The fear when on the first jump, the doors open and the sun light comes in and you going out that door soon. At Rochester Airport in the late 2000s, met 1SSF veteran who invented the feet and knee together. How? He was motion picture man and was filming the landings in 42 to find solution to broken legs.

Completed the school as a First Sergeant in 2008 while assigned to I&I STF 3D ANGLICO, Terminal Island/Bell, CA. Earned gold wings in 2009. Semper Fi and AIRBORNE!

Was unfortunately denied airborne due to a shoulder surgery I had years ago. Still, was able to get infantry and pray I earn my way into receiving other tabs and pins as an 11Bravo when I ship out. I’ll do what I can to earn my wings if possible one day since thats been my dream. Best wishes to those who serve our nation and thank you. Can’t wait to join y’all.

@NicolasMartin-fd1jl

7 ай бұрын

when do you ship out i’m also going 11b and ship out soon

@Tcomane

6 ай бұрын

It’s just a school not a job

@joshe7845

6 ай бұрын

Stay motivated and keep trying.

@maricebrown8961

6 ай бұрын

@@Tcomanebut it then changes the capacity of which you do your job in and it’s added training and a school you are sent to do pretty much every special operations job

@Tcomane

6 ай бұрын

@@maricebrown8961 depends on your job 😂you could be a 42alpha with jump wings guess who’s still in the s1 shop with wings it’s just school

Enlisted, then maxed their tests, sent to OCS, three years later was a captain, then they noticed and they said and so I "volunteered" for airborne. Okay! Got in the tower, half-lidded my eyes, so it's 2-d not 3-d so the jump does not seem so bad. The actual jumps were #1 Scary, but jumped anyway. #2 Still scary but jumped. #3 not so scary. #4 Smooth. I could look around. #5 Looking forward to hearing the birds and the train whistles and seeing all the sights. Wish it were a longer drop. So that's why there is so many drops. You are afraid, then you're not afraid but leery, then you think it's okay, then you are looking forward to the next one. Then it was over. I was prefix5 nuclear weapons, so not to go to an airborne unit. But I do miss it. I became a colonel, and strategic planner, and know that the history of airborne is that they lose a lot of people and so almost everyone has to go to the school to become backups, because they can't get replacements overnight. Anyway, I am glad that I went and think that it is something that one should do, although I saw some "wash out' and know that we all cannot do everything. So try anyway. And all my best to all the new troops. Airborne!

@bburn2000

2 ай бұрын

Thank you for your service. By “lose a lot of people,” do you mean because of attrition?

@williamheyman5439

2 ай бұрын

@@bburn2000 The history of airborne operations is that they lose a lot of people, both to the hazardous nature of the jump, but also to the fact that they are always in a very vulnerable position when they land, and they do not have the tanks and artillery. I was a strategic planner and know that they send a whole bunch of people to airborne school because they expect large losses. And they cannot be replaced overnight because it is weeks of training. I was on the test team for the first air mobile unit to replace airborne. We lost 4,600 helicopters in Vietnam so that was not any better than parachutes. In fact, if you consider the price of a helicopter, it was worse than dropping from airplanes (which usually survived, even if the soldier did not.) Anyway, it is very hard to write about actual war, end even harder to read, and no one wants to hear about it. No good can come about revisiting ole wars. Win or lose, you always lose.

If you made it thru basic and AIT, jump school is a piece of cake

Feet and knees together or you’ll be in here forever!!!!!!!!9 year Airborne Scout here 19D Delta with R designated (503rd, 173rd and the 109th attached to the 2 ranger battalion. Fun stuff. I’m 60 and still have dreams absolutely this stuff!

I remember during Basic Training at Fort Benning we were able to go to a 4th of July celebration near the base HQ and Airborne Towers. Seeing those Airborne towers for the first time was very impressive. We just stood there in awe of those towers.

graduated in september of 23, AIRBORNE

Airborne! My father in 1943, me in 1973... Demonstrate your ability to manage fear.

Air Assault, Ranger Regiment, PLDC, NBC Defense Course and SERE- Hi Risk , were great Military Schools, however, the Basic Airborne Course ( BAC) at Fort Benning ( Now Fort Moore) , Georgia, was really and truly Awesome Possum, and , I Myself, John Rodriguez, earned My Parachutist Badge. Thank You United States Army and Times Archives, From this United States Marine Corps and Army Enlisted Veteran.🇺🇸🇺🇲❤️♥️🪖🪂‼️

@MartyRodriguezOrthodoxMarine

7 ай бұрын

@JohnRodriguez-si9si : AATMFINGW, BROTHER !!!

@pfdrtom

5 ай бұрын

There is no way on God's green earth anyone who served in a Ranger Batt would say PLDC and the NBC course were "great". Which Batt in Regiment and when? You mention Air Assault but not Ranger school? Hmmm....something ain't right. I'm an old batt boy and somethings doesn't add up, buddy.

Any United States Uniformed Service Member Who Can Attend, Complete and Graduate From The Basic Airborne Course ( BAC) At The United States Army Airborne School In Fort Moore ( Formerly Fort Benning), Georgia Should Go And Get Their Wings, Especially If The Military Occupational Speciality ( MOS ) Requires Or Permits The Qualification of Static Line Parachuting.

