Could anyone post some information about getting into the Army Airborne Division and becoming a paratrooper?

yep... go to a recruiter and demand it. that's about it.

Could u elaborate on the training and fitness things?

army airborne isnt too spectacular, every average joe can go to jump school.
If your gonna enlist focus on somthing more tangible to you in the future man.

I plan on becoming an Army doctor..but Airborne is something I've always thought about.

as a doctor though jump school isnt somthing your gonna get much chance for once comissioned your gonna live inside a BAS or hospital and wont have the time for jumo school id say from what Ive seen atleast,

Originally Posted by doc

as a doctor though jump school isnt somthing your gonna get much chance for once comissioned your gonna live inside a BAS or hospital and wont have the time for jumo school id say from what Ive seen atleast,

I am going to enlist after high school then after my contract is up, I am going to go to college then med school on the Army, then I will dutifully serve until my days end.

couldn't he be a combat medic in one of the Airborne units until he goes to college and med school?

Either way, after he's gone to see the recruiter I hope you guys help him out here because you know just how "honest" recruiters can be.
Isn't there some sort of contract he can bring home to review? This would be a good place for current and ex US military people to help him out. See if the recruiter's trying to screw him over. Apparently this happens A LOT.

fine, start running. work your way up to about 6 miles. make sure you can do situps and pushups. for your age, 80 or each in two minutes is a good goal. you can find some good PT references from the army online.

Originally Posted by the_13th_redneck

couldn't he be a combat medic in one of the Airborne units until he goes to college and med school?

Either way, after he's gone to see the recruiter I hope you guys help him out here because you know just how "honest" recruiters can be.
Isn't there some sort of contract he can bring home to review? This would be a good place for current and ex US military people to help him out. See if the recruiter's trying to screw him over. Apparently this happens A LOT.

Only reason I say this is because the army pulls longer deployments right now, and medics are needed. Hell Im not even in the army and Ive worked as medical support for them before. Once you go general enlisted like that the chances of you staying in garrison long enough to finish any college for medical school is slim. Because lets face it medical school is competitive, you have to keep the good grades in order to be competitve on your MCATS. So this job route is a bit more difficult in the field of getting prep work done for medical school.

I know the simple stuff you can do online, math is math and english is english but the job specific stuff like labs it gets harder. Then you run into the accredidation problems if you want to go to a high end medical school.. its just a very meticulous path alot of people start off wanting but dont realize exactly how much is invloved.