Arcer Army Airborne School

The Arcer Army Airborne School - more commonly known as Jump School - conducts the basic and advanced paratrooper (military parachutist) training for the Armed Forces of Arcerion and its allied partners. It is operated by a cadre of instructors from the Arcerion Parachute Regiment and select invited exchange officers and NCOs from foreign countries such as XX and YY. It hosts a variety of curriculum and is considered the center-of-excellence for Airborne Operations in the Occidental world, and amongst modern militaries is considered the premier airborne instructional and training center in Ixnay.

It is housed at the Smythe Lines, named after LCpl John Smythe, a paratrooper killed in Kelekona while peacekeeping as part of Operation Redoubt.

History

The school has been in continual operation since 1919. It was established after the First great War through Army studies that identified the need for a greater expeditionary capability for the Arcer Army. The school was stood up in conjunction with the Arcee Air Force, who used it to teach pilots how to insert parachutists as well as establish standard operating procedures for aerial resupply. The school graduated its first class in August of 1919 and has been contuiosuly running the Baisc Parachutist 3-week course since then, with the core cirrulcum almost unchanged.

The school underwent major renovations the 1930s with the creation fo additional battalions for the Arcerion parachute Regiment. This served to assist with the creation of an entire Airborne Divison as part of Operation Lightfoot, which included the vast majorty of the school's cadre being posted to Airborne units to help stand up additionally required battalions. At the conclusion of the Second Great War, this meant that despite casualties in the NCO and office cadre, the amount of experience that was then re-posted back to the school was second-to-none in Ixnay. This, concurrent with the continuous use of Arcer paratroopers in deployments to Istrenya, Ardmore, Varshan, and Kelekona have meant the Airborne school retained relevance throughout much of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Additional facilities and buildings were provided with the expansion of the school to incorporate advanced courses such as military freefall parachuting and helocasting.

Personnel

existing lore

The Arcer Army Airborne School, commonly referred to as Jump School, is the only military parachute facility remaining in the Arcer military. It is staffed with a cadre of officers and NCOs from the Parachute Regiment, and regularly runs both Basic Parachute Courses (BPC) as well as Advanced Parachute Courses (APCs). It is the core of the Parachute Regiment's ability to generate new paratroopers, and has been in continuous operation since 1919. Every year it qualifies several hundred new members of the Arcer Armed Forces to perform static-line, freefall, and jumpmaster duties. It is housed at the Smythe Lines, named after LCpl John Smythe, killed in Kelekona while peacekeeping. The AAAS also regularly hosts paratroopers and instructor staff from XX and YY, as part of the ongoing Arcer commitment to military excellence and international partnerships through armed forces collaboration. The school follows three phases, Instruction Week, Tower/Hangar Week, and Jump Week. After three weeks, soldiers are qualified as basic army parachutists, and those wishing to pursue employment as members of the Parachute Regiment may undergo the Airborne Infantry Course (16 weeks), to qualify as members of the Regiment. The Airborne School is also responsible for running the Airborne Infantry Course, which instructs soldiers on advanced fieldcraft, marksmanship, gunnery, small party leadership, explosives, and advanced airmobile techniques such as sling-loading helicopters and helocasting.