Please do tell us how it goes for you and good luck!Wow! Best of luck! I may be back to report how it goes, depending. I'll be out either way before the end of July!
Please do tell us how it goes for you and good luck!Wow! Best of luck! I may be back to report how it goes, depending. I'll be out either way before the end of July!
& thank you!Please do tell us how it goes for you and good luck!
My son did AA at West Point (USMA cadet). He said it wasn't too hard, but I think that is all relevant to your skillset. My daughter, a Syracuse ARTOC MS2 Cadet, was just selected by cadre to go to AA and got Ft. Benning. Trying to give her advice and help her prepare. She really wants to pass and not disappoint her cadre. Does anyone have any advice that I could give her on training and preparing for the written test? She did buy summer OCPs, new high quality boots and these really expensive thin socks.
That's probably her biggest weakness because she's only 5'4" 120lbs. She does ruck with the fastest group though and she's a pretty fast runner. Hopefully, that will help her with endurance.Start training for a timed 12 mile road march.
The best thing she can do to train for ruck marching is core weight training.That's probably her biggest weakness because she's only 5'4" 120lbs. She does ruck with the fastest group though and she's a pretty fast runner. Hopefully, that will help her with endurance.
Your comment about the course being more laid back at West Point is nonsense. Not even sure where such an idea would have gotten cooked up in your mind. West Point does not put its thumb on the scales to pass more cadets. You will pass or fail on your own merits. It is an Army school, not a West Point school.Air Assault
Have the option to go to ASSLT at USMA or Ft Campbell. Is one preferable over the other? Would be pretty cool and I’m assuming more of a challenge to do it at the home of the 101st, while West Point may be more laid back even though their instructors are from Campbell. Figuring they may just be erring on the side of passing all the Cadets at West Point.
Your comment about the course being more laid back at West Point is nonsense. Not even sure where such an idea would have gotten cooked up in your mind. West Point does not put its thumb on the scales to pass more cadets. You will pass or fail on your own merits. It is an Army school, not a West Point school.
For those of you who will be going, put in the work on sling loads. As another post indicated, it is definitely the hardest part of the school. In my years in the Army, it was the only practical test that I actually studied for (sling loads). It is also a physically demanding school - more so than Airborne (I have done both).
DS did Air Assault at Fort Benning. Fail numbers were pretty consistent with the numbers you read.That's probably her biggest weakness because she's only 5'4" 120lbs. She does ruck with the fastest group though and she's a pretty fast runner. Hopefully, that will help her with endurance.
You get to see a different post and take a course with "real" soldiers. techzpod download mobdroI still remember going to Campbell O Club with all my cadet buddies and having a great time.