Posted on Aug 11, 2018
If you have earned both, which do you considered to be the most challenging badge to earn?
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I’m always intrigued by people’s thoughts regarding this. I did air assault first at Campbell and I believe air assault was more challenging. How about you?
Airborne School
Air Assault School
Paratrooper
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Fort Campbell
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Air Assault is a harder school, but airborne has more honor, prestige and esprit de Corps, especially if you’re in an ABN unit.
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The thing is, you don't just earn Airborne wings, you're airborne and you've got a different life in an Airborne unit. The two aren't really comparable.
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1SG Marc Jensen
There are still plenty of Airborne wearing non-Paratroopers. Airborne is still an incentive for Cadets and retention, not always tied to an Airborne assignment. The Army is now making a concerted effort to send Airborne qualified Soldiers to Airborne assignments, but this can also negatively impact Soldiers as they continually go from Airborne to Airborne assignments, especially low density Soldiers.
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Airborne is not an incentive for retention. Soldiers who reenlist for Airborne school will attend Airborne TDY enroute to an Airborne assignment. The same as Soldiers who request Airborne from their branch managers. ARTB has cracked down on the walk on policy and now requires ATRRS hard slots for Airborne.
The majority of P4J not serving in a Airborne position are IET students who were not assigned to Airborne and cadets who received it as an incentive.
The majority of P4J not serving in a Airborne position are IET students who were not assigned to Airborne and cadets who received it as an incentive.
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