navy there's also a Lieut. Junior Grade (JG) equal to an Army 1st Lieut & a Navy Ensign equal to an Army 2nd Lieut. If memory serves, these used to go by "sub" & "acting sub" in the Canadian Navy. Of course this was \nsome years ago.\n\nPSS Ensign is not slang. It is an official rank.
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General Infantry.\n\nIt is also an acronym for Government Issue which is more widely accepted.\n\nAlthough when someone in uniform says, "Get over here now G.I.s!" he is talking about the soldiers and not their equipment.
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Formerly, the Army recognized individuals with Specialized skills, be it clerical, mechanical, construction, etc. The were called Specialists, and their ranks extended from Specialist Forth Class through Specialist Ninth Class mirroring the paygrades E4 through E9, respectively. They used the Specialist appelation to differentiate them from leaders and Non-Commissioned Officers (NCOs), whose ranks ran from Corporal to Sergeant Major or Command Sergeant Major, again E4 through E9, respectively. These specialists were promoted through their expertise and seniority, but were not regarded as leaders. In the 70s, the Army stopped appointing SP7s through SP9s, and simply made them all NCOs. They further got rid of SP5s and SP6s and just called the remainder Specialists. Hope that helps.
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There's not an FM on being a spec.  There is a common task handbook for E-1 to E-4.  Ask you Comm. or 1Sgt. for it.
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E-3 is just a rank. Kind of like a job title but it depends what kind of job do you do. Infantry, tanks, Artillery. In Infantry a e-3 is ussually a point man are assistant gunner. In Artillery e-3 is usually a powder or ammo man. and so on... it different for all specialties..
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It is the subdued unit patch for the 5th Infantry Division. Subdued insignia are worn on the battle dress uniform (i.e. camouflage). The non-subdued patch is red and is worn on the Class-A jacket. \n\nIf the patch is worn on the right shoulder, this indicates the soldier wearing it went to combat while a member of that unit. If worn on the left shoulder, the soldier is currently serving in that unit. \n\nThe 5th ID is no longer an active regular army unit.
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e-1 recruit\ne-2 private\ne-3 private first class\ne-4 specialist\ne-4 corporal (Non Commissioned Officer)\ne-5 Sergeant (NCO)\ne-6 staff sergeant (NCO)\ne-7 Sergeant first class (NCO)\ne-8 Master sergeant, first sergeant (NCO)\ne-9 Sergeant Major, Command sergeant Major (NCO)
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I can only speak regarding the Army on this one - branching is determined near the end phase (usually Phase III) of the commissioning process. Each branch has its different qualification requirements; specifically, the medical branch (MD, DDS, RN, Vet etc.) requires that you have a board certified license (like a medical from the AMA etc.). As you are closing in on graduation for commissioning, you will provide a "wish" list of the three branches you are qualified for and would like to serve in. DA will then send your commissioning source a list, by number, of the branches that will be assigned to your entire commissioning class (based on a roll-up of the lists from all the cadets/candidates). Then, based on your class ranking, you will select your branch based on what is available and what you qualify for (for example, whomever is first in class gets first pick at the selections that DA has provided - just out of experience Aviation usually goes first and then the maneuver Combat Arms branches - Infantry, Armor, Artillery - go next). HOWEVER, if you are NOT qualified you cannot branch - last selections are usually the Combat Service Support Branches (Quartermaster, Ordnance and Transportation). Also, certain branches have bonus commissions - that is where they are NOT commissioned as 2nd Lieutenants but 1st LT's or even CPT's (these are normally MD's and Lawyers). If this is very confusing and you would like more information, feel free to e-mail me at sofgrant@hotmail.com and I will do my best to clarify.
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NOPE, but you CAN be a member of the 101st AND be RANGER qualifed. AND you can be a RANGER and NOT be AIRBORNE qualified (you have to be in the 10th mtn div known as "LEG" rangers) alot of people get the idea of the ADDITIONAL SKILL IDENTIFIERS mixed up with UNIT designations -So the 101st is an infantry UNIT and the 75th is an Infantry unit ,AIRBORNE is an additional skill identifier as well as RANGER is an additional skill identifier both come with "TABS" sewn on uniform above unit patch -you can be one or both
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Instead of crying about it on yahoo, you should spend your time cleaning and maintaining your gear. If you are going to spend anytime in the army you should know enough to get an extra set of junk for inspections. Jeez the way the army is today they probably made you an E-5...
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Go to the below link for AR 670-1 (Army regulation for the wear and appearance of the uniform - it includes pictures)