I know about infantry, armor, field artillery, engineers, and my branch the Signal Corps, but how many others are there?
And which branches have the most and least command opportunities? A top and bottom five list will suffice.
Also, which branches are most represented among the generals?
Anonymous
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The Army has 24 CMFs (Career Management Fields) aka "branches"
http://www.goarmy.com/rotc/careers.html
The combat arms (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 19, and 18) will have the most command opportunities as will certain combat support CMFs (25, 31, 91, 92 and 88)
The least opportunity will come in 42, 74, 35, 56, 38, 63, 27, 62, 67, 65, 66, and 64
Which is why you see a lot of AG (42), 74 (CBRN) and 35 (MI) Officers in command of basic training units. For them any command is a good command.
For a combat arms officer a basic training command is the kiss of death (unless it is a second command - even then it isn't highly prized)
Edit:
Infantry, Field Artillery and Armor are where most Generals come from...mostly from Infantry and Field Artillery...those are the branches with the largest number of people and largest organizations
David Patterson
http://www.goarmy.com/careers-and-jobs.html