Comments on: Army Military Transition Teams Face Recruiting Challenges

By: Soilder

Soilder — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 02:00:44 +0000

I keep hearing about how this assignment helps officers as far as promotion what does it do for the NCO's? Plus they call giving you your choice of a return assignment that only consist of Divisional units. So what is the perk of a choice of returning to a Campbell, Bragg, Drum and so on? There is none, I am presently scheduled to go a team with and I see nothing that does anything for me on a return assignment. This is my fourth trip and I have guys who have not been once working with me that should have been picked for this assignment.

By: Brook

Brook — Fri, 09 May 2008 23:02:05 +0000

I agree with this article. My husband may be assigned to a MiTT team, and we are facing the same problem he refers to. Should I stay where I am, but keep the kids away from him three extra months while he's at Riley? Or do I PCS to Riley and wait in the middle of nowhere with no friends for a year?

I think his idea is great.

By: Crackus

Crackus — Tue, 06 May 2008 07:56:04 +0000

I can't help but wonder if the reason these teams exist is because we don't have enough Special Forces, who's mission it has been to train indigineous army and police forces. Isn't there something about doing a Special Forces mission without the special forces training that is rather distasteful? Aren't these guys huge targets riding around with amateur and untrustworthy Iraqi soldiers and policemen?

By: ONE Team

ONE Team — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:44:37 +0000

I just volunteered for this transistion team. I think it will be a good experience and also a good carrer move. I have already been deployed to iraq when the war first started so it isnt a big deal. My wife and kid will be back home with family and I got to pick my follow on assignment. I know people dont want to volunteer to go down range but it something that needs to be done. Either way we are all going to deploy one time or another, the question is do we want to have some control over it??

By: GI

GI — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:56:37 +0000

You are misunderstanding what I am saying. The PCS to Kuwait option is a band-aid to the problem.

By leaving your family at their home station and then the soldier travels to Riley, this means the soldier is away from their family for nearly three additional months before even deploying to Iraq or Afghanistan. Is it any wonder why people with families would not like to volunteer for this?

That is why I said by opening multiple training locations on popular installations that people want to be stationed at you would get more volunteers from people stationed on that post and from other people who want follow on assignments to that post. By basing the training solely at Ft. Riley is a major impediment to people wanting to volunteer for MiTT.

As long as it remains that way I expect that soldiers will continue to be forced to take the MiTT assignment which will only make it even more unpopular.

By: MAJ Alex Stephenson

MAJ Alex Stephenson — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:53:22 +0000

This article is incorrect. Transition Team members are given the option to PCS to Kuwait and leave their family at their previous duty station or move them anywhere in the US during the assignment. This option is well publicized.