Basic Mountain Warfare Course or Air Assault?

Having done both I will put it to you like this... AA is pretty easy to get most anywhere, several duty stations have there own AA schools on post, MTN warfare gives you a unique opportunity. As a 1SG in 10th Mountain it was actually difficult to get my Soldiers slots for that school, and watching that course develope the last 15 years I was in I was extremely impressed with the level of professionalism put forth by the instructors and the course material was helpful. Taking what you might call a refresher, the sub terrain, training was actually valuable my last tour to Afghanistan in 2010... So really if you have the opportunity seize it and work yourself to an AA slot in the future. Just my opinion, but having been in the position to sit in boards and select Soldiers for promotion... It is my suggestion to you. Hope my rambling helped.

Mountain warfare! Everything you need to learn about sling load and air assault Ops you can easily learn from the manual. Mountain warfare school requires hands on learning and is practical in more situations than air assault or sling loads ops

Mountain warfare is harder to get into and more elite. Especially because I hear through an AG friend they are going to authorize the rams head badge, supposedly the CSA already signed off on it. You can get to air assault from Hawaii, Drum, Campbell, Bragg, or a few other places. Or even do it as a re-up thing, mountain warfare you really can't.