To: softwarecreator
Basic Training is approximately 9 weeks. Then you go for training in your specialty: at least another 8-9 weeks. Only after that do most US troops get to their units, where they go into a few more months of training.
Soldiers are not made overnight.
4 posted on
01/11/2006 4:28:19 PM PST by
bnelson44
(Proud parent of a tanker! (Charlie Mike, son))
To: bnelson44
Only after that do most US troops get to their units, where they go into a few more months of training. Okay. Maybe because of a lack of qualified Iraqi instructors, it's taking them a bit longer too.
Thanks for the info.
6 posted on
01/11/2006 4:31:13 PM PST by
softwarecreator
(Facts are to liberals as holy water is to vampires.)
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