Duration: 16 Weeks

Purpose: To train lieutenants in basic military skills and prepare them to serve as platoon leaders.

Scope: The course provides training and qualification with the M16 rifle, M203 grenade launcher, M60 machine gun, and familiarization with the M72A2 LAW. Students learn combat lifesaving measures, land navigation techniques, communications, and call-for-fire procedures in preparation for extensive small unit tactical training. During the tactics instruction, students use skills learned during leadership training to perform as leaders of patrols, light infantry squads, and infantry platoons. The training is performance-oriented in a tactical field environment. Students also receive training in military operations in urban terrain (MOUT) and internal defense and development operations.

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(Copied from School of the Americas website, February 1998.)