Can Ordnance Officers be deployed?

Question

Hi, I'm 17. I'm planning on attending Norwich University and going for the Army ROTC program... I am interested in joining as an Ordnance Officer. If anyone can enlighten me about this, what is their day to day job and how much of a probability do they have of being deployed in action? Thanks : )

Answer 1

As a junior officer you are pretty much the same as a manager at Taco Bell, (I'm just using TB as an example so it is easier to understand). As you move up in rank your responsibilities grow, like going from store manager to district manager, to regional manager and so on.

As far as being deployed goes, hell yes. Their support the Air Defense Artillery, Armor, Field Artillery, Infantry, Aviation, Chemical Operations, almost every other branch of the Army except Finance, Civil Affairs and AG.





Ordnance Corps

Answer 2

You're talking about EOD... right? Explosive Ordnance Disposal. I personally know a few guys that are EOD, and they all deployed with my husband.



The answer to your question is yes, you will deploy if you are in Ordnance. Actually I think you'd be hard pressed to find ANY MOS that doesn't deploy, even support personnel deploy. Everyone deploys these days.



Deployments aren't the end of the world though, they suck, but you get through them.

Answer 3

When I was deployed, our maintenance support unit was run by Ordnance Officers, so yes you can definitely be deployed.



Ordnance Officers run maintenance companies and are assigned to many other types of unit.



Hope that helps.

Answer 4

Well since the place you use ordnance is the battlefield, I think the answer to your question is Yes.



Tell you what kid: If you don't like my answer then look it up yourself.

Answer 5

UMMMM, YES!!!!!