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Oh my god I really don’t even know where to start with this.
I am sorry but if your brother went anytime in the last twenty years or so then he was telling you a bs story. This is startling to sound a lot like your guy on a profile who got kicked out for failing a PT test story. It’s simply not true.
There isn’t even a rucksack on the packing list for airborne school. You really need to stop believing everything you are told.
Here look for yourself
Fort Benning | Basic Airborne Course (BAC)
There is no rucking in Airborne. None. Not a single one. Not from where the bus stops and not any where else.
And a large percentage of the people attending airborne don’t even ride a bus there. They drive their own cars. Airborne school is not just for people straight out of basic. You were fed a line of garbage.
Nor are pull ups part of the Airborne school pt test. All you need is a 180 on your pt tests. And the Army can not fail you from a school for doing something that is not a requirement. That’s not how the Army works. I swear junior enlisted come up with the silliest stuff.
And no one who has been to airborne in decades is claiming the runs are 7 minute pace runs.
But don’t just take my word for it. Let’s see what others say.
AIRBORNE SCHOOL | Baseops
A typical daily PT session includes warm up exercises, calisthenics, guerilla/grass drills or a 3.2 to 4 mile formation run. Males and females run in the same formation during PT and the average pace is 9-minutes per mile.
Here are 10 things everyone experiences in jump school - Americas Military Entertainment Brand
This shuffle refers to the pace or speed of a formation run during Airborne school. It is typically about a 9-minute mile.
Airborne school is ridiculously easy and has been that way for a long time.
It has nothing to do with numbers or anything else. We haven’t needed large numbers of Airborne soldiers for quite sometime and yet overweight males and females who can barely run graduate from airborne school every week.
You really should stop talking about things you have no idea on because it really makes you look silly.
It’s things like this that make senior NCOs just laugh and shake their head when the hear privates telling stories.
A large percentage do ride the bus there, as personal vehicles are only allowed in permissive tdy, while those in initial training are not allowed pov's since they they have not reported in to a permanent duty station yet for the first time, for initial training it works the same as ait, ie reclasses or those training after initial training get extra leniency, while those on initial training get treated like they are still in basic training with a little more freedom.
You do not need a rucksack perse to perform a ruckmarch, either way he had whatever gear was issued to him, he went to fort sill, then fort lost in the woods, then to a course forget the name basically the infantry ait portion of osut since he did not go to benning then airborne school then to fort brag.
It also sounds bad for you to not get the running experience either, but in terms of numbers yes they were in shortage, around 2006 when you claim the army was handing out major bonuses because the iraq and afghan wars and constant rotations was resulting in low retention rates, this is why fatass people could go years without passing a pt test or meeting standards under bush but under obama as the wars dwindled down the ranks ended up getting purged and standards enforced again, they no longer had to worry about a quota with both the recession bringing in new recruits and the wars dwindling down require less soldiers on constant rotations and long deployments.
Also you just pulled up some websites outlining what training should be, I will tell you now those sites do not mean crap, upon entering basic training I found actual training to be nothing like the army website and found each battalion and company in tradoc had different ways of doing things