Does an Air Assault or Airborne badge help Officers get promoted?

Don’t know about promotions, but we saw a concrete response to Air Assault Wings on ROTC Students requests for Air Assault School positions. When I was teaching ROTC at a State U, we couldn’t get enough slots at Jump School, but we’re turning back Air Assault slots.

I pointed out that we had six guys with Jump Wings, a couple Ranger Tabs, but no Air Assault wings, and volunteered to go to Air Assault school that summer, which solved the problem.

Stupid question from a CPT.

No. My experience with the Board was this: ALL they care about is whether the last 3/5, 4/5, or 5/5 evals have ACOM. That is IT.

It's just like Scouting. The more merit badges, the quicker one advances.

In the Air Force, it probably means the person is a graduate of the Air Force Academy. AFA Cadets have a chance to go to airborne school as one of their summer programs. AFA also has a skydiving team. They may be authorized to award parachutists wings. AFA grads already have an advantage for promotion, so I’m not sure the wings add much. Statistics show pilots do have a slightly higher promotion rate.

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Good question.
IMPO, nrither of those two mentioned qualification badges concmveys ot otherwise carries any additional weight to a DA promotion selection board. Those boards apparently look at an evaulate a candidate's overal recorod of branch-specific progression.

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From my perspective, at the bottom looking up and having been around a while (both the 82nd and the 101st), these popular schools most certainly help officers get promoted, but in particular way. The good OER is truly what matters, and completing the school is a small bullet on that OER. But, completing the school is likely the expectation and sets the tone for the relationship with the rater. It absolutely effects the overall view of the officer and thus their OER. Context would stipulate the degree of the effect.

It has been a few years since I retired. But manner of performance in key branch/nominated positions and central selected schools were important. However, I do recall officers that sat enlisted boards telling me those schools and awards were important to them.