I am a tanker who’s unit doesn't currently have tanks.So my unit is encouraging me to attend a school. What schools should I consider?

You can't go to Airborne School, you're not in an Airborne unit and your MOS generally isn't Airborne anymore.

Dont go to Ranger School, you'll get dropped because you have no clue what you're doing and your unit probably doesn't have a decent Pre-Ranger program for people like you.

Don't go to Sapper school, again, you have no idea what you're doing and your unit lacks an adequate trainup.

Air Assault school is a good base level, introductory school that has several locations, isn't hard to get, and they will teach you everything you need to know upon arrival.

Bus driver, fork lift operator, UPL, Field sanitation are all valuable skills that will be worth promotion points when you're trying to become a SGT/SSG and will make you an asset to the unit.

Most importantly, if you have time, start your college education

Okay Young Tanker, here is a story for ya… Summer of 93 my CO end up pinning another ARCOM on me for excelling at something and says something to the effect, “Sergeant Mac we have given you a couple ARCOM’s, a couple of AAM’s, the CG award and we got nothin else… do you want to go to college?” I told him I would, but I’m not eligible to reenlist for a few more years (at the time to go to college was an reenlistment incentive)… and he cut me off, sayin “I didn’t say anything about reenlisting, I said do you want to go to college!” When I said yes sir, he then told me I needed to get enrolled ASAP.
Well my TC, PLT SGT and all the way up my chain, figured I would head over to the education center and sign up for an 8-week semester with Central Texas College, right on Ft. Riley. When I showed up a week later showing that I was enrolled for 16 credit hours at Kansas State University in Manhattan, KS, I’m pretty sure the common phrase was “oh you sneaky little bastard”. Granted, I did have to kiss the backside of the Dean of Admissions just to get in, but 13-weeks later I finished up with a 3.8 GPA and made the Deans list.
The following year I got stationed in Korea for a year and knocked out another 86 hours via Saturday classes at Camp Casey and correspondence courses. All of this didn’t make me a better tanker, but it did set me up for future endeavors and made me really good when it came to playing trivia crack.

I've been stationed at Bliss in 1st AD, land of tankers. I've seen one 19K with jump wings. We're good friends but I think he managed his slot in his contract. Unless you plan on a reclass, you won't be much use to the airborne community as a 19K, from an objective standpoint. SFC (Join to see) made excellent points so I won't reinvent the wheel. I will say though, in addition to the schools he mentioned, if you can swing a HAZMAT course take it.

I haven’t read all the comments, but if you’re thinking that you’re not staying 20, or even if you are …. think of something that’ll give you a career when you get out. Some of us never planned to stay 20, while others planned to and didn’t for one reason or another…either way, set yourself up for success.

A tanker who unit don’t have tanks??? WTF

I don’t see much in your profile to help us, so my advice is general in nature. First take a little time to consider what you want to be doing in 5 to 10 years. Pick schools that will support those goals. Don’t discount skilled trades as a future employment in or out of the Service. If you’re a hands on kind of person, ask for diesel mechanic school, jet engine mechanic school, aircraft maintenance school. If you like building stuff ask for engineer school (combat or Corps of Engineers).

Another thought. What schools are located at or near your current post. If one seems like something you’d like, ask for it. The decreased cost (no TDY) will make it easier for your command to say yes.

College credit counts for promo points E-4 to E-5 and later. Go to a nearby college or Vo-Tec school. Learn something useful, like computers, electronics, welding, engineering, nursing/emergency medicine etc, and college chicks 101 ain't bad either. And it gets you off post.

Often they will pay for it, and/or you can use parts of your GI BIll. Usually the Army will pay for it while you're in. Not sure how thing have changed since I was in ,but look into it.

Well, I've read a couple comments here and they are solid. As a tanker, your battalion won't waste money to send you to airborne or Ranger school. In the early days, major Army installations had their own Air Assault schools, it was easier to then. But in all honesty, still not sure they'll spend the money to send you.
For advancement in Armor, you need to be sucking up as much civilian education as you can right now. You need to stay ahead of the game to be competitive against those support and admin MOS's who don't go to the field. Study for the Excellence in Armor program and take the test. Work on doing soldier of the month boards, then quarter working up to Post boards. And of course your job as a tanker. You want to fast track as much as you can. When you make SGT/E-5, push for Audie Murphy. That there if your accepted will put a huge check mark to your name.
I've been retired now for almost 10 yrs so a lot has changed. I'm not even sure how correspondence courses work now in making promotion points. Promotion points system changed about 5 times while I was in. Good luck young Padawan.

OH!!! Go searching for a metal oil can spout. It's save you lots of pain when adding oils to your beast. Also buy your own vampire. They aren't expensive.

I personally would never discourage a young soldier from going to Ranger School, no matter what their MOS is. Yes there will be a learning curve, but there is nothing a Ranger Handbook, tenacity, and finding the resources you need to teach you what you don't know before you attend can't handle. Thier is a myriad of "prep courses" available online you can follow to ensure you are in the physical shape you need to be in to be successful. Grit, determination, and a never quit under any circumstance mindset isn't taught. You either have it, or you don't.

Ranger School is a leadership school that uses patrolling and battle drills as its teaching methodology, and sleep deprivation, time constraints, and minimal food rations is used to amplify the stress. It's open to ALL MOS's and has been successfuly passed by many in your same position. Earning your Tab will get you promoted ahead of your peers throughout your career.
Telling someone they'd fail because of XYZ is not advice I'd give to any young soldier. Instead, I'd advise them of what it entails, guide them to the resources that will aid to their success, teach, coach and mentor them.
Good leadership encourages soldiers to push pass their perceived boundaries, and set them up for a successful career. Weak leadership tells others they can't do it or won't make it, based on thier own personal perceived limitations.
If I woukd have listened to leadership who said I wouldn't make it, I wouldn't have went to SF selection(SFAS). Instead, I proved them wrong and spent my last 15 years in 3rd SFG(A) as an 18E.
Dont ever let anybody ever tell you that you can't achieve your goals.
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Ask if you can go to Ammo Handler or the Armorer course. These skills make you critical to your unit when it comes to helping with all ranges (small arms or gunnery) and maintenance/accountability of weapons and sensitive items. You can also build on the Armorer skills into full fledged gunsmithing skills, which make you a force multiplier later in your career, if you ever decide to go to SFAS and become an 18B, and in the civilian world for a variety of companies whether private security contractors, firearms manufacturers, or yourself. Begin with the end in mind. Would you rather handle piss bottles as the unit drug test guy or be an expert with weapons and ammunition, which is in line with your MOS and why you came into the Army?