{"id":80190,"date":"2018-06-26T09:50:19","date_gmt":"2018-06-26T13:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=80190"},"modified":"2018-06-26T10:10:39","modified_gmt":"2018-06-26T14:10:39","slug":"army-to-add-8-weeks-to-infantry-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=80190","title":{"rendered":"Army to add 8 weeks to infantry training"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Military.com<\/a> reports that infantry training for new soldiers in that specialty will be extended by two months from the current four-and-a-half weeks to more than 12 weeks;<\/p>\n

Currently soldiers in infantry OSUT go through nine weeks of Basic Combat Training and about 4.5 weeks of infantry advanced individual training. This would add an additional 8 weeks of advanced individual training, tripling the length of the instruction soldiers receive in that phase.<\/p>\n

“It’s more reps and sets; we are trying to make sure that infantry soldiers coming out of infantry OSUT are more than just familiar [with ground combat skills],” Col. Townley Hedrick, commandant of the Infantry School at Benning, told Military.com in a June 21 interview. “You are going to shoot more bullets; you are going to come out more proficient and more expert than just familiar.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m an advocate for more training – more training means less bleeding. The extra training time means that soldiers arriving at their units will be better prepared for deployments sooner.<\/p>\n

With 22 weeks of infantry OSUT, “you can see right off that bat, we are going to have a hell of a lot better soldier,” [Col. Kelly Kendrick, the outgoing commander of 198th Infantry Brigade at Benning] said. “I will tell you, we will produce infantry soldiers with unmatched lethality compared to what we have had in the past.”<\/p>\n

The new pilot will start training two companies from July 13 to mid-December, Kendrick said. Once the new program of instruction is finalized, trainers will start implementing the 22-week cycle across infantry OSUT in October 2019.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I don’t know when infantry training went to 4 1\/2 weeks, it was 8 weeks for me back in the Jurassic Epoch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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