What is 27D AIT like? What's hard, and how many tests are there? Are there any study resources available?

SPC Private RallyPoint Member — Sat, 06 Apr 2024 21:51:16 -0400

Hi hello! I would like to know how 27d AIT is like? I am reclassing. I would like to know what’s hard and what’s easy. What’s was the struggles and was not. How many test are there. Which was difficult? How many test are open notes.
Any website or video I can study off of?

Response by SPC Private RallyPoint Member made Apr 6 at 2024 9:52 PM

SPC Private RallyPoint Member — Sat, 06 Apr 2024 21:52:34 -0400

I’m studying criminology about to finish my associates I am reclassing from a 91B hopefully to this. I just hit the mark to reenlist, extend or reclass. Really want a job where I can expand my knowledge.

Response by COL Randall C. made Apr 7 at 2024 9:20 AM

COL Randall C. — Sun, 07 Apr 2024 09:20:25 -0400

The Army recruiting videos* generally give a "one over the world" of the MOS as well as interviews with some of the Soldiers in that MOS.

Specific to your question about AIT, if you use the search bar above, you'll come across a few previous conversations asking very much the same things you are asking now. One response from a PFC Private RallyPoint Member* gave a good writeup from his view while going through AIT.

The JAG's school's Training Developments Directorate publishes a trifold* and other materials on their website (https://tjaglcs.army.mil/ncoa - look at the approved task lists under the 'resource' heading under 'references') that shows a lot of the material that will be covered in AIT.
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* Army 27D Recruiting video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yohf0Aw7yNI
* https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/what-should-i-study-before-i-get-to-27d-ait
* 27D Trifold - https://tjaglcs.army.mil/documents/35956/39067/Trifold+for+Task+LIst+%28v5%29.pdf/

NCOA - Resident, Online, 27D AIT - The Judge Advocate General's Legal Center & School -...

The Noncommissioned Officer Academy (NCO Academy) at TJAGLCS is an integral part of TJAG’s “One Team” vision of combining all of the Army’s legal training at one location. The NCO Academy trains paralegal NCOs of all components: Active, Reserve and National Guard. Having been previously located at Fort Jackson, South Carolina and Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, the NCO Academy was established in Charlottesville, Virginia on June 17, 2004....

Response by SPC Private RallyPoint Member made Apr 7 at 2024 9:02 PM

SPC Private RallyPoint Member — Sun, 07 Apr 2024 21:02:12 -0400

It's been awhile since I went to AIT, heck back then it was still called Fort Lee (now Fort Gregg-Adams). If it's still the same you'll spend 10-11 weeks with Juliet Company, 262nd Quartermaster Battalion studying the UCMJ and how to process Nonjudicial Punishments (Article 15's), Letter of Reprimand, Administrative Separations, and Court-Martial's.

If I remember correctly there is PT every morning, weekends you have some free time but you may find you need to study, and that there are tests every week until graduation.

You should conduct a JAG FTX (JAGX) which will reinforce basic Soldier skills and tasks as well as test your military legal knowledge and you will visit the JAG Regimental Home (Legal Center and School).

Hard part, a lot of reading and memorization. As for difficulty... That depends on your reading comprehension and retention of knowledge. Just like any MOS there are those who fail to become qualified. If it's still the same way you get 2 chances to pass a test before being recycled, and then if you fail again you will have to choose a different MOS.

Like every other MOS you will not learn everything you need to know or become completely proficient at AIT. Afterward you will be assigned to an OSJA (Office of the Staff Judge Advocate), a Brigade Legal Office, a Legal Operations Detachment, Legal Assistance Office, Trial Defense Services Office, or similar military legal section where you will continue to improve your skills.