Day Zero: Journey to earn Air Assault wings
By Sgt. Tom Wade USARCENT Public Affairs
CAMP BUEHRING, Kuwait, April 11, 2017 — Hundreds of Soldiers, Airmen and Marines came from miles away to fulfill a dream. Their journey is not easy, it requires a keen eye for detail and the ability to handle heavy equipment, while under duress. Thus, upon successful completion of day zero, candidates can then call themselves ‘Air Assault Students.’
Task Force Spartan, a U.S. lead task force with a mission to defeat “extremist enemies of peace and stability,” created an Air Assault Course, which started, April 3, at Camp Buehring, Kuwait. The course’s purpose is to provide U.S. military personnel in the U.S. Army Central theater of operations the unique opportunity to become air assault qualified, while also being deployed outside the continental United States.
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