Army National Guard Recruiting - Prosper/Little Elm

OVERVIEW
The UH-60 helicopter repairer is primarily responsible for the maintenance of UH-60 helicopters (also known as Black Hawks). With hundreds of Army National Guard missions depending on these helicopters, UH-60 helicopter repairers must ensure that all of them are safe and ready to fly.

JOB DUTIES
• Remove and install aircraft subsystem assemblies such as engines, rotors, gearboxes, transmissions and mechanical flight controls
• Service and lubricate aircraft and subsystems
• Prepare aircraft for inspections and maintenance checks
• Assist in diagnosing/troubleshooting

TRAINING
Job training for a UH-60 helicopter repairer requires 10 weeks of Basic Combat Training and 14 weeks of Advanced Individual Training with on-the-job instruction. Part of this time is spent in the classroom, and part takes place in the field.

Advanced Individual Training: 14 weeks, 1 day at Fort Eustis, VA

Some of the skills you’ll learn are:
• Engine disassembly and repair
• Repair of aluminum, steel and fiberglass airframes/coverings
• Repair of hydraulic, fuel and electrical systems
FUTURE CIVILIAN CAREERS
The skills you learn will help prepare you for a career as an airframe or powerplant mechanic.
WHAT WE ARE
The Texas Army National Guard is a reserve component of the Army with a primary mission to support the State of Texas. After initial training you serve one weekend a month and two weeks in the summer, with the chance of being called on to assist with state emergencies such as hurricanes, floods, pandemics, and civil unrest. While serving in the Guard you are able to have a full-time civilian career or go to school (with up to 100% tuition paid for) while still earning full-time military benefits from your part-time service.

OVERVIEW
The infantry is the main land combat force and fighting foundation of the National Guard. They are responsible for defending our country against any threat by land, as well as capturing, destroying and repelling enemy ground forces.

JOB DUTIES
• Perform as a member of a fire team during drills and combat
• Aid in the mobilization of vehicles, troops, and weaponry
• Assist in reconnaissance missions
• Process prisoners of war and captured documents
• Use, maintain and store combat weapons (e.g., rifles, machine guns, antitank mines, etc.)

TRAINING
Twenty-two weeks of One Station Unit Training, which includes Basic Combat Training and Advanced Individual Training. Part of this time is spent in the classroom and part in the field at Fort Benning, GA.
Basic Training: 10 weeks and 3 days
Advanced Individual Training: 12 weeks

FUTURE CIVILIAN CAREERS
The skills you learn will help prepare you for any chosen career.

WHAT WE ARE
The Texas Army National Guard is a reserve component of the Army with a primary mission to support the State of Texas. After initial training you serve one weekend a month and two weeks in the summer, with the chance of being called on to assist with state emergencies such as hurricanes, floods, pandemics, and civil unrest. While serving in the Guard you are able to have a full-time civilian career or go to school (with up to 100% tuition paid for) while still earning full-time military benefits from your part-time service.

OVERVIEW
Cyber operations specialists execute defensive and offensive cyberspace operations (DCO and OCO). Cyber operations specialists ensure the freedom of maneuver within the cyberspace domain and deny the same to adversaries.

JOB DUTIES
• Perform cyber-attacks/defenses
• Perform cyber intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance actions on specified systems and networks
• Conduct network terrain audits, pe*******on testing, basic digital forensics data analysis, and software threat analysis
• React to cyberspace events, employ cyberspace defense infrastructure capabilities, collect basic digital forensics data, provide incident response impact assessments and produce network security posture assessments

TRAINING
Job training for a cyber operations specialist requires completing 10 weeks of Basic Combat Training and two phases of Advanced Individual Training (AIT). Phase 1 is located in Corry Station, FL, for 25 weeks, and phase 2 is located in Fort Gordon, GA, for 20 weeks.
Some of the skills you'll learn are:
• Conducting defensive cyberspace operations
• Conducting offensive cyberspace operations
• Analyzing information

FUTURE CIVILIAN CAREERS
The skills you learn will help prepare you for a career in certain government agencies, as well as jobs in private electronic/communication companies.

WHAT WE ARE
The Texas Army National Guard is a reserve component of the Army with a primary mission to support the State of Texas. After initial training you serve one weekend a month and two weeks in the summer, with the chance of being called on to assist with state emergencies such as hurricanes, floods, pandemics, and civil unrest. While serving in the Guard you are able to have a full-time civilian career or go to school (with up to 100% tuition paid for) while still earning full-time military benefits from your part-time service.

