Tex,
Don't worry about BAT. If a door bundle can do it, it's a fairly safe bet even a cadet can.

What happens if you college boys go to all these Army schools then flunk out of college?

scubasam, what "dive school" did you attend in Key West?

NousDefionsDoc...

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Sure, sure, all that advice is important.

But you MUST be able to master this;


http://vladiks.com/Misc/parachute.swf

Good luck!!!!!!

;)

Toby

Cadets - badges/schools
 

They like BPS, badge producing schools. At VMI, you can go to jump school, Air Assault School and SCUBA. You have to be contracted, so a few go between their 3rd Class and 2nd Class years (sophomore & junior), and some do it between their junior & senior years, but they also have "camp" at FT Lewis before their senior year, and in my son's case part of a summer in Germany.

I do not see the point in sending all these guys and gals to jump school. For the past 20 some years the watered that course down to a joke. PT standards have lowered, run times slowed down to 9 min miles, the gig pit removed. Most wil never serve in an airborne slot. When I was in the 82nd we would get Pvts straught from jump school who were freaking out of shape. Just annoys the hell out of me. WHY?

So the Army will have another recuriting tool, so more clowns can have something to sew on their BDUs and feel like a hero. Does the army really need another jump-qualified finance clerk?

Why not make it harder, really teach how to rig their equipment, add stuff like H2H . Combine it with Air Assault school the way they did glider training in the 40's.

It would warm the cocklels of my heart to hear a Blackhat say, "Listen up, we have too many studs in this class, we are doing PT until XX quit."

Its late,I'm ranting and thats my .02

I'm with ya Brother.





What's a cocklel?

Actually cockle.

From the Latin Coclea, winding cavity like a snail = one's deapest feelings or emotions.

I swear between you and AL, I'm gettin' a Harvard edumacashun here. :)

Well, I guess that you really don't want to hear how many went to CDQC school last year as cadets, or SFAS, where they took slots for the summer classes from kids who needed them.

TR

And to think I left after 2 years of college to go to Jump School and SFTG. What was I thinkin'? :rolleyes:
Oh! I know. Back then, those that went to Jump School, were there simply because they were going to an Airborne unit, SFTG, Rangers, Seals, ect. Where, being jump qualified was a prerequisite. Possibility, there may have been an Officer there, perhaps looking to pad his resume' or fill a space on his Dress Greens. Don't remember talking to any that were though.

Reaper, I'm not even sure I want to hear the details of what you just touched on.
WTH is going on? Never mind, dumb question.