National Airborne Day 2024 is on Friday, August 16, 2024: National guard special forces question?

Friday, August 16, 2024 is National Airborne Day 2024. National Airborne Day is a day designated by the United States Congress to honor the nation's airborne forces of the Armed Forces.

National Airborne Day is a day designated by the United States Congress to honor the nation's airborne forces of the Armed Forces.

Army National Guard Special Forces will have to go through the same SF training that all active duty Army Sf goes through. It's a long pipeline. It includes:

•3 weeks of Airborne (parachute) Training at Fort Benning, GA

•4 weeks at the Special Operations Preparation Course (SOPC) at McKenna MOUT Site, Fort Benning, GA.

• 30 days of Special Forces Assessment and Selection (SFAS), Fort Benning, GA.

•40 days, Special Forces Qualification Course (SFQC), Phase I, Individual Skills Phase, Camp Rowe Training Facility.

•32 weeks, Special Forces Qualification Course (SFQC), Phase 2, MOS Qualification Phase, Fort Bragg, North Carolina, and Fort Chaffee, Arkansas

•38 days, Special Forces Qualification Course (SFQC), Phase 3, Collective Training Phase, (location unknown)

•4 to 6 months (depending on language), Special Forces Language School, Fort Bragg, SC.

Yes after over 2 years of this training, you can drill one weekend a month and 2 weeks a year with your SF unit. But with the high demand for green berets, it is highly likely you will be mobilized even if there is no war going on. That's the life of special ops. It may also interrupt your training. But first at least make sure there is a special forces unit in your area, because if there is not, this whole idea goes out the window.

You can go active SF in the Army without having to repeat the training. But if you have a degree, try becoming a special forces officer. You will be part of the same community just as an officer. You would have to be an infantry officer until you're a 1st Lt., then go SF again.

Like I said, even though the guard has special force, make sure there is n opening first in your area. And also keep in mind not everyone makes it through special forces training successfully, so be prepared to be an infantryman if you don't make it.

82nd airborne division?

When you say, "I have airborne in my contract," does that mean you have Airborne School in your contract, or that your first duty station is going to be Ft. Bragg.

Just because you go to Airborne School does not mean you will go to one of the airborne brigades.

For example, I went to Airborne School and then went to First Armored Division.

Just want to warn because it happens.

In general, if you go to an airborne brigade (the divisions do not really exist anymore other then the headquarters with a historical lineage) you will mostly train in your home base or Ft. Polk, Louisiana, sometimes Ft. Irwin, California too. In Italy you would train there or in Hoenfelds, Germany.

When units go to other countries to train, it is part of a bilateral exercise usually involving 1 company or maybe a battalion that goes on a specific event. A lot of that is currently being done by the National Guard due to deployment requirements. For example the Texas National Guard just did one with Japan a couple weeks ago. When the active Army does this, it rotates between all units, not just airborne units.

National Guard?

You can get some basic info here as well use it to locate a recruiter for the Army National Guard:

It's completely for real - the Army National Guard and Army Reserve are deploying quite often these days. So approach it with the same seriousness as joining any branch of the armed forces. There is even an Army National Guard SF or "Green Beret" unit: the 20th SFG (Airborne).

Good luck with your choices!

For the poster below: The military isn't for everyone. It takes hard work, dedication, and sacrifice. Maybe next time you should think your actions through before you make a commitment you aren't prepared to follow? Just a thought.