OVERVIEW
Motor transport operators are primarily responsible for supervising or operating wheel vehicles to transport personnel and cargo. They are the backbone of the Army National Guard's support and sustainment structure, providing advanced mobility on and off the battlefield.

JOB DUTIES
• Operate all wheel vehicles and equipment over varied terrain and roadways
• Manage load, unload and safety of personnel being transported
• Oversee and check proper loading and unloading of cargo on vehicles and trailers
• Employ convoy defense techniques
• Identify, correct or report all vehicle deficiencies
• Prepare vehicle for movement/shipment by air, rail or vessel.

TRAINING
Job training for a motor transport operator requires 10 weeks of Basic Combat Training and six weeks of Advanced Individual Training. Part of this time is spent in the classroom, and part takes place in simulation; however, more than 200 training hours are spent in actual vehicles and field training environments.
Advanced Individual Training: 6 weeks, 3 days at Fort Leonard Wood, MO

FUTURE CIVILIAN CAREERS
The skills you learn will help prepare you for a career with trucking, moving or bus companies, or with businesses that have their own delivery fleets. You’ll be able to consider a future as a tractor-trailer truck, tank truck, heavy truck or bus driver.

WHAT WE ARE
The Texas Army National Guard is a reserve component of the Army with a primary mission to support the State of Texas. After initial training you serve one weekend a month and two weeks in the summer, with the chance of being called on to assist with state emergencies such as hurricanes, floods, pandemics, and civil unrest. While serving in the Guard you are able to have a full-time civilian career or go to school (with up to 100% tuition paid for) while still earning full-time military benefits from your part-time service.

OVERVIEW
The wheeled vehicle mechanic is primarily responsible for supervising and performing maintenance and recovery operations on wheeled vehicles and associated items, as well as heavy-wheeled vehicles and select armored vehicles.

JOB DUTIES
• Maintain wheeled vehicles, their associated trailers and material handling equipment systems
• Inspect, service, maintain, repair, replace, adjust and test of wheeled vehicles and material handling equipment systems, subsystems and components
• Service automotive electrical systems, including wiring harness, starting and charging systems
• Perform wheeled vehicle recovery operations

TRAINING
Job training for a wheeled vehicle mechanic requires 10 weeks of Basic Combat Training and 12 weeks of Advanced Individual Training with on-the-job instruction. Part of this time is spent in the classroom, and part takes place in the field.
Advanced Individual Training: 12 weeks at Fort Jackson, SC

FUTURE CIVILIAN CAREERS
The skills you learn will help prepare you for a career with service stations, auto dealers, farm equipment companies and state highway agencies. You’ll be able to pursue a career as a garage mechanic, carburetor mechanic, transmission mechanic, radiator mechanic, construction equipment mechanic or endless track vehicle mechanic.

WHAT WE ARE
The Texas Army National Guard is a reserve component of the Army with a primary mission to support the State of Texas. After initial training you serve one weekend a month and two weeks in the summer, with the chance of being called on to assist with state emergencies such as hurricanes, floods, pandemics, and civil unrest. While serving in the Guard you are able to have a full-time civilian career or go to school (with up to 100% tuition paid for) while still earning full-time military benefits from your part-time service.

OVERVIEW
The health care specialist is primarily responsible for providing emergency medical treatment, limited primary care, and health protection and evacuation from a point of injury or illness.

JOB DUTIES
• Administer emergency medical treatment to battlefield casualties
• Assist with outpatient and inpatient care and treatment
• Prepare blood samples for laboratory analysis
• Prepare patients, operating rooms, equipment and supplies for surgery

TRAINING
Job training for a health care specialist requires 10 weeks of Basic Combat Training and 16 weeks of Advanced Individual Training, including practice of inpatient care.
Advanced Individual Training: 16 weeks at Fort Sam Houston, TX
Some of the skills you’ll learn are:
• Patient care techniques
• Emergency medical techniques
• Methods of sterilizing surgical equipment
• Plaster-casting techniques

FUTURE CIVILIAN CAREERS
The skills you learn will help prepare you for a career with civilian hospitals, clinics, nursing homes or rehabilitation centers. With a health care specialist background, you may consider a career as an emergency medical technician, medical assistant, medication aide or physician assistant.
With continued study and experience, you may qualify for certification with the National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians as a first responder.

WHAT WE ARE
The Texas Army National Guard is a reserve component of the Army with a primary mission to support the State of Texas. After initial training you serve one weekend a month and two weeks in the summer, with the chance of being called on to assist with state emergencies such as hurricanes, floods, pandemics, and civil unrest. While serving in the Guard you are able to have a full-time civilian career or go to school (with up to 100% tuition paid for) while still earning full-time military benefits from your part-time service.

