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Originally Posted by Dusty
A month after you graduate, you'll kick yourself for being skeered of the course.
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I just got back from the course. Pretty much this.
I ended up getting winged today. The course itself wasn't bad at all. Zero Day turned out to be all hype. If anything, Day 1 for us was worst than Day Zero. Phase I material was pretty easy as well. Phase II was more nerves if anything. A lot of us were worried about finding those deficiencies. I ended up finding five errors on the A-22 Cargo Bag (The fifth being unintentional), the Humvee, Cargo Net, and Fuel Blivets. The Rappel Phase wasn't hard. The hardest part about it was wearing a Swiss Rapel Seat for three days. The 12 mile just sucked because the weather was far from user friendly. We had to embrace the suck. I barely had 10 minutes left upon reaching the finish line.
All together we started with 190 and we graduated with 157. We lost a lot of people on Zero Day and Sling Loads.
Overall, I had a blast at Air Assault School. Though I wish we actually got to use real helicopters. The Kentucky National Guard Aviators were mobilized to deal with the floods and we ended up doing FRIES off of the 52 foot Rapel Tower instead.
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