just wondering if anyone can tell me......................?

Question

after talking to recruiters and what not, i decided to browse through and see if there were any other jobs that interested me in the army. i'm joining regardless, but i'd like to go in and do something i'm going to like at the least. well, lucky me, i found the PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS SPECIALIST!!! the description suits me well. (and that was my major in college before i dropped out). so my question is, is there anyone who has any familiarity with this occupation? i.e. experience or knows someone who has done it? and how did you like it, and what was it like. (well 3 questions rolled into one). thanks for your help!!!

Answer 1

In a nutshell, you will be developing and deploying various projects designed to "mentally defeat" the enemy.

Examples:

In Panama, PsyOps units surrounded Noriega's hiding place with speakers and blasted loud music at him, hoping to get him to give up.

In Vietnam, Korea, World War II and the Gulf wars leaflets were dropped by aircraft urging enemy combatants to surrender and avoid getting killed by US forces.

There are also operations to plant misleading or outright false stories in newspapers, websites, etc. to further weaken the enemies resolve, or, raise morale on our side (or our allies).

Depending on how much college you have, and your experience and class load you took, you could come in and apply for OCS (Officers Candidate School).

Good luck!

Answer 2

Vanessa, it really depends weather or not you will be enlisting as an officer or an enlisted person. regardless however, this field will put you up against a variety of thrilling situations if you like to help people with post traumatic stress disorder, seperation anxiety and/or those with a "death wish" that become a threat to their own team. patience is important, but even more so, the ability to be very observant and see through the lies you will be told constantly so perfectly good men and woman can be discharged or put on light duty for a false diagnosis. good luck, and thank you for your decision to Join the largest and most powerful employer in the civilized world. hooraahh

Answer 3

This is basically a PR person gone bad. Really. Psychological Ops is bring the bad guys in with out fighting. Broadcasting information, obtaining information (interrogation), getting into the minds of the enemy to try and figure out how they operate, so that fewer of our guys get killed.

Don't go in with just ONE job in mind. If you don't qualify for it, or the school isn't open when you to ship, you need to have a backup plan.

Thanks for thinking of us, and good luck.

Answer 4

can't say as i have any experience in psyops... but i DO know that specialist schwartz, aka skippy, was in that field. Skippy's list might show you a bit of the more casual side of the military, though it really can't tell you much about the psy op field.

as to psyops people i know, they do ALOT of flyers and posters, both in favor of our actions and against enemy actions.

Answer 5

First of all, and please forgive me for saying this, But GEEZUS-K-RIST are you gorgeous! that being said, I think that would be an excellent occupation to get into. maybe you can do to the enemy what they did to me back in "68"? regardless, good-luck, and God Bless hun. God Bless America, And Our Troops! 1st. Sgt., 7th Special Forces, (Ret.) Vietnam, "67"-"70"

Answer 6

PsyOps for the War Machine. Excellent choice.

Answer 7

Sorry, no info on this subject...but just wanted to say good luck and thank you for doing what so few us are willing to do.

Answer 8

Hats off to you for joining up, I wish you nothing but the best! =)

Answer 9

usaf is a better option, overall lifestlye is 20 times better than us army. more like an everyday job with same career fields.

Answer 10

Good luck!