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Airborne School:

The US Army Airborne School is at the US Army Infantry Center, Ft. Benning, Georgia. This course is designed to train soldiers to become paratroopers. It develops the student's confidence through repetitious training so that the student can overcome the natural fear of jumping from an airplane; develop and maintain the high level of physical fitness required of a paratrooper, by rigorous and progressive physical training. Each student must satisfactorily complete 5 jumps from an aircraft while in flight.

Air Assault School:

Air Assault school is at East Range Schofield Barracks, Hawaii. This course is conducted by the 25th Infantry Division (Light) Tropic Lightning. It is an intense, 10 day course designed to give leaders a basic understanding of Army helicopter missions. There is some class room instruction, but it is mostly hands-on and performance oriented. It is broken down into four phases: Pathfinder operations, slingload operations, rappelling phase, foot march phase.

Pathfinder School:

The US Army Pathfinder School is at the US Army Infantry Center, Ft. Benning, Georgia. Pathfinder School is a 3-week course in which the student navigates dismounted, establishes and operates a day/night helicopter landing zone, establishes and operates a day/night CARP, GMRS, and Army VIRS parachute DZ, conducts slingload operations, provides air traffic control and navigational assistance to RW and FW airborne operations. Students participates in a 3-day FTX as a member of a Pathfinder Team (Team Leader and Assistant Team Leader are graded positions).

Mountain Warfare School:

Mountain Warfare school is at Ethan Allen Firing Range, in Jericho Vermont, by the Vermont National Guard. This course is designed to teach/familiarize cadets with mountain operations. It will challenge you both physically and mentally. Training is nonstop, 16 hours per day for 14 days. It tests your physical strength by forcing you to carry a 45-65 pound rucksack for 2-5 miles a day in mountainous terrain and mentally by testing your day and night land navigation skills.

Northern Warfare School:

Northern Warfare is taught at the Northern Warfare Training Center in Fort Greely, Alaska. This course is designed to familiarize selected cadets with the skills required for movement in mountainous terrain and cold regions during summer months. Emphasis is placed on basic military mountaineering skills and reviver operations on the inland water ways.