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FNG
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| hey im still in high school and will be going to basic training soon in july so i just looked around the website n wanted to get any info on riggers or anything i should know btw ill be training in fort jackson, and fort benning as far as i know one last thing is it possible to get stationed in japan?
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Cherry
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Ft. Jackson is where you will attend Basic Combat Training and the Airborne Orientation Course before going to Ft. Benning for the Basic Airborne Course. After all of that you will go to Ft. Lee for your Advanced Individual Training. My daughter is currently at Ft. Benning she just arrived there and started training yesterday.
SSG M. Taynor (Retired)
Airforce and Army (not Airborne, sorry)
Father of a soon to be 92R
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| Japan... not likely. What you want to do is put your brain on Ft. Bragg N.C. and ANYTHING other than that you should consider a shocker. Its not the ONLY place a rigger can go but its the most common so if you go in expecting to be there you wont get crushed if you pull orders there. There are some nice spots riggers can end up but from my experience you either get those through dumb luck first assignment or when you reenlist for station of choice.
 
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MikeTaynor (4/29/2008)
Ft. Jackson is where you will attend Basic Combat Training and the Airborne Orientation Course before going to Ft. Benning for the Basic Airborne Course. After all of that you will go to Ft. Lee for your Advanced Individual Training. My daughter is currently at Ft. Benning she just arrived there and started training yesterday.I've never heard of the Airborne Orientation Course.....is this a new thing? I just went straight to Benning and started jump school.....but that was awhile back. Is this something to prepare a trooper for BAC and decreases the chance for failure????
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drnurse (4/29/2008)
[quote]I've never heard of the Airborne Orientation Course.....is this a new thing? I just went straight to Benning and started jump school.....but that was awhile back. Is this something to prepare a trooper for BAC and decreases the chance for failure???? Yes, it is new and something to keep from reclassing so many Riggers
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Cherry
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| Although Japan has become a bigger RIGGER unit, the old nombers were like 7. I think it is up to Detachment size, but do not count on getting there your first duty station. Funny story to follow::: So there I was Dec. 99 at the mpes station pondering re-entering the Army. Slept in hotel with a young kid coming in for the first time so I told him I knew alot about different MOS as I had spent 4 years as a AD rigger. So in the lobby he s asking me about some different MOS'. As I am telling him about some, other kids are keying in on this and asking me about jobs they thought about or were offered. Soon I had a mob around me. The hype quieted down as the young troops were pondering what they just learned from me when a kid comes out (not haven been privy to my knowledge..YET). He says quite emphatically "I enlisted!! I got a $10,000 dollar bonus and I leave next week." That dollar amount sounded kinda familiar so I said "Whay MOS?" He says.."92R I'm gonna be a rigger, i go to airborne school and they said i can get stationed in Italy, Germany..Jap.....I bust in with did you get any of those places in the contract?...he says "No but they said i can go to hawaii.....(you are going to Ft Bragg, NC) ..."no but they said I can get Alaska.....(you are going to Ft Bragg, NC)...."but they said i can get Korea or a bunch of places in the states. I said well look, If you didnt get it in your contract you are most likely almost to the point of definately going to Ft. Bragg, NC. 8 months later we were at a red hat run or something and I see the kid in formation in the 600th Qm at.......say it with me folks........FT BRAGG, NC
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Cherry
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I always told myself if Japan became available, I would hop right on it. After 5 years in the 82nd, didn't think it would ever happen! Then one day, I went with a fellow rigger to the retention office, (he wanted to reclass to 19D) and told the retention NCO if he could get Japan for me, I would reenlist the following day. Sure enough, I now leave for Japan in August! Funny thing is, 2 guys I used to work with are there now, and another former soldier of mine just reenlisted for it too.
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When I came back in I was happy to go to Bragg. I was just hoping that I didnt get stuck in Pack or Maintance. I knew people that went to Group and a bunch of other places. I also knew a bunch of people that went to Italy. Kind of makes me wish I stayed a Rigger just so I could get cool places.
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