SPC Private RallyPoint Member6888291<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Hello all and thank you for your insights and info on my previous questions. I want to maximize the experience I will be getting from my first (and possibly last due to ROTC when I come back) deployment as enlisted, and would like to partake and hopefully obtain Air Assault wings while in Afghanistan. What would be the steps I need to take in order to attend, if it is possible to do so?Is attending Air Assault school on deployment possible?2021-04-09T01:40:38-04:00SPC Private RallyPoint Member6888291<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Hello all and thank you for your insights and info on my previous questions. I want to maximize the experience I will be getting from my first (and possibly last due to ROTC when I come back) deployment as enlisted, and would like to partake and hopefully obtain Air Assault wings while in Afghanistan. What would be the steps I need to take in order to attend, if it is possible to do so?Is attending Air Assault school on deployment possible?2021-04-09T01:40:38-04:002021-04-09T01:40:38-04:00SGT Private RallyPoint Member6888304<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I have heard it be done before but most likely won't happen since it is not a major career advancement school. Now BLC or ALC most definitely would happen. Good luckResponse by SGT Private RallyPoint Member made Apr 9 at 2021 1:48 AM2021-04-09T01:48:59-04:002021-04-09T01:48:59-04:00SPC Private RallyPoint Member6888307<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>They were letting people do it in the CENTCOM AO until they closed everything because of COVID. Then they opened it up again to very limited numbers, kind of how they're doing everything right now. Good luck.Response by SPC Private RallyPoint Member made Apr 9 at 2021 1:54 AM2021-04-09T01:54:36-04:002021-04-09T01:54:36-04:00SFC Ralph E Kelley6888518<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>They used to just throw you outta the Chopp... Sorry wrong memory.Response by SFC Ralph E Kelley made Apr 9 at 2021 6:17 AM2021-04-09T06:17:58-04:002021-04-09T06:17:58-04:00SSgt Christophe Murphy6888961<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Things like that are just random happenstance and not something you can plan in advance. If the opportunity presents itself jump on it but life on deployment is pretty fluid and things happen and change on a daily basis in that environment. Op tempo is also a factor and it also changes from day to day.Response by SSgt Christophe Murphy made Apr 9 at 2021 9:50 AM2021-04-09T09:50:29-04:002021-04-09T09:50:29-04:00MSG Private RallyPoint Member6889055<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>You probably stand a better chance of attending AA school while in ROTC than you would trying to find a course being conducted in AfghanistanResponse by MSG Private RallyPoint Member made Apr 9 at 2021 10:43 AM2021-04-09T10:43:24-04:002021-04-09T10:43:24-04:00CW4 Anthoney Lowry6889140<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>our Battalion XO, left Afghanistan after 6 months to attend a school. the rest of us had to stay the full 12+ months. but he got to go home early. he got his bronze star, so did the next guy who took his place. but i highly doubt you will be afford the same luxury when you deploy. Did i mention the rest of us had to spend the entire 12+ months in Afghanistan?Response by CW4 Anthoney Lowry made Apr 9 at 2021 11:17 AM2021-04-09T11:17:33-04:002021-04-09T11:17:33-04:00CSM Danny S.6889598<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>They have 1 or 2 Air Assault Courses a year in Kuwait (Camp Buehring) but I can't see your command sending you to one of them from Afghanistan.Response by CSM Danny S. made Apr 9 at 2021 2:57 PM2021-04-09T14:57:27-04:002021-04-09T14:57:27-04:00SFC Casey O'Mally6889940<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>It is incredibly expensive to send you FROM deployment for AASLT. It would make no sense for a unit to do so UNLESS you were planning an actual aerial insertion, which is not bloody likely, if you are not already in an AASLT unit - in which case they would rely on the folks who are already AASLT qualified.<br /><br />So.... long story short, I ain't sayin' it ain't gonna happen. Just sayin' I don't think it will.Response by SFC Casey O'Mally made Apr 9 at 2021 5:31 PM2021-04-09T17:31:45-04:002021-04-09T17:31:45-04:00CW2 Private RallyPoint Member6894289<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>There's a lot better and more useful things to try and do than AASLT school. It's a badge, and that's about it. Try to concentrate on either obtaining more professional certs, maximizing PT, and college. AASLT, especially for an IT specialist, is essentially useless. <br />Do you foresee conducting a lot of air insertions? Slingloads? Calculating the amount of weight a helicopter can carry? Setting up a PZ?Response by CW2 Private RallyPoint Member made Apr 11 at 2021 3:17 PM2021-04-11T15:17:01-04:002021-04-11T15:17:01-04:00CSM Darieus ZaGara6897285<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>It does not seem likely that a Non-AA unit would allow a Soldier to attend during a deployment, there is no value added. You can ask, but don’t be disappointed. <br /><br />As stated by others, you have a great chance while attending ROTC during summer camp.Response by CSM Darieus ZaGara made Apr 12 at 2021 3:59 PM2021-04-12T15:59:10-04:002021-04-12T15:59:10-04:002021-04-09T01:40:38-04:00