The reality is he had been at the right place at the right time, resulting in him having to conduct the job of an infantryman. There I was, on my way to the supposed tip of the spear and this “POG” had already conducted three combat deployments and seen sustained combat operations. At the time (2005), he had already deployed three times to Iraq and had received two purple hearts for wounds sustained in combat operations. While in the course I ran into a buddy at a bar who attended basic training with me and later went on to be a JAG paralegal specialist. Upon return from basic training, advance training and airborne school I went to Special Forces Selection and soon after the Special Forces Qualification Course. It’s usually about right time and right place, not right MOS- When I entered into service, I started out as a non-combat SF support soldier.However, is this negative rhetoric warranted? Are “POGs” somehow lesser in their service than that of combat arms personnel? We say no, and here is why:
Combat arms personnel are often seen on social media talking down to “POGs”, defaulting to how their service somehow is less notable, dangerous or valorous than that of service members serving in combat arms positions. POG (person other than grunt/permanently on the ground), REMF (rear echelon mother f*&%er), FOBbit, non-com, leg, nonner, all used to describe non-combat arms service members.
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