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• Basic Leaders Course.

The First Army Leadership School. This one-month school trains E-4 Specialists and Corporals how to lead and includes topics such as Leadership, Training management, Map Reading, Land navigation, Drill and Ceremony, War fighting. E-4 Specialists and Corporals wanting to be an E-5 Sergeant are required to take this course prior to being promoted.

• Advanced Leaders Course

Common Core an MOS focused. The Advanced Leaders Course Common core (DL) is designed to enable all promotable SGT's and non-promotable SGT's to perform as squad leaders and supervisors who can visualize, analyze, apply and adapt to today's Operational Environment (OE). This course produces battle competent NCO's who are qualified squad/section sergeants, team/section leaders, evaluators, counselors, conductors or participants in individual and collective training, and performers/teachers of leader values, attributes, skill and actions. The course supports the Army Chief of Staff's Training and Leader Development Guidance, Educational Theory and Learning Environment; thereby producing a more competent and capable leader.

• Senior Non-Commissioned Officers Course

Sergeant First Class Training. SLC, an Army branch-specific course, teaches promotable Staff Sergeants (E6) and Sergeants First Class (E7) the leader, technical, and tactical skills required to lead platoons/companies within a career management field.

• Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below.

Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2) is a Linux-based communication platform designed for commanders to track friendly and hostile forces on the battlefield. It increases a vehicle commanders situational awareness of the battlefield by gathering information near real-time based on vehicle locations being updated on the battlefield. This information is viewed graphically, and exchanged via both free and fixed test message formats (instead of verbal collection of reports). The location data for friendly forces is collected through the Enhanced Position Location Reporting System (EPLRS) line of sight tactical radio network and Blue Force Tracking (BFT) satellite network.

• Detailed Recruiter

Serves as the Army's ambassador within the community; recruits, determines applicant enlistment eligibility, counsels applicants on enlistment programs and options, prepares enlistment applications, and processes qualified applicants to enlist in the Army. Accounts for and prepares Future Soldiers for initial entry training; implements and conducts Army awareness programs throughout an area covering 73 square miles with a population of 300,000; maintains a network of influencers to include parents, educators, and community officials in 2 high schools and 2 colleges.

• Total Army Instructor.

The Army Basic Instructor Course is a comprehensive course that trains Active and Reserve component Instructors to deliver battle focused training in the Army School System (TASS). The ABIC consists of planning, preparing and presenting Army training. The basic method for Army instructors is previewing and presenting the task and performing the task to standard during evaluation. This method is enhanced during this course by applying a variety of presentation and practice methods and training techniques. The course also addresses how instructors motivate soldiers and solve soldier performance problems using positive reinforcement, on-the-spot corrections and soldiers counseling. The ABIC stresses standardization in format and content. The course provides the instructor with standardized references and lesson plans for presenting instruction, a training support package with visuals for multi-media use and practical exercise and presentation evaluation forms.

• Army Jumpmaster.

1-507 PIR (United Stated Army Jumpmaster School) trains personnel in the skill necessary to jumpmaster a combat-equipped jump and the proper attaching, jumping, and releasing of combat and individual equipment while participating in an actual jump that is proficient in the duties and responsibilities of the Jumpmaster and Safety; procedures for rigging individual equipment containers and door bundles; personnel parachute components by their specific nomenclature and characteristics; procedures and standards required to conduct a Jumpmaster personnel inspection (JMPI); the duties and responsibilities of the Drop Zone Safety Officer; the presentation of the Jumpmaster briefing and sustained airborne training (SAT); and the execution of the duties of a Jumpmaster and Safetry from a USAF aircraft during a day/night combat equipment jump.

• Rappel Master.

The Rappel Master Course teaches the skills and techniques that are necessary to become a qualified rappel master. Focuses on responsibilities, safety SOP's and regulations, anchor systems, equipment familiarization, inspection and maintenance, ground training, hook up, knots, seat inspection, tower refresher, rappelling and aircraft rigging and control.

• Army Combat Trackers Course.

