Posted on Jul 1, 2018
What are the best ways to prepare for Air Assault School 30 days out?
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11B: Infantryman
Air Assault School 11B: Infantryman
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-Practice climbing a thick rope, without knots.
-Continue to make sure you're in great shape.
Otherwise, you'll be fine. In my opinion, the toughest day was the very first day ("zero day"). Everything after that was simply a matter of paying attention to detail and hanging tough through the road marches.
-Continue to make sure you're in great shape.
Otherwise, you'll be fine. In my opinion, the toughest day was the very first day ("zero day"). Everything after that was simply a matter of paying attention to detail and hanging tough through the road marches.
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CPT Lawrence Cable
A good portion of my class had issues with Sling Loading, which is certainly the most academically and hands on difficult part of the course.
The only person we lost that got beyond Zero Day and the Sling Load was one E-6 that was petrified of heights. I don't mean not comfortable with heights, I'm not fond of looking over the edge of the tower or out the door of a helicopter either, but petrified. As in froze up and couldn't execute. He was on his third recycle with my class. I have to give the guy an At Boy for having enough balls to try the third time as something that scared him that bad, but after three tries, it's time to move on.
The only person we lost that got beyond Zero Day and the Sling Load was one E-6 that was petrified of heights. I don't mean not comfortable with heights, I'm not fond of looking over the edge of the tower or out the door of a helicopter either, but petrified. As in froze up and couldn't execute. He was on his third recycle with my class. I have to give the guy an At Boy for having enough balls to try the third time as something that scared him that bad, but after three tries, it's time to move on.
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Your an infantryman so I doubt you’ll have any issue with air assault school. If you’re in decent shape and can climb a rope I wouldn’t sweat it. People normally have issues with the packing list, layout and identifying the deficiencies with the A22 cargo bag.
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attention to detail during the sling load portion of class will help you and make sure you ask questions if you dont know what is being asked and also refer to the handbook that is issued to you at the beginning of the class.
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I would say climb a rope but make sure you can do it while you're tired. When I ran Air Assault PT at my unit at Fort Campbell, I would do the Obstacle course but start with 2 mile run first then light smoke session before we started the tough one. Make sure you have conditioned boots for the ruck. If you make it past day 0 pay attention to detail. It's not a hard school of you pay attention and stay after for the things you dont understand. AASLT
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11 days but day 0 is a all out smoke session for the day being smoked going in the gate, running your 2 miles, and getting smoked for over an hou or so and then doing the o course . I did this with a lower back injury but was able to get through the school with out any issues.
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