I am a spc(p), I am about to go reclass to 25u I am going to school as a mosT not out of basic training. How is the schooling for reclassing soldiers?

I went to the Fort Gordon site. My son is going in as a 25U. On the site, under schools, it doesn't show the 25U designation. Can anyone explain this to me? Does it mean they will put him in one of the other jobs e.g.: 25B or is it a situation where they learn the whole scope?

Your son will attend classes for 25U. On the site is still listed as 31U, which use to be the MOS code for signal support systems. My son is currently there. Is your son in the reserves or Army?

Sorry, I forgot to mention the Fort Gordon web sites have not been updated in a very long time. The contact #'s are correct but the name of contacts are not and some information is very outdated.

He goes to basic in Fort benning next week. He will be on active duty.
Do you know how long he gets for leave after basic, before reporting to AIT at Fort gordon?
thanks

He will most likely get no leave time before AIT My son went to basic at Ft. Knox & after graduation the soldiers loaded on a bus and went to Ft. Gordon.
If your son signed up for the "hometown recruiting" with his recruiter he will be able to come home for about 10 days after AIT. He has to follow up with the people at Ft. Gordon to make sure they have him listed as a "hometown recruiter" or else they won't honor it.

I'm an E5(p) reclassing from 25F to 25U. I'm in week 4. It's not that bad. As a prior service reclass, I'm on day shift. I get up at 4am, leave my hotel (no lodging on Gordon), get to formation at 4:50am, fall in at 0500, take roll, march out for PT at 0530 until 0630. Class starts at 0830, until 1630, final formation/mail call at 1645, and then off.

If you have decent computer skills, the first part of the class is a breeze, I'll let you know later about the rest. For initial soldiers, you know about the phasing process. I've been there, done that and survived. AIT is NOT the real Army!! Just stay out of trouble and then get to your 1st duty station/reserve unit, and things will be better.

Peace

mhjson: My son is a 25U and just started AIT training in Ft Gordon this month. He was hoping to start class on Monday but he, and a few other guys, didn't get their class schedule. They were told they may have to fall in with the next group that is coming in next week... I'm not sure why this is except they may be out of space? Anyway, they have to wait for this next group to go through FOB so it may be another 10-14 days before they get to start class.

Anyway, can you explain what the "phasing process" is? Also, now that you've been in class for a while, how is it going? Is it difficult?

We are at Fort Gordon now. My husband is MOS-T in training as 25U. We have been here since July 12th..he spent like a week in processing and then they had him basically waiting around doing things to keep him busy for a few days. He was at the FOB for 8 days and then he started classes about a week after he got back from the FOB.

Fort Gordon seesm to be a bit unorganized in my opinion. My husband loves the classes and is doing very well. He thinks its easy but he is into computers/electronics type thing. If that is your interest then Im sure the classes will be enjoyable for you.

Were you able to go with your husband to AIT?

My DH will be at Gordon end of Jan. for 25S. I've been hearing classes do not start as scheduled. Hoping this is not the case!

When I attended Gordon the first 9 weeks was all computer related learning. The rest of the 10 weeks was learning how to troubleshoot military tactical radios and communication equipment. This MOS gives you the basics to troubleshoot and repair problems with communications equipment. Also I learned why they trained us on computers. When I was in Korea we had a major shortage of 25B so basically if you knew a bit about computers, your the new company network administrator. I had a blast being commo though, except sitting on a hill in Korea during winter pulling retrans operations for a week freezing my b@$$s off!LOL.

Did you volunteer for korea? Did they pay more for you to go there?

I did not volunteer for Korea. My orders sent me there to 2ID at Camp Casey. I was in an Armor Unit. I was there for 1 year then had orders to go to FT. Riley. About a month out they changed my orders and I got stuck in Korea for another year but I was transferred to 8th MP Brigade. Korea was fun though. Its what you make it over there. Lots of good training, at least I had good training. And yes you do get overseas pay.