Departments and Centers
Military Science
Advanced Placement
Airborne School
This course is taught at Fort Benning, Georgia, and lasts three weeks. Students completing this course are fully qualified paratroopers. The first week (ground week) consists of rigorous physical training and instruction designed to prepare the student to make a parachute jump and land safely. The second week (tower week) perfects individual skills and stresses team effort. Jump skills are taught through the use of the swing landing trainer, the suspended harness, and the 250-foot free-fall tower. The final week (jump week) consists of five parachute jumps from U.S. military aircraft.