@JohnRodriguez-si9si

7 ай бұрын

Amen and Roger That, Solid Copy, MARROD Actual. AIRBORNE : GOOD TO THE LAST DROP!!🪖🇺🇲🇺🇸🪂❤️

Born at BENNING, raised at BRAGG!! ALL THE WAY 🪂 HOO-AH!!

@yourstupidreporter2290

6 ай бұрын

BORN AT BRAGG STATIONED AT BRAGG

@MichaelSSmith-hs5pw

6 ай бұрын

@@yourstupidreporter2290 E-5 Sergeant M.S.Smith Iron Triangle Vietnam, 1969 A co. H-minus “Panthers” 1/505 Parachute Infantry Regiment 82 Airborne Division 3rd Combat Brigade Fort Brag,NC “It will ALWAYS be Fort Bragg!”

@MichaelSSmith-hs5pw

6 ай бұрын

@@yourstupidreporter2290 “It will ALWAYS be Fort Bragg!”

@taytayhello6084

2 ай бұрын

Well said Brother

@MichaelSSmith-hs5pw

2 ай бұрын

@@taytayhello6084 Thanks. All the way! 🪂🎖💜♠️🪖🇺🇸

Are yall ever gonna do a video on RASP?

A Co 307th Med Btn 82nd Abn, Ft Bragg. Jump school spring of '74 at Ft Benning.

They missed out on the 250ft towers...

Unsat! You only showed the 34ft tower. You need the free tower, the sawdust pits, the slt, and the shuffle at dawn. Now beat your boots then give me 20 leg.

Very nice picture in army 👍👍👍👍👍

Good Video.

1963 we jumped t-10s from C119s and the school was 4 weeks. Biggest change was the ladies sometime after 1965 C1-319 82 ABN DIV

@tomuss2082

8 ай бұрын

Jump school March 1965, C119. On to 82nd 1966, 1967.

@TheRacerbrown

4 ай бұрын

Same here, July/Aug 63, D Co., 2ndABG, 187th, 101st Airborne Div., 63-64.

Went in June of 89 and looking at the 34 ft towers brings back some great memories. Thanks Carlos Yelding (RIP) for insisting that I go the Airborne route.

I Support "our own military" no other

I like the soldier 🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷 brothers and sisters in america soldier help me from mwanza tanzania 🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿 beautiful country

Crazy i recognise some of the black hats. Lot of them are still there

Things have changed since July '79 when I was there. Female Black Hat.

@andyjankowski2702

3 ай бұрын

Bigtime went through in 98 and it looks like it got way easier

Are they doing a "6 thousand count?" Used to be 4...

@AltonJones-sh2sb

Ай бұрын

Well,I guess if you are jumping out of a helicopter nowadays, it's probably a 10-second count?😂😂😂😂.

this is my dream

Is the flexed arm hang still a thing?

@stephencardenas4098

Ай бұрын

I read if you fail the FAH, you go do an alternate event called the slip simulator

Seems like a very slow desent, we jumped T-10s.

Is there a rank minimum to be able to attend airborne school?

@suprasam98

Ай бұрын

no-but there is a wavierable max age.

AATW Brothers!

Where are the 250 foot towers? The 250's were worse then the actual jump. Getting pulled up slowly then bouncing at a stop. "Unhook your safety strap Airborne"....oh sh#t

ssg moe 🐐

They are only showing the fun part of airborne school - where’s the slam dunk and saw dust pits?

@jeradstephens752

2 ай бұрын

What is that? I leave for airborne at midnight lmao

포트베닝 포트무어 바뀌었네 미육군 뿐만 아니라 미해군 미해병대 미공군 위탁교육을 훈련을 받을까😂🤣🤔😨?!

El Charlie Instructor Infabtero del BIRIBRA Victor FAES de los 80's desde California dice Saludos camaradas de los Batallones Aerotransportados de El Salvador. PATRIA ,HONOR Y GLORIA ..

jump school March 66 now 78 still can do 40pushups n 8 pull-ups All The Waÿ 6:05

Biedni ludzie, wyprane mózgi !

Airborne school was to easy. This school needs to be much harder.

Miramar

U.S 🇺🇸 ARMY AIRBORNE SCHOOL US NAVY SEAL US MARINES MARSOC RAIDERS FORCE RECON US AIR FORCE PARARESCUE CCT SPECIAL RECON AIRBORNE TRAINING commissioned education training 😃😨🤔😀🤣?!

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Did I watch the instructor sharp the trainees in the first

@tyrone697

6 ай бұрын

Nah that’s just how they notify you that you’re good to go

Lebron James is the nba goat dude. PS: happy thanksgiving.

@esenciadelcaribe

6 ай бұрын

They all aim for the point of contact which is the buttocks. But he’s also an a-hole

it is a shame. They are cannon fodder

this video spends way too much time on the 34 ft tower (week 2). it looks however like they doubled that evolution instead of using the 250 ft canopy towers which were down for maintenance during class 31-95. the only part of week 1 they covered was standing in the door. they completely ignored in the pits and PT. at 5:11 the guy wearing the gold wings on his black instructor shirt appears to be a Marine SSgt but he does not wear the Army black hat. by comparison the T-11 parachute is superior to the T-10C in terms of ride but appears to descend more slowly. go ahead someone make a Foghat comment

Victor FAES dice Saludos Camaradas de la FAS.

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