Posted on Mar 13, 2018
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Infantry
11B: Infantryman
Army Schools
Posted 8 y ago
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great question, I recommend Ranger, airborne, air assault, any of the mortar courses, combat life saver. BNOC, ANOC. These are just a few, Jordan not unlike any other profession, the profession of being a warrior is only complemented when the warrior educates himself in the business.
If I could give you 1 piece of advice, I would say dont start out worrying about your career be the best fucking infantryman you can be, the career part will take care of itself. That is going to require lots of schools, and effort of on your part.
If I could give you 1 piece of advice, I would say dont start out worrying about your career be the best fucking infantryman you can be, the career part will take care of itself. That is going to require lots of schools, and effort of on your part.
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LTC Stephen Conway
A retired Ranger (Class of '68) who did 30 years and retired a Colonel said Ranger school is the Master's degree of Infantry. Go for it!!!
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1SG Dennis Hicks
"I don't go out with girls anymore! "I live a life of danger! "I sit in a tree and play with myself!" "WEE, I'M A RANGER!" Doing pushups now Sir :)
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COL (Join to see)
I don't know about Air Assault. I seem to remember hearing somewhere Air Assault trooper is nothing but a joke. Where did I hear that? I heard it somewhere- many times. Possibly on Ardennes Road.
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LTC Jeff Shearer
Carl true! When I was an ODA CDR my team and I spent lots of time out in the hinterland training on 11B task. Back then I preached that part of the job of being an SF dude is being an expert 11B
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Take whatever schools that are open to your career choice, and then if they still have the sub-courses still available from Newport News, then go as far as you can with them also, you gain more knowledge and retirement points, plus the hours posted on them can be converted into credit hours for college.
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Young man there are many schools and Additional Skill courses out there but you have to keep in mind you will not be on the top of the (OML) order of merit list from day one. You have to show your Chain of Command you are worthy of the investment and have the ability to pass the courses/schools. There will be others ahead of you that have already done this and will get the slots first. Each slot is portion of the units schools budget and if any troop fails a course it will be that much harder to get another slot. Perfecting your skills is an effort of the long run, if you are up to it the schools will come.
I will add this comment as well, sending PVT's/PFC's to RANGER, PATHFINDER, AIR ASSAULT, SFCQ ETC if not in your contract will not happen that fast. Back in my DAY you had to be at least a SGT to attend selection for SF. Ranger school is decided after you get to RANGER Bat they will make sure you are more than ready before they send you. Jump School, if you get Option 4 in your contract then that's possible. Focus on the 25 meter targets (Close ones) rather than the long distance ones. Do your very best at (OSUT) One Station Unit Training) Graduate that first then set your goals. It's a long ruck march ahead. That's the Advice I gave my youngest son and he wants to follow in my footsteps god help him.
I will add this comment as well, sending PVT's/PFC's to RANGER, PATHFINDER, AIR ASSAULT, SFCQ ETC if not in your contract will not happen that fast. Back in my DAY you had to be at least a SGT to attend selection for SF. Ranger school is decided after you get to RANGER Bat they will make sure you are more than ready before they send you. Jump School, if you get Option 4 in your contract then that's possible. Focus on the 25 meter targets (Close ones) rather than the long distance ones. Do your very best at (OSUT) One Station Unit Training) Graduate that first then set your goals. It's a long ruck march ahead. That's the Advice I gave my youngest son and he wants to follow in my footsteps god help him.
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SPC (Join to see)
SPC David Willis - This was not supposed to be a reply to your comment. It was supposed to be a stand alone response. My bad, brother.
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SPC David Willis
SPC (Join to see) - Ha I figured, no worries dude he can see the answer all the same.
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All of them. Any school you can get your hands on. Never stop learning. Does NOT matter what school it is. If it's offered, you volunteer to go. The biggest missed opportunities and the ones you neglect to take.
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SPC Mark Brown
So different that 50 years ago, once you earned an MOS at AIT, that was it. I have 4 different MOS and only one AIT. The jobs I had were as far apart as you can imagine. Not even OJT, just, here, go do it. The way I learned to drive an 18 wheeler was one day I went to the motor pool to get a vehicle to take up to Seoul (mine was in for whatever they take them in to do to them.) Motor Pool dispatched tossed me a log book and said take number (whatever it was). I found number xx and saw that it was an 18 wheeler with no trailer. He came out told me the shift pattern. I had been driving a smaller truck for a long time while in Korea so I understood about air brakes and 2 speed rear end, etc. I ended up in Seoul about 3 hours later and found myself at an intersection with vehicles coming in from every point on the compass with a little cop in white shirts in the middle of the madness directing traffic. No lights. Now that was fun. That was REAL OJT. I didn't realize that I would be "requested" to repeat that trip on several occasions with a trailer and this wasn't even my job or within my section.
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