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Gateway Battalion Army ROTC |
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A variety of professional development opportunities are available each summer for cadets desiring an extra challenge. Participation is entirely optional, though highly encouraged. Cadets receive room and board when participating in the summer programs, as well as reimbursement for travel expenses. Selection for schools with restricted allocations is based on the class order-of-merit list. This list takes into account academic performance, physical fitness, participation in ROTC activities throughout the school year, and overall performance assessments by the cadre. |
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Training Opportunities |
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The Basic Airborne Course is a three-week training program conducted by the Airborne Department at Fort Benning, Georgia. The course trains students to use the parachute as a means of combat deployment. Students begin the first week on the ground (ground week), learning the basics of parachute landings, and start a vigorous physical training program. During the second week (tower week), proper technique for exiting of a plane is mastered. Many times there is an opportunity at the end of tower week to parachute from a 250-foot high tower. The third and final week is the jump week. Cadets make a series of five jumps from either a C-130 or C-141 aircraft, including one night jump and two combat jumps with full combat gear. Successful completion qualifies cadets to wear the Parachutist Badge, the coveted “Silver Wings”. |
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Airborne School |
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The Air Assault School, conducted at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, is two weeks of mental and physical challenges. This school is designed to teach assault skills and procedures, improve basic leadership skills, instill the Air Assault spirit and award the Air Assault Badge. During the course, students face challenges such as: an obstacle course, rigorous physical training, rappelling, ascending and descending a troop ladder on a 35-foot tower and a CH-47 helicopter, rigging and sling loading, road marches, and written and practical examinations based on a PASS/FAIL system. |
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Air Assault School |
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Mountains aren’t just for postcards, they are for climbing. Mountain Warfare is a two-week course taught in Jericho, Vermont. Students learn fundamental light infantry tactics, techniques, and skills necessary for survival in mountainous terrain. Skills include rappelling, rock climbing techniques, basic mountain survival, rappelling, land navigation, first aid, and tactical knots. |
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Mountain Warfare School |
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What better way to escape the scorching days of summer than by climbing snow-covered mountains and icy glaciers. Northern Warfare is a three-week course held at Fort Greely, Alaska, and is designed to teach skills necessary to survive in an arctic/winter environment. Skills include: cross-country skiing, construction of shelters, mountaineering, rock and glacier-climbing, tactical knot tying, and cold-weather survival techniques. |
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Northern Warfare School |
