Am going airborne, and I was just wondering where are most of the Airborne Infantry units stationed at,am really exited I just wanted to get an idea, Thanks in advance.

Your going to recieve Parachute Training then be assigned to "Needs of the Army". Which means, anywhere an 11B can be stationed, you can be stationed. The # of units on jump status are limited, and chances are pretty good that you won't be going to any of them. It's pretty much a random thing, unless you get lucky and get the chance to volunteer for the 82cnd Airborne or something. If not, you can listen to people call you a "Five Jump Chump" for at least the next 2 years. Leg's will call you that because they are jeoulous and have small peni$e$. Former Paratroops will call you a "Cherry" because you are a Jump qualified soldier eagerly waiting to jump again!

Fort Bragg

Fort Polk ( possibly)

Fort Richardson

Vicenza, Italy

Germany ( possibly)

Fort Campbell ( possibly)

or needs of the Army... but the best bet if you have BAC in your contract and complete basic/osut) and bac you will most likely end up at Bragg.. unless they offer you RIP while you are in BAC if you have done well enough...

best of luck

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Originally posted by hebru:
Your going to recieve Parachute Training then be assigned to "Needs of the Army". Which means, anywhere an 11B can be stationed, you can be stationed. The # of units on jump status are limited, and chances are pretty good that you won't be going to any of them. It's pretty much a random thing, unless you get lucky and get the chance to volunteer for the 82cnd Airborne or something. If not, you can listen to people call you a "Five Jump Chump" for at least the next 2 years. Leg's will call you that because they are jeoulous and have small peni$e$. Former Paratroops will call you a "Cherry" because you are a Jump qualified soldier eagerly waiting to jump again!

so what your saying is that most guys that are not airborne are part or all irish...haaa

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Originally posted by hebru:
Your going to recieve Parachute Training then be assigned to "Needs of the Army". Which means, anywhere an 11B can be stationed, you can be stationed. The # of units on jump status are limited, and chances are pretty good that you won't be going to any of them. It's pretty much a random thing, unless you get lucky and get the chance to volunteer for the 82cnd Airborne or something. If not, you can listen to people call you a "Five Jump Chump" for at least the next 2 years. Leg's will call you that because they are jeoulous and have small peni$e$. Former Paratroops will call you a "Cherry" because you are a Jump qualified soldier eagerly waiting to jump again!

so what your saying is that most guys that are not airborne are part or all irish...haaa

Why, 'cause all Irish are the jealous type?

You can't volunteer for the 82nd.... and being 11Bang Bang with BAC gives you a VERY GOOD CHANCE of coming to Bragg.....Many Units are not on status.... but line Units on Bragg? Yeah ALL on status.... only certain MOS in some Units have lost jump status. And if you are ABN wualified and end up in a non status Unit I don't see an yone calling you a 5 jump chump because you will have one up on them to begin with, by earning your wings to start... something they wont have.


Nismo... if you have BAC in your contract then don't worry you will end up in a pretty good Unit. Most likely 82nd but very well could be 101 or 173rd.

Best of luck

I wouldn't be so sure about all that.

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You can't volunteer for the 82nd....

At my BAC, one day they said "Whoever wants to go to the 82cnd Airborne, get in this formation". So I "Jumped" in there. We marched to a building. When we got there, they said, "If you have overseas orders, we can't help you". I had overseas orders, so I was done with that avenue. Everyone that was left went inside and did whatever, and got orders for Ft. Bragg by the end of BAC.

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and being 11Bang Bang with BAC gives you a VERY GOOD CHANCE of coming to Bragg

There is no gauruntees. You can wind up driving a Stryker.

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And if you are ABN wualified and end up in a non status Unit I don't see an yone calling you a 5 jump chump because you will have one up on them to begin with, by earning your wings to start... something they wont have.

I agree with the latter part, but Career Legs and Treadheads will be talking smack and you would still be a green private who should keep his trap shut. (Not you, but the new private)

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Most likely 82nd but very well could be 101 or 173rd.

Again, you can end up anywhere. I eventually went to an LRSD which wasn't too shabby, but had to drive a track for 2 years in Mech world first.

The point here isn't for me to be contrary, the point to the OP/ future Paratrooper is: Don't assume every has fallen into place. If you wind up with orders to Ft Ord or something, but you want to be a Paratroop, do anything you can to get it changed. Speak up, knock on doors, be persistant, cry to your Black Hat or the CO if you have too. Don't be timid about asking for help. Someone might be sympathetic & help a young stud trying to go somewhere high speed. Good luck, feet and knees together.

please excuse my ignorance, but what is BAC? my recruiter told me that I could get airborne school in my contract, so that's what am shooting for.
I really want to get out of the states, I mean I love this country to death, its just that I want to be able to see other countries, so i'm going to list down, Italy for the 173rd, and germany. am enlisting as a specialist, because of my degree. is it possible to get orders to go overseas in your contract?

