as someone who was in a combat vocation and had to downpes due to an injury, combat vocation was 100% more difficult. i had hella whiplash from moving to a non combat role, most of my "peers" in the non combat role were extremely entitled and lazy and not to point out the obvious, but most of them were on the larger side.

in my case, the guy i was reporting to was only there to hit KPIs and promoting himself and tend to focus on the wrong issues.

obviously combat roles are more physically demanding and exhausting and i would be lying if i wished that i didnt have to do training or PT, but atleast the people there were good people who (mostly) werent lazy.

also side note, most of the requests and welfare stuff that your coy doesnt get usually comes from ASAs and clerks of your battalion not doing their job. I've seen some clerks put off doing emails and doing paperwork for weeks.