SSG(P) Private RallyPoint Member 1286216 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I requested a slot for airborne school and I also tried to reenlist for it, but I was denied both times. What are my chances of getting a slot after I get to Ft Bragg? 2016-02-07T10:58:57-05:00 SSG(P) Private RallyPoint Member 1286216

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I requested a slot for airborne school and I also tried to reenlist for it, but I was denied both times. What are my chances of getting a slot after I get to Ft Bragg?

2016-02-07T10:58:57-05:00 2016-02-07T10:58:57-05:00 SGT(P) Private RallyPoint Member 1286229

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>If you go to one of the BCTs your chances are extremely high. Now if you go to one of the CABs units like myself you won&#39;t go at all since we don&#39;t have Airborne Slots and are not on jump status.

2016-02-07T11:02:42-05:00 2016-02-07T11:02:42-05:00 1SG(P) Private RallyPoint Member 1286234

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Well if you are on orders to Bragg, you will go to Airborne school. When are you reporting? You can talk to your unit and try to get it TDY in route to bragg. You would just need to amend your orders.

2016-02-07T11:04:41-05:00 2016-02-07T11:04:41-05:00 SGT(P) Private RallyPoint Member 1286237

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Yes very dependent on your unit. Re-enlisting doesn&#39;t always work because many factors come in to play like MOS, strength for your rank across the army and class availability

2016-02-07T11:05:11-05:00 2016-02-07T11:05:11-05:00 MAJ Javier Rivera 1286274

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Contact your branch manager and ask him to pinpoint you on assignment with a USASOC unit to the earliest possible. If not you could be assigned to anything FORSCOM which could reduce your chances.

2016-02-07T11:19:51-05:00 2016-02-07T11:19:51-05:00 SSG Private RallyPoint Member 1286322

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>My advice is to go special operations. SF, MISO, or CA, you&#39;ll get the wings because it&#39;s mandatory.

2016-02-07T11:32:32-05:00 2016-02-07T11:32:32-05:00 SGT Del Lavature 1286355

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>About 100%

2016-02-07T11:47:24-05:00 2016-02-07T11:47:24-05:00 LTC Private RallyPoint Member 1286627

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>You tagged 82 ABN so if 82 ABN it is highest than most places in the Army. It all depends which unit and if it is a coded slot.

2016-02-07T13:48:47-05:00 2016-02-07T13:48:47-05:00 MAJ Ken Landgren 1286629

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Go to a unit that has priority on Airborne School.

2016-02-07T13:48:55-05:00 2016-02-07T13:48:55-05:00 SGT Kristin Wiley 1286846

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>It&#39;s easier to get at Fort Bragg. When do you get to Bragg? Are you going to an airborne unit? If so, contact your gaining unit and request it enroute. Otherwise, once you get there look for slots in an airborne unit and see if your command will do a 4187 for a cross-post transfer to an airborne slot. You can also do a 4187 to request Airborne school once you get there, if you&#39;re not in an airborne unit. It&#39;s something you need to talk to your new command about, since you&#39;ll need their support either way.

2016-02-07T16:09:10-05:00 2016-02-07T16:09:10-05:00 LTC Private RallyPoint Member 1287029

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>100%. You do not want to be a leg.

2016-02-07T18:26:23-05:00 2016-02-07T18:26:23-05:00 SFC Private RallyPoint Member 1287040

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Most of the answers here are grossly inaccurate...<br />You will not be assigned to any SOF slot without already being Airborne qualified. In fact, you will need to be Airborne qualified, 100 GT, and a Secret Clearance. The same thing about being Airborne goes for the most of the 82nd; you won&#39;t be placed in a Parachutist position without being qualified. Since it&#39;s not a Parachutist position, there won&#39;t be an authorization for Airborne School. Also, you don&#39;t have any choice as to which unit you go to. There are a lot of non-Airborne units at Bragg... ADA, COSCOM, 18 Fires, CAB....etc. Also, your current unit won&#39;t send you TDY enroute because that would come from unit funds. You actually have a better chance of walking on to Airborne school if you were stationed in Benning. <br /><br />A while ago your MOS was overstrength which is most likely why your Airborne request was denied. <br />The best way to go about it is get your Airborne physical and contact your branch manager. As long as the strengths of your MOS at your skill level warrant a need for Airborne school, your branch will give you a slot TDY enroute.

2016-02-07T18:35:50-05:00 2016-02-07T18:35:50-05:00 SGT Craig Northacker 1287979

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>On the lighter side, during the fuel shortages in the 70&#39;s our jumps were reduced so the Air force had to put a bunch of C-130s on the tarmac at Pope to run the engines to qualify for the next period&#39;s fuel allotment. Logic as the sole source of divining what will happen in the military is a perilous road - but good luck! So, as active Airborne - we had trouble getting jumps in.

2016-02-08T11:03:19-05:00 2016-02-08T11:03:19-05:00 CW3 Private RallyPoint Member 1290058

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>After you get to Bragg you have a 99% chance to be an Airborne, I was a 15R Apache mechanic, people used to tell me that it was impossible for me to be Airborne with that mos, all that changed when I got to Fort Bragg, they want everybody to be airborne

2016-02-09T10:25:22-05:00 2016-02-09T10:25:22-05:00 LTC Paul Labrador 1290103

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>The Army is not going to send you to a school like Airborne unless you need it to do your job. You want a shot a jump school, get yourself assigned to a slot that needs jump qualification.

