Talk:United States Army Airborne School

Requested move
This page should be United States Army Airborne School to keep consistency in naming of other articles regarding US Army schools &mdash; Linnwood 22:57, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
 * I support that. If no one objects, go ahead and do it. --Nobunaga24 00:10, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
 * I disagree, It may be an Army run school, but it is the Airborne School for ALL of the U.S. Armed Forces. Ehrentitle 00:49, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes, but Ranger School is open to other services, and Air Assault, etc etc. It's an army school, not a DoD school run by the army. It is where all (I believe) service members go for airborne training, but falls under complete army control as a TRADOC TDA unit. It's never called United States Airborne School. --Nobunaga24 00:59, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
 * This is my understanding as well. All branches send their service memebers to Benning for Airborne training, but the schools is run by TRADOC and is under Army command, not DoD. &mdash; Linnwood 01:38, 7 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Move completed. &mdash; Linnwood 18:33, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

night jumps
i added "time permitting" to the sentence "At least one jump is at night." i attended jump school in late oct-early-nov 2004. my jump week was the same week as veterans' day, which happened to fall on a thursday, cutting my jump week to only monday, tuesday, and wednesday. we jumped twice during the day monday, the same for tuesday, and then again wednesday morning. we did no night jumps. Parsecboy 21:52, 11 September 2006 (UTC)


 * I deleted your qualifier because your unique exprience does not necessarily reflect the program of instruction of the Airborne School. Instruction is is sometimes modified to meet temporary weather or time restriction. I for example, didn't participate the 250-foot free tower because of high winds that day, but this does not deserve mention. Ehrentitle 22:04, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Recent Edits
I reverted the past few edits because they were unsourced, POV, written in second person as a how-to manual, and partially in all caps. I would support adding this information back if someone can find sources and rewrite them. Ketsuekigata (talk) 06:03, 17 February 2008 (UTC)


 * I undid an additional edit by the all-caps using gentleman, as I know that he's quite mistaken. I graduated Airborne in '99 and there were cadre from all four branches present. This may no longer be the case in present day, but even if it is no longer true, the article should still mention it, as it is a historical fact. I'll dig up a ref for it when I find one. EvilCouch (talk) 18:03, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

History of the school
In either Anthony Herbert's Soldier or David Hackworth's About Face the author relates how in the 1950s parachute training was part of an Airborne Infantryman's advanced individual training. Does anyone know when the three week jump school first started? Foofbun (talk) 00:58, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

"Two-story building"
"The T-10D round-shaped parachute that static-line paratroopers use gives a descent rate of 23.1 ft/sec for 260 pounds suspended ..., which is the equivalent of jumping from a two-story building." - This should probably be deleted or modified, or at the very lease sourced, as it is unequivocally false. Without air resistance, a human in freefall reaches 23 fps in about 2.5m, or about 8.2 feet. This is significantly less than even a single story, usually considered to be about 10 feet when given without context. The only way the quoted section makes sense is with ~4 foot stories, in which case I am more than a story and a half tall. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.215.55.215 (talk) 04:17, 31 May 2015 (UTC)