Every army post has an armorer school, where someone else is trained to be the company armorer. In 21 years, I never saw a 92Y working as a company armorer. That does not include weapons maintenance, but the proper maintaining of a unit arms room. The 92Y gets 80 hours on Small Arms Maintenance Procedures. The 92A gets 26 hours on Food Subsistence because they are involved in the transportation, storing, and issuing of rations. The 92A gets 163.5 hours on Warehouse Operations, which includes instruction on GCSS – Army. The 92Y gets 79 hours on the Army Global Combat Support System (GCSS – Army). In AIT, the 92Y gets 111 hours of Basic Supply Principles, while the 92A only gets 16.5 hours in basic supply. Their AIT course subjects, both at the Quartermaster School at Fort Lee, Virginia, reveal the differences in jobs. The 92A is oriented toward maintaining stores of supplies, whereas the 92Y deals with individual soldiers in issuing material and maintaining accurate property accountability. They also maintain warehouses in forward support companies. They are assigned to company level in some units to maintain stock records and other documents such as inventory, materiel control, accounting and supply reports. At the lower level they unpack, and store supplies and enter items into a data base and issue the supplies to units.

MOS 92A Automated Logistical Specialist is more of a computerized warehouse soldier. Staff Sergeant Krystal Johnson, Company Supply Sergeant Every Brigade has an S4 Section with a Master Sergeant E8 92Y Supply Sergeant, and every division has a G4 Section with a Sergeant Major E9 Supply Sergeant. Every battalion has a logistics section (S4 Section), with a higher ranking 92Y Supply Sergeant. Every type of company in the Army, whether infantry, medical, administrative, whatever, has a 92Y Company Supply sergeant and an assistant. MOS 92Y Unit Supply Specialist is the basic corps job in army logistics, which is the Army’s life blood to keep operating. However, the other two, 92A Automated Logistical Specialist, and 92Y Unit Supply Specialist only scratch the surface of knowledge required in those two areas, especially MOS 92Y Unit Supply Specialist. They are 92F Petroleum Supply Specialist – they store and transport petroleum, 92L Petroleum Laboratory Specialist – the lab workers who test fuel, 92G Culinary Specialist – cooks, 92M Mortuary Affairs Specialist, 92R Parachute Rigger – pack parachutes, 92S Shower/Laundry and Clothing Repair Specialist, and 92W Water Treatment Specialist. There are nine different MOS’s (Military Occupational Specialty) in that corps, seven are very specific and they do learn most of the required skills in AIT (Advanced Individual Training). The Quartermaster Corps is one of those areas. However, many Army schools will continue to only familiarize new soldiers with most elements of a job, because the positions in which the soldiers may find themselves, are so varied and the required knowledge so vast it would not be cost effective to keep an individual in training that long. Armor and Combat Engineers are expected to follow. Infantry training has increased from 14 weeks, including basic training to 22 weeks, including basic training.

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This was originally published in The Belle Banner, Belle Missouri, on November 13th 2019.

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