OVERVIEW
Horizontal construction engineers use bulldozers, cranes, graders and other heavy equipment to move tons of earth and material to complete construction projects for the Army National Guard. They are also responsible for operating tractors with dozer attachments, scoop loaders, backhoe loaders, hydraulic excavators, motorized graders and scrapers.

JOB DUTIES
• Analyze information on grade stakes and their placement
• Drive bulldozers, road graders and other heavy equipment to level earth
• Clear, grub, strip, excavate, backfill, stockpile and push scraper with tractor crawler
• Cut and spread fill material with scraper
• Transport heavy construction equipment with tractor-trailer
• Assist in performance of combat engineer missions

TRAINING
Job training for a horizontal construction engineer requires 10 weeks of Basic Combat Training and nine weeks of Advanced Individual Training. Part of this time is spent in the classroom, and part takes place in the field with on-the-job instructions.
Advanced Individual Training: 12 weeks at Fort Leonard Wood, MO
Some of the skills you’ll learn are:
• Operation of different types of construction and rough-terrain equipment
• Maintenance and repair of equipment
• Identification of soil types and placement of grade stakes

FUTURE CIVILIAN CAREERS
The skills you learn will help prepare you for a career with building contractors, state highway agencies, rock quarries, well drillers and construction firms.

WHAT WE ARE
The Texas Army National Guard is a reserve component of the Army with a primary mission to support the State of Texas. After initial training you serve one weekend a month and two weeks in the summer, with the chance of being called on to assist with state emergencies such as hurricanes, floods, pandemics, and civil unrest. While serving in the Guard you are able to have a full-time civilian career or go to school (with up to 100% tuition paid for) while still earning full-time military benefits from your part-time service.

OVERVIEW
Military police protect the lives and property on Army National Guard installations by enforcing military laws and regulations. They also control traffic, prevent crime and respond to all emergencies.

JOB DUTIES
• Complete law enforcement patrols
• Interview witnesses, victims and suspects in investigations
• Secure and process crime scenes
• Arrest and charge criminal suspects

TRAINING
Job training for military police requires 20 weeks of One Station Unit Training and on-the-job instruction in police methods. Part of this time is spent in the classroom, and part takes place in the field.
Advanced Individual Training: 9 weeks at Fort Leonard Wood, MO
Some of the skills you’ll learn are:
• Basic warrior skills and use of fi****ms
• Military/civil laws and jurisdiction
• Investigating and collecting evidence
• Traffic and crowd control
• Arrest and restraint of suspects

FUTURE CIVILIAN CAREERS
The skills you learn will help prepare you for a career with federal, state and local law enforcement.

WHAT WE ARE
The Texas Army National Guard is a reserve component of the Army with a primary mission to support the State of Texas. After initial training you serve one weekend a month and two weeks in the summer, with the chance of being called on to assist with state emergencies such as hurricanes, floods, pandemics, and civil unrest. While serving in the Guard you are able to have a full-time civilian career or go to school (with up to 100% tuition paid for) while still earning full-time military benefits from your part-time service.

OVERVIEW
As a combat engineer, you'll get your team out of any tough spot. You'll supervise and assist your team as it tackles rough terrain during combat operations. You will also construct fighting positions, prime and detonate explosives, and become an expert in general engineering.

JOB DUTIES
• Build fighting positions, defensive positions, and floating or fixed bridges
• Place and detonate explosives
• Clear paths of obstacles
• Install firing systems for demolition
• Detect mines visually or with mine detectors

TRAINING
Job training for a combat engineer requires 14 weeks of One Station Unit Training, which includes Basic Combat Training and Advanced Individual Training. Part of this time is spent in the classroom, and part takes place in the field with on-the-job instructions.
One Station Unit Training: 14 weeks at Fort Leonard Wood, MO
Some of the skills you’ll learn are:
• Basic demolitions
• Basic explosive hazards
• Constructing wire obstacles
• Fixed bridge building
• Basic urban operations
• Operating heavy equipment

FUTURE CIVILIAN CAREERS
The skills you learn will help prepare you for a career in the fields of construction, building inspection and building engineering.

WHAT WE ARE
The Texas Army National Guard is a reserve component of the Army with a primary mission to support the State of Texas. After initial training you serve one weekend a month and two weeks in the summer, with the chance of being called on to assist with state emergencies such as hurricanes, floods, pandemics, and civil unrest. While serving in the Guard you are able to have a full-time civilian career or go to school (with up to 100% tuition paid for) while still earning full-time military benefits from your part-time service.