Navy AIRR Pipeline and Training | How Hard Is It?

I try to briefly answer the question as to how hard the Navy’s AIRR program is. The only people who should give the opinions are those who’ve made it fully and not just gone through it.

[Astronaut_Bear]

served proudly for 13 years with my gold wings

[codyconnor]

Just graduated! The pipeline actually is boot camp, rescue swimmer school, candidate school, A school, sere school, then FRS!

[adrianed]

Found this in researching .. preparing my momma heart because my son is wanting to take this route. He's headed to MEPS next week. After that I guess he'll really know. In the meantime, I'm learning all I can. * breath * Thanks for this - I wanna be prepared as a momma. <3

[BeatsbyDskoov]

Goin to bootcamp here soon and so far off all the navy videos this one has me almost intrigued just dealing with the confidence aspect man and overthinking

[calebpohlmeyer]

Great video! I’m currently in Pensacola for RSS candidate school and two things that have changed. 1:RSS is about 8 weeks now (6 without SAR Prep) and it could be 10 if you have a 4 week SAR Prep. And they changed the RSS and NACCS schools. They flipped them because too many aircrew were failing RSS so we were getting too many aircrew. Then again this is a great video! Lots of useful information in it. Hope to come back in about 10 ish weeks to say I passed RSS! Thanks again for the great video!

[pinnacledivingco]

What you called "800" divisions used to be "900" divisions when I went through back in 2001. And the pipeline you described has certainly changed significantly in 22 years. Seems less, shorter, and more direct. LOL!

[galoki]

my son is heading into AIRR, at RTC right now. He was Delayed Entry and got to train several days a week to prepare. (Warrior Challenge Program) he met Special Ops physical requirements there.

[JasonVance-by]

FANTASTIC video! Great easy to understand advice

[David-uyjz]

I went through acs back in 91. That included sere school in Brunswick. After acs in Pensacola it was on to Millington for a school. My rate was AD

[sobeitx]

I’m a year late but super informative video. Awesome

[Bpilot]

Petra is very cute! Very interested in the new helmet you have on in your intro? I hope you have the back issue documented on your retirement physical…You might be permanent100% shipmate…Pipeline 1982: Bootcamp at RTC Orlando, NACCS at Pensacola, AW “A” school at NATTC Millington, Rescue Swimmer School HC-1 at NASNI, SERE FASOTRAGRUPAC at NASNI, AW “Common Core” at NASNI, FRAC HSL-31 (SH-2F)….Started pipeline January 1983 PCS HSL-37 Hawaii March 1984. Was very fortunate, no rollbacks or admin/medical holds…Sounds like things are relatively the same nowadays. When I was in bootcamp there was no differentiation of recruits based upon your enlistment contract. We did have a SEAL (GMG1 Hurt) that supervised our PT/Swimming while at “A” school…Class was 0600-1200, lunch and report to pool at 1300 until 1500. Very interesting video…You’re helping the next generation to succeed in the Navy…

[washusan]

Been watching your channel on and off. I appreciate how you give insight into the AWS rating. It is indeed an awesome rate. I was one of those unicorns that graduated from FRS and got shore duty orders due to a lucky co-location chit with my wife who was also a naval Aircrewman. Pardon my french but the Shore duty fucking sucked. I might not have had what it took to be a HRA (helicopter rescue aircrewman) but I had the heart to be. Long story short, I was black-balled the moment I arrived on base at my first duty station which was shore duty. Had a dude that had been a AW for a hot minute tell me straight to my face if I had gotten any other orders other than the duty station I got, I would have been A-okay. Anyways, I watch your videos because it takes me back, I missed the stress of AIRR school, loved the BS workouts and the underwaters. That shit got me hyped. Anyways, I completely agree with your frustration even though I didn't make shit of it when I was in, I have always pushed myself in life no matter what. Now I'm three months away from graduating Nursing school and already have a job lined up working in the emergency department at the hospital I work for. I say fuck the haters, I'm gaining my wings with or without them. Sights are on civilian sector of rescue aviation since I didn't cut it for the Navy. Not to mention I train with guns on the regular as well. I have always loved my country and will always be ready to defend her under contract or not. Thank you for representing on Youtube. Take care.

