Duration: 11 Weeks

Purpose: This course is designed to provide selected leaders with specialized training in the development of combat staff and leadership skills in the areas of planning, leading, and executing counterdrug operations.

Scope: Training is oriented towards realistic and strenuous field operations in which the student develops counterdrug interdiction operations skills through tough, performance oriented training and are subjected to physical and mentally stressful conditions. This course provides comprehensive and specialized training in counterdrug interdiction operations at the platoon and company level, and emphasizes staff planning and effective execution against realistic targets and objectives. The course includes instruction on discriminative marksmanship, close quarters battle, surveillance and targeting techniques, river operations, development of intelligence networks, preparation of the battlefield, physical fitness/combatives, explosive entry techniques, land navigation, communications, staff organization and planning, special infiltration and exfiltration techniques, and patrolling operations. All instruction is developed to enhance command and control in urban or rural environments. Training is oriented towards realistic and strenuous field operations.

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