When an ARMY solider goes through basic how is it determined which regiment they go to?

Question

Being a civilian I have no clue. How do people end up in the 1st 0r 2nd Division? Could ask for 101st Airborne or 82nd Airborne? Or that Air cavalry? How does all this work out who goes where?

Answer 1

to say the truth the instructor knows everyone right so he watches every one during training and will ovisly know who can do which part of the training easily and which part he struggles on and then they put him in that division simple!!

Answer 2

They will look at MOS, and see where there are openings. If there are multiple openings (which there always are) they look at your wish list (which you create for where you'd like to be stationed) and if an opening matches with your wish list, you will get where you chose.  

Answer 3

It is based upon strength management. Each unit has a personnel section S1, G1, etc. They report or get reported to them on a unit Status Report (USR) the number of each MOS and Skill level (rank) monthly. This feeds up to Army HRC. This along with the Assignment Satisfication Key (ASK) which you fill out on the computer during either BCT, or AIT. Then they will give your orders based upon all of theunit's strength and your ASK. Some duty stations are easier to get then others.  Your instructor has nothing to do with it at all. Or you can get this in your contract at MEPS. Hard to do.

Answer 4

Whenever a soldier leaves the active army it creates an open billet in the TOE (Table of Organization and Equipment) which recorded by the Department of Army which asks the TRADOC (Training and Doctrine Command) how many individual of that MOS (Military Occupational Series) are available to fill that open billet, whichever billets go vacant first are the first ones to be filled.

Airborne units are slightly different because you must volunteer to go airborne and qualify to jump status prior to being assigned to an open billet in one of the Airborne Divisions or Brigades.  Just like being a Ranger or Special Forces, you must be qualified to fill the open billet prior to being assigned to it.

Prior to classifying you to your MOS assignment they have already evaluated your ability to perform in several career fields mostly based on your GT score.  Score low and you become an infantryman, slightly higher you might be assigned to armor or artillery, higher still and you could be in combat aviation and so on.  You still need to successfully complete your AIT (Advanced Individual Training) before you are actually assigned to an open billet.  Given two or three years you are either advancing up into an open billet for a junior NCO or out of the Army and some other new kid is posted to the billet you have vacanted....  

Answer 5

Its based on the needs of the Army. If the 82nd needs a certain MOS then, they get first pick so to speak, if there are more than one unit needing the same MOS or an equal amount of an MOS then they are devided up by a computer, randomly. Pre and post Deployment also have a factor in this