After speaking to a couple recruiters and finding out they hadn't gotten the memo on this, I just wanted to put out a FYSA. I feel like it's still important for non-recruiters to be aware of this, incase they take part in a discussion online or in person with potential Soldiers. CSM Armstrong's twitter account talked about this at the end of last week and responded to a couple of my DMs to understand details.

Option 1 mimics the path and idea of 'Option 40' like how they wind up at Regiment.

After completing AIT, Soldiers will move to Green Platoon, and then onward to an operational battalion out of Hunter, Campbell, or JBLM. After training pipeline, Soldiers have the opportunity to go to Airborne; select MOS it's mandatory.

Right now this option, Option 1, will only be open to the 15 Series that SOAR has, but they hope to expand this program to all 160th eligible MOS next year.

Official Army.mil Website which also has an email and phone contact, as well as a briefing schedule.

Wikipedia Entry

Full MOS Listing

If anyone has a good green platoon writeup or experience, please let me know. I couldn't find one, despite the fact that green platoon and green platoon trainup gets asked after every so often.

Recruiters...USAREC Proper should be aware of this. If you're not seeing this option let me know, it is supposed to be live, and I haven't seen it talked about yet. There's some follow-up education I believe should be distro'd soon.