2016-02-09T10:41:26-05:00 2016-02-09T10:41:26-05:00 MAJ Tex Hall 1291298

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Keep pushing for it, take ANY school the Army offers you and do well at it. SGMs can make things happen!

2016-02-09T18:16:58-05:00 2016-02-09T18:16:58-05:00 MAJ Private RallyPoint Member 1291959

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>So long as you have a GT Score over 110, you can go to a USASOC unit. If you end up there you&#39;ll go for sure. Your odds of ending up in one of the 82nd BCTs are much lower because the quantity of units on Bragg requiring mechanics are high. Your better off following everyone&#39;s advice and get yourself pinpointed to USASOC. They can only tell you no.

2016-02-09T23:22:07-05:00 2016-02-09T23:22:07-05:00 SGT Private RallyPoint Member 1299850

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>It is high, but not guaranteed. Realize there are many organizations that have few or don&#39;t have P slots - 18 Fires, 82nd Sustainment, EOD. It is easier to REQUEST jump school once you&#39;re there, though. Just because you&#39;re going to Bragg, does NOT mean you&#39;re going to jump school. That&#39;s completely extreme and therefore false. As many have said, Bragg has many SpecOps organizations that would highly support such ambition. I got jump school while assigned to EOD at Bragg. The company had NO P slots.

2016-02-13T11:18:16-05:00 2016-02-13T11:18:16-05:00 SFC Private RallyPoint Member 1300140

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Check for an Airborne slot with your branch manager and then you should be able to get an Airborne School slot.

2016-02-13T14:07:59-05:00 2016-02-13T14:07:59-05:00 SFC Wesley Arnold, Jr 1300411

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I&#39;ll try to simplify this for tons of posts ... If you have orders to 82nd ABN DIV your chances are about 85/15. If your orders are to 19th Replacement your chances drop to less than 50/50 as a lot of units have lost Airborne slots or Jump status.<br /><br />One other option knowing which units have slots for your MOS and jump to ask for a letter of acceptance. For example 16MP BDE as a whole is not on Jump status, but some of their subordinate company still jump.

2016-02-13T17:30:06-05:00 2016-02-13T17:30:06-05:00 SP5 Micah Ilowit 1308556

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I requested to go to Bragg after 9/11. Initially I was going to have to extend my enlistment to get Airborne School, but I ended up in 3 SFG (A) and they have their own separate budget so I was sent to Airborne school without having to extend. Like SGT Evans said, I imagine that as long as you&#39;re in a unit with jump status you&#39;ll get sent to airborne school one way or another.

2016-02-17T02:35:28-05:00 2016-02-17T02:35:28-05:00 SFC Private RallyPoint Member 1315401

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>VERY GOOD. Fort Bragg is home to the Airborne and Special Forces.

2016-02-19T15:24:14-05:00 2016-02-19T15:24:14-05:00 SSG Private RallyPoint Member 1317894

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I contacted My Branch Manager. There was a shortage in all support MOS&#39;s. I had an ATRRS Reservation in four days. Now I&#39;m on my way to Alaska upon completion of Jump School.

2016-02-20T20:09:32-05:00 2016-02-20T20:09:32-05:00 SSG Jay OConnor 1331468

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Depends on if you go to a jumping unit or not but your chances are still much better just because you are right there

2016-02-25T15:13:45-05:00 2016-02-25T15:13:45-05:00 SFC Private RallyPoint Member 1380677

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I can say when i went to Bragg in 99 and in 2003 it was offered at reception. 9 times out of 10 if you make it to Ft. Bragg ( The best duty station on earth ) you&#39;ll get a slot.

2016-03-15T11:32:44-04:00 2016-03-15T11:32:44-04:00 MSG Dan Castaneda 1574827

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>If airborne school doesn&#39;t work out. Ft. Bragg has an Air Assault school

2016-05-30T01:55:13-04:00 2016-05-30T01:55:13-04:00 SSG Private RallyPoint Member 1612865

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Depends on the unit. I&#39;d personally be more specific than just going to an Airborne installation or unit. Just because it&#39;s Bragg or 82nd, doesn&#39;t GUARANTEE you an Airborne slot. Granted, having completed an assignment to Bragg in 08&#39; to 12&#39;, your chances of going to Airborne School is HIGH lol. Units there are always looking for Airborne qualified personnel, or people willing to volunteer for Airborne School. Especially if you&#39;re also qualified Jumpmaster, which is not the case with you. Nevertheless, it&#39;s very competitive. It can take you months for a slot, so don&#39;t hold your breath. Just ensure you have a packet ready and you meet the physical demands and prerequisites, once you arrive to your gaining unit.

2016-06-09T12:42:47-04:00 2016-06-09T12:42:47-04:00 SGT Drew Clark 2287097

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Pretty Good, if you end up in a Unit that has jump slots, and it helps if you are High-Speed!

2017-01-27T01:30:44-05:00 2017-01-27T01:30:44-05:00 SGT Tony Greene 3252815

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Chances are high if theirs a need for your MOS in the division.

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