Why is Army training usually over 20 weeks but the Average AF is 11?
2006-09-28 13:06:52 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Military
In the AF the Officers fly off and bomb and strafe things, in the Army you got alot of people on the ground fighting it out with the bad guys eyeball-to-eyeball. Different skills are needed, more than a "Bombs away, back to the O-Club for a beer."
2006-09-28 14:19:18 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hmm... My husband is in the Air Force and his boot camp training was 6 weeks and his text book training was 6 months. My brother is joining the Army National Guard in Jan. and his boot camp will be 9 weeks and his text book training will be 6 weeks. It probably depends on what kind of job you go into, and maybe A.N.G. is different from the Army...
2006-09-29 09:53:34 · answer #2 · answered by THATgirl 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Apples to Oranges. You have to compare similar jobs in order to see which branch runs the longer one.
For example, what used to be called 29Y/31S (god knows what it is called this week) was a very long MOS, probably 10 months plus another 4 if you got stuck with the 1C ASI. We had USAF and USN classmates. I did not ask the USAF guys, but the USN guys had already gone through TWO years of electronics training before they were sent to go through Satcom school with the Army.
2006-09-28 20:27:19 · answer #3 · answered by veraperezp 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is determined I would think by what you will be doing for the military, in the Army you know you will be doing a lot of ground pounding so you would have to be in better shape for that, in the Air Force you know you will not be seeing that much physical stuff once out of basic because you fight from the Air sort of like, one you have to be in really great shape to do and the other not so great.
2006-09-28 20:41:39 · answer #4 · answered by billc4u 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Like veraperez said, it all is really dependent on which MOS you are talking about sure an admin clerk has pretty short training, but an aircraft mech or systems maintainance person would be around 44 weeks. Some jobs like SF take over two years. Please be more specific on what kind of jobs you had in mind.
2006-09-29 03:13:57 · answer #5 · answered by Short Timer 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because Air Force is a less physical branch, so they need less physical BASIC training. As for AIT (Advanced Individual Training), that is determined by the job.
2006-09-29 16:45:48 · answer #6 · answered by You_did_what? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What type of training are you talking about? Each ones are all different!
2006-09-28 20:15:45 · answer #7 · answered by peg 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
every one takes basic training, which is 9 weeks. then u go to ur specialist training. so if ur infantry you'ld go to ft benning, if ur armor ud go to ft knox etc.
2006-09-28 21:14:18 · answer #8 · answered by _ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