Admin supp jobs in army get respect?

Don't listen to the negative stuff above. Female Soldiers do have it harder in some ways, because there are a lot of messed up worthless females in the military, but there are messed up worthless males too. The best way to gain respect for yourself and your gender is to do your job competently, professionally, and without complaint. Earning an expect rifle badge for your dress uniform and scoring high on your fitness test will help to.

No one expects you to be a combat killer as a 42A. You will be respected and liked by your peers so long as you ensure that Soldiers get paid, get their bonuses, and have their paperwork together so they can get promoted and go to schools.

Remember that being unlikely to see combat is never an excuse to be unable to perform essential tasks all Soldiers need to know; competency with your weapon, basic first aid, military communication, etc.

Theres always many reasons why a person would not join the army, and it isnt always danger and death either. Being in the army is a whole new different lifestyle. Many army service men and women are honored for their bravery and patriotism, especially by the media, yet that does not necessarily make it a great and wonderful job. As a former infanteer, I know what the conditions were like on the inside. Its not the same as you see it in the movies. You are always told what to do, you serve politics and there are always the chance that you end up fighting on the wrong side, its hard on the body, and for my particular profession, if you don't have the heart to kill another person under orders, then it is not for you. Theres a fine line in ethics in the military, and when it all comes down to it, the politicians determine the ethics for you. While death and danger is indeed a common fear, there are more to the army than such things.

Specific to your question: Women in the Army tend not to get much respect until they get rank, and then they're just hated. It mostly has to do with 'certain females' causing massive amounts of drama and using their status as 'female' to demand special treatment. Didn't get a good review? Sexism! Punished for showing up late to work? Sexism! Unfortunately you can't write it off as a 'small percentage' of females in the Army, as the mindset is contagious among lower enlisted.

Bear in mind that what you sign up to do in the Army is no promise you will do that job. You'll be graded as if you were doing that job for promotion opportunities, but few people in the Army outside of infantry and military police actually do the job they signed up for on a regular basis. You will do whatever your unit needs you for, regardless of your qualifications. A chemical soldier may get to spend one day a month checking gas masks and radiation equipment, and the rest of the month he is just another unskilled laborer. Other branches devote the time to training you that they would be wasting resources if they had you doing 'generic unskilled labor' when you could be doing your job.

Join the Air Force, Navy, Marines or Coast Guard. Their quality of life is exponentially better than that of the Army.

You do not want to join the Army. It will tear you down until you stop questioning orders, chew you up until you can't bleed any more for your country, then throw you away if your existance becomes less than convenient. An old Army slogan used to be "We do more before 9AM than most people do all day." The modern version: "Our gate guards get paid more by 9AM than we do all day."

Medical care is a factor I use to demonstrate the differences.

In the Air Force, your doctors are highly paid civilian contractors. There is a long and highly competitive waiting list to work for the Air Force as a doctor and the quality of care shows. To join the Air Force as a doctor, you have to already be established with a track record of success.

In the Navy, your doctors are actual Navy personnel. They will take care of you because you're a fellow seaman. They put on the uniform, take the PT test and fire their rifles the same as everyone else, so they know what you do on a daily basis and are going to ensure you get proper time to recover if you get hurt. Marines get to use Navy doctors.

In the Army, your doctors fall into two categories. Since the Army pays very little, you have either foreign nationals on work visas or doctors who track record is so horrible no civilian establishment would hire them (Army doctors can't be sued for malpractice no matter how badly they screw up).

The other branches of the military care for their people, seek to advance them and leave them better off than when they first joined. The Army just wants to bleed you dry and throw you away. Remember that "Veteran" is not a protected class under Equal Opportunity laws, and employers generally view Army service as a negative factor.

There's a hierarchy.

1. Infantry

2. Other maneuver combat arms

3. Supporting combat arms (artillery, combat engineers)

4. Outside the wire Combat Support (MPs/Transpo)

5. Everybody else

You're kinda near the bottom but as long as you're personable and have a good attitude, no one is going to give you any grief.

Well you're a female so...It's not like your a pussy for taking a desk job when you could be infantry. It's kind of expected?