ROTC Cadet Airborne School

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My son is doing his airborne physical so that he can go to school this summer. He was selected. I'm just wondering as a contracted cadet will he get paid while he is in airborne school?
 
Yes.

Just tell him not to eat Pizza the night before a jump, in fact don't eat anything greasy like fast foods the night before. They spend a long time geared up before they actually board the plane and jump.
 
Yes.

Just tell him not to eat Pizza the night before a jump, in fact don't eat anything greasy like fast foods the night before. They spend a long time geared up before they actually board the plane and jump.

I thought schools or training had to be over 30 days long for ROTC cadets to get paid. Airborne is only 3 weeks.
DS attended Air Assault a few years back which is only 2 weeks and I don't believe he got paid. I could be mistaken.
 
I thought schools or training had to be over 30 days long for ROTC cadets to get paid. Airborne is only 3 weeks.
DS attended Air Assault a few years back which is only 2 weeks and I don't believe he got paid. I could be mistaken.

I can't remember how or from what type of account but I do remember him getting paid, not a lot but there was a payment. This was 2010.
 
I thought schools or training had to be over 30 days long for ROTC cadets to get paid. Airborne is only 3 weeks.
DS attended Air Assault a few years back which is only 2 weeks and I don't believe he got paid. I could be mistaken.

I can't remember how or from what type of account but I do remember him getting paid, not a lot but there was a payment. This was 2010.
Was the payment for travel? Or was AAS immediately before or after Advanced Camp? - meets the 30+ day requirement
 
This has absolutely nothing to do with jump school or cadet payment but... I thought of it as soon as I saw Jcleppe's comment about eating pizza the night before.

This quote is from one of my all-time favorite articles by Rick Reilly. The full article is here: https://www.si.com/vault/1999/09/20/266696/on-a-wing-and-a-prayer

"I was worried about getting airsick, so the night before the flight I asked Biff if there was something I should eat the next morning.

"Bananas," he said.

"For the potassium?" I asked.

"No," Biff said, "because they taste about the same coming up as they do going down."
 
DS's travel was paid for, not reimbursed. He did get paid for Advanced Camp or LDAC at that time.
 
My son did AF field training which was 21 days. He didnt get a paid a cent (which he knew). They did pay for his travel
 
Based on my review of the old W-2s my son received from DFAS, it appears he was paid for CULP and LDAC (the predecessor of Cadet Advanced Leader Course) but not for Airborne School.

This reminds me of something I hadn't thought about in a long while: his effort to get airborne was almost doomed at the very start. After I dropped him off at the airport, he was surprised to find out that HR had not arranged for his airplane ticket to Atlanta. Luckily, he had sufficient currency to purchase a one-way ticket. This foul-up may have made a strong impression on him, as some years later he successfully managed logistics for a battalion.
 
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After reading a few of these posts and realizing my own distrust in my memory, I seems that what ever payment the young lad did receive for Airborne must have been for travel. This just makes the old saying more relevant "Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most"
 
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