Combat Tracking is designed to train ground force personnel's visual perception, cognitive and deductive/inductive reasoning abilities to detect, analyze, collect and follow visual cues created by the passage or movement of personnel, vehicles, or animals through an area, battlefield or any tactical environment. The combat Tracker will use visual and technical tracking to close the time-distance gap with combatants to the point of positive identification by directing and positively identifying tracks, prints and impressions. Conclusively linking observations made to enemy combatants or agents. Analyzing and following the chain of evidence between the tracking team and th combatants. Collecting intelligence and information left by combatants to develop a chase profile. Conduct predictive analyses based on the combatant's TTP's, movements, terrain and direction of travel. Tracking is about where they are going, not where they have been. Provide time sensitive intelligence, facilitating integrated targeting, coordination of supporting forces and interdiction (or apprehension) efforts. Identify and confirm enemy network infrastructures i.e., TTP's, lines of communications, safe houses, sources of supply, link-up points and coordination forums in support of future operations to come.

• Close Quarters Marksmanship Course.

The United States Army Marksmanship Unit (USAMU or AMU) is a part of the U.S. Army providing small arms marksmanship training for soldiers and enhancing army recruiting. The unit was originally established in 1956 at the direction of president Dwight D. Eisenhower to the mission of winning international competitions, which at the time was dominated by the Soviet Union. At the 1964 Summer Olympics, the United States won seven medals in shooting, of which six were won by Army Marksmanship Unit members. Unit members have continued to win medals at subsequent competitions. A 2008 New York Tines article notes that the unit has "a reputation as the country's premier training school for competitive shooters." The unit has also trained army snipers and assisted in the development of weaponry.

• Combat Lifesavers Course.

The US Army Combat Lifesavers Course is an official medical training course, intended to provide an intermediate step between the buddy aid-style basic life support taught to every soldier and the advanced life support skills taught only to US Army Combat Medics. Providing at least one soldier in every squad with some ALS training and equipment (focusing on time-sensitive battlefield trauma such as arterial bleeding and blocked airways), creates a company-level organic reserve of trained auxiliary medical personnel, ensures the fastest response time to a wounded soldier on the battlefield and has been statistically proven to reduce the likelihood that a soldier will die while waiting for a battalion medic to arrive. THe CLS course is intended to bridge the gap between the minimally-trained average soldier and the highly trained Combat Medic.

• Combatives Level 1.

The Modern Army combatives Level 1 course is designed to teach soldiers the Basics of self defense and to famiiarize them with the challenges of hand to hand combat under stress and while wearing all of their addigned protective equipment such as Vest, Ammo pouches, Weapons and other worn equipment.

• Unit Movement Officer Deployment Planning Course. Course covers unit deployment planning; unit movement plans; plans and conduct of movement training; COMPASS/AUEL; unit movement automation; preparation of unit supplies and equipment; hazardous cargo by surface mode; plan and conduct CONUS highway operations; convoy documentation; marshalling procedures; use of containers in unit deployment; rail movement planning; railway equipment characteristics and use; blocking, bracing, packing, crating and tie down procedures and equipment for all modes; rail load out exercise; host nation rail; inland waterways, strategic airlift, A/DACG operations, preparation of supplies, equipment and personnel for movement by air, and building a 463L pallet; unit deployment through the sea port of embarkation; use of LOGMARS; port support activity exercise; MAGTF/amphibious shipping; propositioned shipping and theater reception and redeployment. Maintains UMO binders with items such as recall rosters, load card copies, packing lists, transportation requests, special permits and much more.
• Urban Leaders Course, Open to Squad leaders and above, the course focuses on room clearing, door breaching and decision making. This course prepares leaders to improve unit-level urban operations training. The course's breaching instruction, which emphasizes the shotgun and explosive breaching, focuses on door breaches. While an important skill, forces in Iraq and Israel frequently breach walls to create covered movement routes towards an objective or in the defense.
• Light Leaders Land Navigation

Course teaches Soldiers how to navigate using a topographical map, mil-spec lensatic compass and protractor over varied terrain. Navigation techniques using dead-reckoning and the foundations of terrain association and route planning. Tools such as pace counting, hand-rails, boxing-out, search techniques. Night navigation. Coordinate systems (UTM & MGRS). Declination and Navigation psychology.

• Army Cold Weather course

The Cold Weather Course (CWLC) trains squad and platoon-level leaders in the knowledge/skills required to successfully conduct small unit operations in a cold, snow-covered environment. Emphasis is placed on the effects of cold on personnel and materiel, use of basic cold weather clothing and equipment, winter field craft, snowshoe/ski techniques and winter/cold regions navigation and route planning. Attendees will receive comprehensive instruction/training materials enabling them to implement basic cold weather training programs within their units. cold weather risk management procedures are stressed throughout the course of instruction.

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