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In 1940, the War Department approved the formation of a test platoon of Airborne Infantry under the direction and control of the Army's Infantry Board. A test platoon of volunteers was organized from Fort Benning's 29th Infantry Regiment, and the 2nd Infantry Division was directed to conduct tests to develop reference data and operational procedures for air-transported troops.
United States Army Air Assault School; United States Army Air Defense Artillery School; United States Army Airborne School; United States Army Aviation Center of Excellence; United States Army Cavalry School; United States Army CBRN School; United States Army Combatives School; United States Army Command and General Staff College; United States ...
The 1st Battalion serves as the training unit for the U.S. Army Airborne School. Its Headquarters and Headquarters Company (HHC) conducts the Jumpmaster and Pathfinder Courses. Companies A, B, and C conduct the Basic Airborne Course. (Company D, currently inactive, also conducted the Basic Airborne Course.) Company E is a Parachute Rigger Company.
Ranger School is open to all Military Occupational Specialties (MOSs) in the U.S. Army, although—as of April 2011—an Army combat exclusion zone still limits some from attending. [14] Ranger students come from units in the United States Army , Marine Corps , Air Force , Navy , Coast Guard , and from foreign military services.
Either graduated from the Jumpmaster Course of the Airborne Department of the Infantry School or the Jumpmaster School of a separate airborne battalion or larger airborne unit, or infantry divisions and separate infantry brigades containing organic airborne elements, including the U.S. Army Alaska Jumpmaster Course, or served as jumpmaster on ...
Jumpmasters are responsible for transforming soldiers who enter Army Airborne School into paratroopers and leading airborne jump operations in airborne units across all branches of services. Jumpmasters make sure each and every paratrooper is proficient at the following airborne operational techniques: Day/Night Combat Equipment Jump; Parachute ...
The 101st Airborne was allotted to the Regular Army in June 1948 [15] and reactivated as a training unit at Camp Breckenridge, Kentucky the following July, only to be inactivated the next year. [15] It was reactivated in 1950 following the outbreak of the Korean War , again to serve as a Training Center at Camp Breckenridge until inactivated in ...
The Glider Badge was a special skills badge of the United States Army.According to the U.S. Army Institute of Heraldry, the badge was awarded to personnel who had "been assigned or attached to a glider or airborne unit or to the Airborne Department of the Infantry School; satisfactorily completed a course of instruction, or participated in at least one combat glider mission into enemy-held ...