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Thank you for your service Mr. W4. You were probably doing a high hover in UH-1B's when we were in kindergarden. These are reasonable questions, and I'll let some of the Nam veterans answer question one.
As to question two, I can state with authority that the Basic Airborne Course (BAC) has been taught under authority of the USA Infantry School by SF units on a case by case basis, outside of Ft. Benning, GA but under their Program of Instruction (POI). That POI included a "mobilization" training schedule that reduced the course to ten calendar days (typically two weeks, allowing for a weekend). "Tower Week" was eliminated, primarily due to the absence of 250' towers outside of Ft. Benning.
In the late 1950's and until the 101st Airborne Division deployed to Viet Nam in the mid 1960's, the 101st Airborne Division ran a "jump school" at Ft. Campbell, KY.
At recently as 1978~1979 the 10th SF Group (then at Ft. Devens, MA) ran a "jump school" at Fort Devens to get soldiers from their counterpart Reserve SF Group (the 11th SF Group, USAR) jump qualified during a single two week Army Reserve "summer camp." I was in the 11th SF at the time, and some of my troops went through the course.
So "I went to jump training at Bad Toelz, Germany in the 1960's" does not ping my "bullshit" meter at all.
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