Project GO or Sapper School

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Would like advice or thoughts on whether one should do Project GO study abroad year 2 or 3 or Sapper School, airborne, air assault. What is more beneficial for my career? All thoughts welcome
 
Sapper, hands down, irregardless of what your career goals will be. Going to sapper as a cadet is an invaluable, extremely rare experience, and outstanding leadership professional development.
 
You can go to Sapper after you commission but you only have the opportunity for Project Go as a cadet.
 
Your career — in and out of the military — will be long. There are benefits and advantages to be drawn from every experience, and it should come down to personal interests that consider the long and short term. So question is, which one of these do you find more enriching and unique for this time in your life? Which one will you look back at 10 years from now and say: That helped make me who I am today.
 
As for military schools being offered after commissioning, as the Germans say, “Jein”. Yes… and no.
When I went to visit my DD last year there were LTs in an airborne unit waiting for airborne school slots. For months. They were stuck in S-* shops waiting, and waiting… can’t be a line LT there without it.
Sapper is technical possible if you are not branched engineers, but I wouldn’t count on it being available if you are not. Many times getting a short fall for a school will depend on where you are assigned.
 
IMO it's about having the opportunity. I would suggest Project GO only because how often in life, military and otherwise, do you get the opportunity to live in another culture for 60 days, traveling, eating, speaking, learning, assessing, etc.

Again IMO it makes you a better Global leader and citizen
 
FtWorth dd Dad said:
IMO it's about having the opportunity. I would suggest Project GO only because how often in life, military and otherwise, do you get the opportunity to live in another culture for 60 days, traveling, eating, speaking, learning, assessing, etc.

Again IMO it makes you a better Global leader and citizen
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Having had 3 kids do 4 of these trips I wholeheartedly agree with you. They learn a language, are exposed to a different culture, and get to travel (although one son had a cadet classmate who stayed in residence each weekend with no interest to explore new places). All of which does like you wrote - make these future military members better global leaders and citizens, and broadens their minds and ability to accept that people do things differently.
 
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