Posted on Feb 28, 2023
What is Air Assault School like at Fort Campbell? What are some advice, tips and tricks?
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So me and my soldier are going to air assault school together I have some questions about it we are going to fort Campbell air assault school, I was issued the new airborne ruck at cif when I got here at fort Polk the packing list asks for the gen II mollie ruck, am I going to need that specific ruck or should I be good, and what is it like, do you guys have any advice, tips and tricks.
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AASLT is all about attention to detail. If they say Gen II, they mean Gen II. If they say l-shaped flashlight, they mean l-shaped flashlight. If they say running shoes, they mean running shoes. On day zero, 90% of those who were sent home were sent home because of packing list. Only a couple were due to failing physical requirements.
Throughout the course, about 95% of those failing out were sent home for attention to detail. Failed packing list / uniform; missed gigs on sling-load; showed up at wrong time; tied improper Swiss seat; failed tests; etc.
I was the least fit person in my course. I was literally the last person across the line on day zero who got in. I made it with a second and a half to spare. My 12 miler I made it with about 25 seconds to spare. The 4 mile run I fell back, but not out. And yet.....
Throughout the course, I was never the last one back when we had to run laps. I never quit when we got smoked. I never shirked my pull-ups on the way in or out. Etc. Physically, if you can make it through day zero, all you have to do from then on out I give it your best effort. That will be enough.
Throughout the course, about 95% of those failing out were sent home for attention to detail. Failed packing list / uniform; missed gigs on sling-load; showed up at wrong time; tied improper Swiss seat; failed tests; etc.
I was the least fit person in my course. I was literally the last person across the line on day zero who got in. I made it with a second and a half to spare. My 12 miler I made it with about 25 seconds to spare. The 4 mile run I fell back, but not out. And yet.....
Throughout the course, I was never the last one back when we had to run laps. I never quit when we got smoked. I never shirked my pull-ups on the way in or out. Etc. Physically, if you can make it through day zero, all you have to do from then on out I give it your best effort. That will be enough.
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There are no tricks. They run everywhere and do lots of pushups, fitness is the key. If someone is meeting minimum fitness requirements and can’t run, they may have issues. It is a Team sport with individual results, sone do not make it.
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One of the easier schools I have been too. Not sure about the ruck, but if you go by the list you can't go wrong. It's two weeks, borrow someone's gen 2 ruck. If their website packing list say gen 2, well...
Like most military schools I have been too, the cadre set the tone. There are 3 groups of cadre that classes rotate through. In my time, 1 group (my group) was gracious and did a lot of coaching, the other 2 (according to my Joe's and colleagues) were a little rougher to deal with and dished out more punishments. Either way, still an easy school. My advice is pay attention, study, don't be weak, and enjoy your time there.
The real challenge was trying to get distinguished honor graduate. It was damn hard getting perfect scores on all their written tests. I always missed 1 or 2. Well worth the achievement if you can make it though.
Like most military schools I have been too, the cadre set the tone. There are 3 groups of cadre that classes rotate through. In my time, 1 group (my group) was gracious and did a lot of coaching, the other 2 (according to my Joe's and colleagues) were a little rougher to deal with and dished out more punishments. Either way, still an easy school. My advice is pay attention, study, don't be weak, and enjoy your time there.
The real challenge was trying to get distinguished honor graduate. It was damn hard getting perfect scores on all their written tests. I always missed 1 or 2. Well worth the achievement if you can make it though.
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If you are in good enough shape to survive Zero Day, physically the course is not that bad, so I agree with you on that part. I'm an old timer and I didn't get the gracious group, but probably 90 percent of the class was grunts, so we didn't know the difference. We lost as many students to the academics has we did on Zero Day and I didn't get a perfect score either.
They take the last ruck march very serious. You need to have everything on the packing list and it was inspected twice, before and when you finish, or at least in the 80's. Not having the required load was an honor violation and bad stuff happened to you afterwards.
They take the last ruck march very serious. You need to have everything on the packing list and it was inspected twice, before and when you finish, or at least in the 80's. Not having the required load was an honor violation and bad stuff happened to you afterwards.
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