Airborne Volunteer Statement: Fill & Download for Free

Sort of. There are some jobs in the military that are volunteer-only. Even though joining the US military is voluntary, once in you are mostly at the whims and needs of the military. You may have joined as a cook, but you can be forcibly reclassed into infantry.However, even though infantry doesn’t rate a volunteer-only status, some positions do. Being airborne (paratrooper) requires a volunteer statement, even if you’re going to be an airborne clerk. Ranger Regiment and Special Forces require you to volunteer. EOD (Explosive Ordnance Disposal) requires you to volunteer and you can pull your volunteer statement at any time.During the Battle of Mogadishu (the basis for Black Hawk Down), Gary Gordon and Randy Shughart were on a UH-60 Black Hawk. One UH-60 had crashed and the search and rescue team was enroute. Another UH-60 had gone down. No one was able to make it to the second site due to a combination of not anticipating multiple Black Hawk crashes and because friendly forces were largely pinned down fighting militia forces.Gary and Randy were snipers providing cover from the air. They repeatedly asked permission to go onto the ground to assist any crash survivors. They were initially denied because there were no other forces to assist or extract them. They repeated their request until they were finally granted permission. They fought their way to the crash site, extracted the injured but living pilot, and were engaged by militia forces. They inflicted heavy casualties but were outnumbered and outgunned, and their ammo was running low. After Gordon was killed, Shughart passed his carbine to the pilot, Mike Durant, with only 5 rounds of ammunition remaining. Finally, both snipers were killed and Mike Durant was captured alive.Mike Durant was eventually returned to US custody. Gary and Randy were posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor.I know it’s not quite what you asked for since no one asked them to do it, but they would never have been inserted on the ground if they had not volunteered.

If you are enlisting now, ask for them under the Unit of Choice option. If your are already in, contact your orderly room about filing a volunteer statement.

YESThe Line Battalions of the Ranger Regiment are Airborne Units on Active Jump Status. You can’t serve in the Regiment and NOT be Airborne Qualified.You can attend the Ranger School as a leg. But you MUST sign a Volunteer Statement to attend Airborne School if you are sent. You do not Volunteer for Airborne Duty you cannot attend Ranger School. The SKI of G identifies an Ranger School Graduate non Airborne. And when they (DA) get around to sending you to Airborne School, I hope they haven’t PCS’d the Ranger Tree off the Airborne School Grounds.It was amusing to watch the ROTC Rangers use it.