[SethMorrison-me]

thank you for this video, my ASVAB score for SEAL was too low, and I only qualified for AIRR so they recommended to do that, then cross rate to SEAL

[TooFrozLy]

800 divisions ain’t spec war no more, turned into future sailor divisions

[phillipbeatty]

Difficulty is subjective, but for me it was not hard. It’s not a cake walk, but it’s not hard with the right mentality. Quite simple.

Any of the special programs (SEAL/SWCC/SAR/EOD) are very simple if not easy. It’s all about mentality. If you focus on long term and all of the challenges involved, it will be practically impossible and unbearable.

It is all about consistency and breaking it down into immediate focus. By that I mean don’t think about anything except the task in front of you. Even then, there are some tasks that are imposing and elicit thoughts of impossibility. When you get those feelings, break it down into 30 second intervals. For example, on the long buddy tow, one pass down the pool is about 30 seconds. So tell yourself “just this pass”, then get down to the wall, turn around and do it again.

The most memorable instance of this, and where it clicked for me was when we had to tread and float while keeping a parachute out of the pool water. It was impossible. Within a couple seconds the chute was touching the water. At that moment it started sinking and became almost impossible to keep it up. I kept going for 30 seconds at a time at which point I got a boost simply because I finished that 30 seconds. That continued until the instructors told us to stop. It felt like it was 5 minutes. The actual time was 45 minutes.

Be consistent. Meet every challenge with extreme focus. Get rid of the fear and just. Don’t. Quit.

The only other thing I would mention that involves difficulty is that in BUD/s, you need to be ready for phase two. It’s not as simple as just not quitting in five phase. You need to be able to be underwater for an above average amount of time. Not just be comfortable in the water, but to be constantly pushing the limits of breath holding while underwater. Being physically fit when you get there can help you make it, but if you have skimped on training in the pool, or have never trained in the pool prior to BUD/s, it will be much more difficult. Nothing will make it easy, but you can definitely make it manageable by spending time in the pool consistently well before arriving at BUD/s.

[swingman]

Wow have things changed! When I went through it was the old system. I'm curious to when everything changed. I went to NACCS which is what aircrew school used to be. Then RSS after. Then AW A school. Aw didn't have different meanings then. AW was just one rate. If you were rescue swimmer you were on the helicopters and if you went from aircrew school straight to A school you ended up on P3 hunting subs. Watching these videos it looks like everyone goes through rescue swimmer school now and Romeo's are hunting subs on helicopters now instead of P3.

Also your pipeline is different that it seems you don't go through Sere school anymore with the other SOC ratings? We went through Sere either after A school of there was availability, or after we got our wings at the final school. Then went to our final command.

[willhelmus]

I feel you had a missed opportunity to educate this chat at the part where someone was interested in becoming a SEAL after aircrew. When I was at NACCs more than half of my class were Buds duds, not the other way around. Meaning shoot for the starts and if you fail the navy will give you another chance, and most all get a second shot at aircrew, wet that is but maybe even a dry contract.

[jayhawkbosun]

Appreciate the video, I was curious how difficult NACCS is physically and what I can do to prepare? I'm doing around 50-60 pushups and 7 minute miles but want to make sure I'm not signing a contract being over-confident and going in underprepared. Not doing the AIRR Pipeline, just signing as an AWR

[AlfredoAcosta]

Super cool and great informational video,

I have a couple questions? Can I be red green colorblind and do this or do I need a waiver?

Final question what color blind test does the navy use?

Thank You!

[Weiisii]

Do you need a asvab of 60 or 40 to be awr?