Posted on May 15, 2019
Fort Bragg is shutting down its air assault school
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In the early 70's at Bragg, I don't think the word, "Air Assault" was invented yet, we did ride UH1's all over the place.
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PO1 John Johnson
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PO1 John Johnson - I have Norwegian, Scottish, German, I think a dash of French. My wife, I am not sure of her lineage.....but our daughter sure is a firecracker
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I'm sure it was a fine school, but if it was staffedwith BMM then I think it's probably a good thing it's being closed. BMM means all those outstanding NCOs who were the cadre of trainers were actually on the books as squad leaders or otherkey leadership positions in units. So those units are doing without them. That definitely has a negative effect on the units readiness.
We didnt have AAschool when I was there, but we lost soldiers to recondo school, the marksmanship team, the boxing team, and many other BMM taskings that werent as glamorous
We didnt have AAschool when I was there, but we lost soldiers to recondo school, the marksmanship team, the boxing team, and many other BMM taskings that werent as glamorous
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SPC Todd Bastin
When I attended in 1995, they sent a team of instructors down from Ft Campbell. God forbid if you were from 82nd. Those guys got smoked worse than everybody else.
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