Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Air Assault School is known as the Army's "10 toughest days." The three phases of training are combat assault, sling-load ...

FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. -- The Missouri National Guard held the first Air Assault training course at Camp Crowder in Neosho, Mo., Feb. 28 to March 9. More than 160 active-duty and National Guard ...

The Air Assault Course is 11 days in duration and prepares soldiers for air mobile operations. During the course, students train and are evaluated on combat assault, sling loads, rappelling, physical ...

The Army Air Assault Course is one of the toughest military challenges, designed to push soldiers to their limits with rope climbs, rappelling, obstacle courses, and intense endurance tests. But could ...

FORT HOOD, Texas - More than 250 Soldiers from across Fort Hood began the first day of air assault training Oct. 17 during a course that Fort Hood is trying to permanently offer. The National Guard's ...

The Lightning Academy Air Assault Course (LAAAC) is a two week course designed to provide parent units with subject matter expert Soldiers, Non-Commissioned Officers (NCO), and junior Officers in the ...

As the brisk morning air nips at his fingers, Pvt. Jon-Luk Cole fights to keep his grasp on the rope as he pulls himself up reaching the top of the obstacle. Cole and fellow paratroopers from the 82nd ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: This is Army Air Assault School, where students train to insert themselves and equipment into combat using helicopters ...

Soldiers stationed in Kuwait now have the chance to earn their Air Assault wings thanks to a newly opened Air Assault Course. The very first iteration of the course began April 3 at Camp Buehring to ...