What was your favorite/most interesting school that you went to?

My most interesting, challenging and fun was Northern Warfare School. I attended the summer course which is based out of Fort Greeley, AK and consists of 3 phases, River, Mountain and Glacier. My fondest memory was falling through a snowbridge into a crevass while tied into a three man rope team; had to walk my way up the ice wall to get out...good times! Where else would you be able to experience something like that but in the military? Spoiler alert - no badges for this school, so if that's important to you then get over it!

Two schools come to mind for very different reasons (and both schools are long long gone)

First would be the old (1970-vintage) 7th Army Tank Commander Course at Vilseck Germany. This was an excellent school that covered all the technical knowledge that a Tank Commander needed to maintain and operate his tank. It did not cover tactics which were considered the realm of Platoon Sergeants, Platoon Leaders, and unit commanders. Oddly enough I was sent to the course mostly because my unit wanted rid of me for a while. I had just arrived in the unit when I broke both bones in my lower leg. Since I was a single E-5 living in the barracks, I could not be put on convalescent leave, so I spent my first month in the unit on profile with a cast from my toes to my hip. After that I had a short leg cast (toes to knee) and they shipped me off the the first available school I was eligible to attend, which just happened to be the Tank Commander course. Despite the cast which limited me somewhat, I still returned from the three-week course as Honor Graduate (which resulted in the Battalion sending me to several more schools during my tour in Germany).

At the time, I had appreciated the course, but I didn't realize just how comprehensive it was until many years later I attended the Tank Master Gunner course at the Armor School. EVERYTHING that was covered in the Maintenance phase of the Master Gunner Course was stuff I had learned years earlier at Vilseck. What was particularly noteworthy was that there was another student in the same Master Gunner class who had attended the 7th Army Tank Commanders Course almost a year after me. He assured me that 99% of the troubleshooting and advanced maintenance covered in the Master Gunner course had been eliminated from the Tank Commander course during the months between when I attended and when he attended a few months later.

The other "favorite" course I attended was the USAREUR Projectionist Course -- a one week program teaching soldiers how to operate movie projectors and other audio-visual training equipment (back then you needed to be "licensed" for each kind of AV equipment). The training was nothing special, and actually a bit tedious, but what made the course a favorite was that although the training was conducted at McGraw Kaserne, we were housed in the American Hotel in the heart of Munich, not far from the Hofbrauhaus (still known as the World's Most Famous Tavern), and our course was conducted right in the middle of Fasching.

It isn't the number of schools you attend or graduate from, it's the schools you attend that develop you as an asset to your MOS and the Military. Become proficient in your job can lead to promotions, recognition and after the military jobs.