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Originally posted by hebru:


At my BAC, one day they said "Whoever wants to go to the 82cnd Airborne, get in this formation". So I "Jumped" in there. We marched to a building. When we got there, they said, "If you have overseas orders, we can't help you". I had overseas orders, so I was done with that avenue.

so I can find out if I have orders overseas before Airborne school?

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Originally posted by NismoR003:
please excuse my ignorance, but what is BAC? my recruiter told me that I could get airborne school in my contract, so that's what am shooting for.
I really want to get out of the states, I mean I love this country to death, its just that I want to be able to see other countries, so i'm going to list down, Italy for the 173rd, and germany. am enlisting as a specialist, because of my degree. is it possible to get orders to go overseas in your contract?

BAC = Basic Airborne Course otherwise known as "Airborne School". They call it "Basic" because there are also follow-on advanced Airborne Courses, Jumpmaster for example.

On your second question, you only get so many choices in a contract. Ask your recruiter, how many choices you can get. I'd stick with Airborne School as a primary choice in your contract though....that is tough to get outside a enlistment contract. Only 400 slots - DoD wide for a training cycle and only one place they train for that. Air Assault, not DoD wide and multiple places you can earn that....thats a big difference.

If your in any Army Infantry unit your going overseas at some point. They aren't going to let you sit in the United States forever.

I can't tell you for all MOS but to answer your question on Infantry, you get orders for Airborne School at the end of Infantry OSUT. Once in Airborne School you get orders for your next unit. Thats how it was working in 2007. At the end of OSUT those that were not going onto further training got orders to their next unit.

There is a reason for that, they don't want to keep shuffling peoples assignments around until they know your through training and in one piece and not broken in some way. Thats why they hold off on assignment orders.

As of late, and I've been in the Army for a long while, you stand a very very good chance of going to an Airborne unit if you complete Airborne School as an 11B. Back in the 90s this wasnt the case. In todays Army in the contemporary operating environment, the Airborne units need all the trigger pullers they can get. the Army has 6 Airborne Brigade Combat Teams, 4 in the 82nd and 2 seperate brigades, the 173rd and 4th Brigade, 25th Infantry. as opposed to the 4 brigades and 2 seperate battalions of the 90s.

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Originally posted by BlueFlameCoupe:
As of late, and I've been in the Army for a long while, you stand a very very good chance of going to an Airborne unit if you complete Airborne School as an 11B. Back in the 90s this wasnt the case. In todays Army in the contemporary operating environment, the Airborne units need all the trigger pullers they can get. the Army has 6 Airborne Brigade Combat Teams, 4 in the 82nd and 2 seperate brigades, the 173rd and 4th Brigade, 25th Infantry. as opposed to the 4 brigades and 2 seperate battalions of the 90s.

That is good to hear. My experience is from 1989. I was pretty dissapointed having an 11X Airborne Option, and ending up in some low speed unit driving a track. My purpose for siging up was to be Airborne. My initial enlistent had 17 weeks added to it for getting the Airborne Option in the first place. I had no way of knowing, and why would I ask, I had the Airborne Option. I had to wait 2+ years to make my Cherry Jump.

my friend was telling me that if the army has both, slots in my MOS in the states and slots overseas they rather send me overseas. I know thats more like an opinion, but how realistic is that?
i'm single, no kids, at least that I know of,so I would rather go overseas.

Now, if a i get assigned to a unit that is currently deployed, do I join them where they're deployed or wait until the unit comes back?

Thats not something I have ever heard of. You will go wherever the Army needs you to serve as a Paratrooper, the 82nd, 173rd, or 4Bde/25th ID.

Back in the mid 90's when I got in, a friend I worked with enlisted 11x also, with Airborne in his contract. He wrote home during OSUT and had his mom order butt loads of dress and subdued 82 Airborne patches and other 82 stuff. Upon graduation and getting his wings he got his unit assignment. 4th Infantry Div. Hopefully it's easier now like BlueFlame said.

Alright, I finally enlisted, my shipping date its on 20090212, my recruiter is a good friend of mine so he tried really hard to get me airborne, and he did!!!!, after getting in a verbal fight with the counselor, he called him lazy and everything cause he didn't wanted to make the call, ha ha, but he finally did, so am requesting overseas Italy, am crossing my fingers please be the 173rd, is not that I think that the 173rd superior to the others, is just that I really want to go to Europe, and serve in Afghanistan.

Here's a post that has nothing to do with how things are done in todays Army..anyway, in 1983 I signed up 11X and had the 82d Airborne in my contract. Even had the eighty duece patch on my left sleeve after about 8 weeks of OSUT down at Benning.