AIRBORNE
Airborne School is a three-week school conducted at Fort Benning, GA, and is the most popular of all the special training courses offered. Instruction is broken down into three one-week phases, Ground Week, Tower Week, and Jump Week, and encompasses all aspects of jumping. In Jump Week, the student makes five parachute jumps at 1250 feet from a C-130 or C-141 airplane.
A cadet obtains a slot in Airborne School by virtue of his/her performance during the school year.
Minimum Entry Requirements:
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Army Physical Fitness Test : 80 points per event
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Army Physical within 18 months of class start date
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AIR ASSAULT
The purpose of the Air Assault Course is to train Soldiers and Cadets in Combat Air Assault Operations, Slingload Operations, and Rappelling. The course familiarizes trainee with the capabilities of Army aircraft, aircraft safety procedures, Pathfinder Operations and Aero-medical Evacuation. At the end of the course, each trainee will be able to demonstrate the skills required to make maximum use of helicopter in combat to support their unit operations.
Congratulation to Cadet Manning for returning to earn her wing!
Congratulations to Cadet's Winchester and Wilson!
MOUNTAIN WARFARE
Mountain Warfare School is a two-week course taught by the Vermont National Guard at Ethan Allen Firing Range in Jericho, Vermont. Both a summer and a winter phase are offered in addition to an assault climbers course. The training is designed to make you an expert in mountain operations. Mountain Warfare School is both physically and mentally demanding. Training is non-stop, 15 hours per day, for 14 days (each course). If you can carry a 65-pound rucksack up to five miles per day in mountainous terrain and are competent with both day and night land navigation you may have what it takes to complete this intense training.
ROBIN SAGE
The Robin Sage exercise provides cadets with an interest in Infantry and/or Special Forces an opportunity to serve as squad members within "G" bands. There are 15 "G" bands consisting of three to four cadets, 15-20 regular Army personnel and one "G" Chief. The "G" band conducts link-up operations with Special Forces Student Operational Detachment Alphas, receives specific training and conduct combat and sustainment operations.
Over a three-week period this program provides the cadets with opportunities to learn and grow as potential leaders. Areas to which cadets are exposed: Troop Leading Procedures, Mission Planning (Warning, Patrol and Frag orders), Small Unit Tactic (Raids, Ambushes, Recons), Air Operations (Drop and Landing Zones and Message pick-up), Basic Field Craft (Survival, Expedient Navigation), Demolition, Medical, Communications and Weapons. The location for this exercise is Camp Mackall, North Carolina.
Cadets are selected and assigned to available RS positions by their PMS.
CADET TROOP LEADING TRAINING (CTLT)
CTLT is a two track program (Platoon Leader and Internship). All CTLT positions are linked to a specific regiment of the Leader Development and Assessment Course (LDAC). As a result, attendance to the specific regiment is mandatory. The assigned regiment will not be changed to accommodate personal situations.
