11/17/2023 0 Comments 12d mos army![]() ![]() Soldiers going through Phase I of Army Engineer Dive School honed their performance skills with the assistance of Performance Experts, or PEs, from the Fort Leonard Wood R2 Performance Center. The ASST has five events including an underwater breath hold in which the trainees, in their full uniform, descend to the bottom of a 14-foot pool and swim the entire width of the pool on a single breath, touching the first and last of seven lane lines, before ascending. They also need to pass the Class I Advanced Survival Swimmer Test. The recruits have to pass a Diver Physical Fitness Test that, besides curl-ups and pushups, includes a timed 500-yard swim using the breast or side stroke, six pull-ups and a 1.5 mile run in 12 minutes and 30 seconds or less. Bailey, noncommissioned officer in charge and master diver for the 12D Phase I course, said a lot of the recruits arrive for training ill-prepared for what awaits them. Although nine graduated Phase I of their Advanced Individual Training, or AIT, only the six went on to graduate from Phases II and III held at the Naval Diving and Salvage Training Center in Panama City Beach, Florida. In fiscal year 2018, only six enlisted soldiers attained the 12D (Engineer Diver) military occupational specialty. Army Engineer Dive School at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. The journey to become an Army diver begins (and often ends) at the Phase I course of the U.S. The hopefuls are often overcome, physically and mentally, by rigorous drills meant to winnow down recruits to the elite few. More than 90 percent of those who attempt to become an Army diver fail in the first 14 days of training.
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