How is reclass school different than initial AIT?

SPC Josh Tharp — Fri, 02 Oct 2020 18:18:09 -0400

Is reclass school the same as prior service AIT? Trying to gauge what to expect going to 42A school as a prior service and trying to learn the language.

I heard reclass school for 42A was 4 weeks? How is that if AIT is twice that?

Thanks!

Response by MSG Private RallyPoint Member made Oct 2 at 2020 6:19 PM

MSG Private RallyPoint Member — Fri, 02 Oct 2020 18:19:56 -0400

In a nutshell....the difference is how you are treated.

Response by SFC Private RallyPoint Member made Oct 2 at 2020 6:50 PM

SFC Private RallyPoint Member — Fri, 02 Oct 2020 18:50:39 -0400

Some Reserve component AITs are shorter than the AD version. Otherwise, schools are not shorter when you reclass. You are just housed separately from the IET students

Response by SSG(P) Private RallyPoint Member made Oct 2 at 2020 10:55 PM

SSG(P) Private RallyPoint Member — Fri, 02 Oct 2020 22:55:57 -0400

I reclassed to 42A in 2012. The MOS-T Soldiers are housed in a separate barracks, and with the exception of classes and the DFAC, are kept away from the IET kids. My particular class was all MOS-Ts (no IET kids) so they cut 2 weeks off the course.

Basically you will do PT at the barracks/unit each morning, then get released for personal hygiene, chow, and then to get yourself to class. You have class, break for lunch (if you have a POV, you can go to lunch wherever you want as long as you get back to class on time), back to class, and then once you are released from class, you are on your own until PT the next morning.

42A school is not difficult at all. Listen in class, take notes if you have to. It is very easy to succeed. I put in the minimum effort and got Honor Grad.

Response by SSG Private RallyPoint Member made Oct 3 at 2020 12:18 AM

SSG Private RallyPoint Member — Sat, 03 Oct 2020 00:18:02 -0400

I reclassed in the reserves from infantry to an engineer. Went to FLW. My cadre were MOARNG. We touched all the equipment that the AIT kids touched, but where they spent a week on a piece of equipment we maybe spent 3 days. So yeah, it was condensed. FLW is a tradoc post so we had to share a DFAC with AIT. Wasn't too bad. Also, you don't get treated like an AIT soldier. Your Cadre knows you're prior service and long as you conduct yourself as such, you'll be fine.

Response by SGT Private RallyPoint Member made Oct 7 at 2020 5:47 PM

SGT Private RallyPoint Member — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 17:47:45 -0400

Well, I can’t remember much from my experience. All I can say from my time that I went through it was more of basic knowledge of how to use Emilpo, wrinting memorandums, how to properly put together Awards packets for peacetime and wartime. Lot of admin corrections and just plain did through regulations.