Is it possible to enlist in National Guard 11B and obtain Airborne in the contract?

Or skip all the bull and go active 18x from the get go, make it through the pipeline, grow a beard and do cool guy stuff.

I went to Airborne and Ranger (and many other schools) while in the Guard. If you want to go to airborne school as a Guardsman, then you need to be in an airborne unit. I believe all LRS companies have now been inactivated, however there are companies on jump status in Texas (and I believe still in Rhode Island, Indiana, and Georgia).

Try to get in a LRS unit and you MIGHT! Highly doubtful though. I was a 290-300 PT and I was still denied.

I'm going to fall in with the crowd that's telling you to consider active duty. I served in the Marine Corps, and after ward went to a reserve Airborne unit, and loved it so much I decided to go back to active duty, but went Army Infantry the second time around. I'm sure you're young if you're considering joining at this point, and 4 years +- seems like a long time, but take it from an old guy...it's not. Down the road when you're looking back it will seem like the blink of an eye, and you'll have a lot of great memories that you just can't get anywhere else.

In the Army Guard, you are not going to get Airborne school on an enlistment contract unless you are contracting for a position in an Airborne unit.
If you are talking about the Ohio National Guard, you can try to contract for the SF company, or try to get to the SF company after you get in.
If you pass SFAS, you will go to Airborne school prior to SFQC.

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If Infantry, Airborne and Ranger are your goals, you should consider Regular Army. All of those could be guaranteed in your contract, provided you qualify and a vacancy exists. You would be hard pressed to having anything but 11X guaranteed to you by joining the guard. What you have to understand is that when you enlist into the NG, you are enlisting into an actual unit. If its not an Airborne unit, they are not spending their limited funds on sending you to Airborne School just so you can earn a badge. Sure, it may be "possible" to get those schools later as a Private in the NG, but so is winning the Lotto. Your odds are about the same.

It is possible to get Airborne school while in the Guard. On occasion they do offer Airborne school to Guard soldiers but slots are rare. For one you have to have very good APFT scores. They are not going to send someone to Airborne if they have little chance of passing, and you do lots of running at Airborne. Another is when you are in the Guard you are "on loan" to the Federal government from your home state to train when you go to BCT/AIT/OSUT. Any extra loan time from the state to the Federal government is time consuming for both sides to process.

Best way to get Airborne is enlist with it in your contract as either 18X or 11X MOS. Any half way decent recruiter should give you a diagnostic APFT at the office to even determine if you are eligible for 11X or 18X.

And to help yourself even more, talk to an actual 11B. A recruiter is trying to sell the Army to you, usually from a prospective they know nothing about. I helped out in a recruiting office for a year and heard recruiters do it all the time. Supply, field artillery, admin recruiters describing things like Airborne, Infantry, and Air Assault in horrendously inaccurate detail. 11B in recruiting offices is rare, so if you run across one be sure to chew their ear off about the MOS you want to go into from someone there.

I can't stand sitting in classes. Death by PowerPoint. I don't know how the NG is, but in the reserves we had to jamb a month worth of classes and paperwork into two days which meant I got to use my MOS exactly 0 times the entire 3 years I was in. Maybe it was just the unit I was in, but going in month after month and not doing my job was horrible on moral. If you have a high speed team or squad leader, you might get to do a little training in between all the paperwork and briefings, but it takes a special unit to make that happen.

In my opinion, active duty is the route to go if you want to be the tip of the spear. Enlist for an airborne unit (it includes an airborne contract) and don't let MEPS talk you into anything else (they will try). Prove yourself fit and smart by doing your job and staying out of trouble, and those high speed schools will start opening up, especially if you are a PT stud.

I would go talk to a current recruiter, one because things change, and two because some of what hes saying is wrong. Not a lot of airborne national guard units, so they dont like to pay for it. But that doesnt mean it is impossible.