>>27746804Linguist here, I'll reiterate what I said in the last thread:
IF YOU WANT TO BE AN AIRBORNE LINGUIST----------------------------------------
-You do NOT get to pick being in an Airborne unit right off the bat when you become a 35P.
-You apply for Airborne once you get to DLI, usually near the last phase of your schooling. If you can score well enough in PT, and (I emphasize strongly strongly) NOT BE A FUCKUP IN CLASS, you can get the physical there. If you get a Cat IV language (highest category), you are going to be there more than a year and a half, and that is not even AIT yet, which is a few more months of locked-down fuckery in bumfuck nowhere (someone committed suicide there last week, so mental resiliency is key).
-If you fail class/DLPT the first time, there is virtually no chance you will get Airborne, even if your paperwork is done. That happened to a few of my buddies. One of them got his Airborne slot taken two days before graduating AIT (after two years of dreaming like you do).
-In order not to fail, understand that DLI is a school that you must take seriously, not a party college where you there to fuck all the bitches and drink yourself under the table on weekdays (a mistake many, many people make there when they become disillusioned about the strenuous nature of the class). Take tutors as you can, do what you must to stay up in class.
-It is true that if you go Airborne, you can do cool shit and get out of much of the big-Army, nerds-all-around-you fuckery you would find in a strategic position. However, you must stay on your language training, because your unit will most likely not be proactive in keeping you maintained in your language proficiency (unlike strategic positions, where you will use your language every day and you will do another set of classes before you do your job, as well as do maintenance on your own when you are doing a whole lot of nothing trying to dodge details).
Exhaustive enough for you?
