Course Description: Chilean Mountain School trains Soldiers to survive in the mountains and fight in mountainous terrain. Training includes traveling on ski and snowshoes, practical avalanche and terrain knowledge, and constructing emergency shelters. Soldiers also learn how to quickly locate and rescue victims of avalanches.
Course Description: Ecuadorian Jungle School is a warfare / survival school that teaches trainees how to move in the jungle and find shelter from the elements, as well as how to obtain sustenance and even natural remedies from their environment.
Course Description: The goal of the alpine training is to train Soldiers to survive in the mountains and fight in mountainous terrain. Training includes traveling on ski and snowshoes, practical avalanche and terrain knowledge, and constructing emergency shelters. Soldiers also learn how to quickly locate and rescue victims of avalanches.
Course Description
French Commando) Training includes mountaineering, shooting, explosives and demolition training, hand to hand combat skills, rappelling, aquatic tactics and leading.
Sandhurst is 3-4 week IAD(M) that culminates in a 2 week field exercise in Scotland -- the graduation requirement for British Cadets. Common knowledge includes land navigation in an unfamiliar area, basic battle drills, and overall disciplines required in the field. Operations to take place: reconnaissance, ambush, operating out of a combat outpost, on guard and watch, observation positions, patrols; and all other basic missions and tactical tasks.
Course Description: (SERE-C) Intensive training in support of the Code of Conduct. Training includes survival field craft skills, techniques of evasion, resistance to exploitation, and resolution skills in all types of environments. Students will participate in a survival and evasion Field Training Exercise and in a Resistance Training Laboratory. Training will take place at Fort Bragg, NC or Fort Rucker, AL.
Course Description: The Combat Divers Qualification Course is a 6 week course located in Key West, Fl. Focusing on water infiltration using open and closed circuit breathing apparatus, boat movement, and surface swims. Other points of instruction are rescue swimmer, team and individual searching techniques, ship bottom search, and Beach Landing Site (BLS) procedures.
Course Description: UND Aerospace is an international leader in collegiate and contract aviation education. With more than 120 aircraft conducting over 100,000 hours of flight training per year, UND Aerospace is one of the largest flight schools in the world. UND's main campus is in Grand Forks, North Dakota, at the University of North Dakota. with satellite schools located in: Lumberton, NC, Spokane, WA, Phoenix, AZ, Crookston, MN and Williston, ND. UND Aerospace also conducts factory training for Cirrus Aircraft in Duluth, MN.
Course Description: The Pre-Ranger Course consists of 14 days of training. The first week is designed to mirror the first week of Ranger School's (Benning) phase. The second week is designed to Coach, Teach, and Mentor students during the patrol phase of the course. The purpose of the Pre-Ranger Course (PRC) is to prepare Soldiers to succeed at the US Army Ranger School. Pre-Ranger accomplishes this by assessing the Soldiers' physical and mental capabilities, training the Soldiers on Troop Leading Procedures, Combat Orders and Reconnaissance/Combat patrols to the same standards conducted at the US Army Ranger School. Pre-Ranger is designed to verify that all medical/dental and administrative paperwork is complete for Ranger School attendance, and fix any deficiency that the Soldier may have. Students will be required to pass the minimum Ranger Physical Fitness Test of 49 push-ups, 59 sit-ups and 5 mile (release) run in 40:00 minutes or less. In addition to the RPFT, students will be evaluated at the Combat Water Survival Test, Land Navigation, Road March, Ranger Stakes, Obstacle Course, Patrols, and Peer Evaluations.
Course Description: A pathfinder is a paratrooper who is inserted or dropped into place in order to set up and operate drop zones, pickup zones, and helicopter landing sites for airborne operations, air resupply operations, or other air operations in support of the ground unit commander. Pathfinders use a wide array of skills including air traffic control, ground-to-air communications, sling load operations and inspections, and drop zone and helicopter landing zone support in order to ensure the mission is a success.
Course Description: The Sapper Leader Course trains selected combat engineer unit leaders in leadership skills, combat engineer and infantry battle drills, and the specialized engineer and infantry techniques required to perform as members of a Sapper Battalion.
Course Description: The SFAS Course assesses and selects soldiers for attendance at the SFQC. This course uses a “Whole Man” selection process that assesses each candidate for six attributes that are important for all Special Forces Soldiers. These attributes are intelligence, trainability, physical fitness, motivation, influence, and judgment. All candidates participate in a variety of activities designed to place them under various forms of physical and mental stress. It assesses potential and qualities through behavioral observation, analysis via performance measure, and recording data. All tasks are performed in a neutral environment with limited information and no performance feedback.
