Obviously I have no real world experience to base this on, but I have always wanted to be in armor, so I hope it's a personal thing and it works out (I think it will, but you never know).

There is only one active LRSC, XVIII Abn Corps LRSC out of Ft. Bragg.

But there are three NG LRSCs, I believe .. 425th INF and 121st INF, and I can't recall the third, I think it's in Texas .. I believe those two are assigned I Corps and III Corps, though.

I do not know which one of those NG units it is here in California, but one of our new Lieutenants (a prior service E5) was drilling with them a couple months ago, and it sounds like they're near about as accident prone as myself.

There is one more LRSD, the 151st Inf Det. which is part of the Indiana NG.

151st Inf Det

Yes, but they are dedicated to a division(38th INF, I believe), not a corps like the LRSCs.

When I was an RI I had more than a few come through the school from 151st LRS, Indiana gives those lads a ton of money.

I know. My buddy a PFC who has only been in the 151st for 6 months, and the NG for less than 2 years just got a slot to sniper school, this summer AFTER he gets his Air Assault. I was pissed when I heard it. We can't get shit for schools up here, until you are a Cow, but it is getting better, they just started letting CDTs go through SFAS, and they might let the go to Ranger school now too, instead of making them wait until they graduate. You can only go to one school though. But there are some "hooah school" slots floating around, 2 guys got HALO last summer, and a few guys go to CDQC every year.

One of my buddies (another Cadet) just went through CDQC this past summer, has the little Scuba Steve bubble now.

The big difference between a Corps and Division LRSU is the size. A LRSC for a Corps is 2 to 3 times as big as a LRSD. The LRSD for the 40th Infantry Division is the 160th IN Detachment (LRS) at JFTB Los Alamitos. I have also heard that the LRSDs will be going out of business in the near future with the redesign of Division HQ, but their demise has been widely misreported in the past.

Can't speak to their safety record - I'm Field Artillery and not airborne qualified.

2 guys got HALO last summer

Jaeger, did they attend the 13-day short course or the 5 weeks?

How are they going to get around their past reasoning for not letting cadets go to RGR school? Because of the better than good chance you will have to repeat a phase and then this will encroach into the academic year, wasn't that their reasoning?

I have no idea which HALO course they went to, but they showed back up with that badass badge though, with everyone else just drooling over it, including me.

That was the reason that they stopped sending CDTs to RNGR SCH. To get a good military grade, you have to complete a school over the summer. I am sure you are aware of the RNGR SCH statistics better than I am, but the last I heard was that only 25% of guys make it through without getting recycled.

My buddy from 2d Batt. spent 6 months at Ranger School, and he said that there were guys who were down there longer than he was.

I am not 100% sure if this is going to go all the way through, but the skinny is that it is in the works.

I don't think that it is the best idea. They will go as LTs anyway, so why don't they give more slots to schools that they would otherwise not have a chance at getting. ex. CDQC, HALO, SERE. Thats just my opinion. What do you think about all this?