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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 E-5 Sergeants are required to take this course prior to being promoted. [1]
The Merchant Marine Academy requires an applicant to submit part 1 of the 3 part application prior to receiving a nomination. All these schools have an extremely competitive application process and are ranked annually by U.S. News & World Report and Forbes as some of the most selective colleges and universities in the United States. The average ...
Effective January 1, 1982, the Assistant Secretary of the Army changed the processing stations' names from Armed Forces Examining and Entrance Stations (AFEES) to MEPS. The command's motto is Freedom's Front Door , signifying that a service member's military career starts when they walk through the doors of the MEPS.
DoD schools and enrollment by region as of 2021. The Department of Defense Dependents Schools (DoDDS) are a network of schools, both primary and secondary, that serve the dependents of United States military and civilian United States Department of Defense (DoD) personnel in three areas of the world; Europe, Pacific, and Eastern United States and Caribbean areas.
The Sergeants Major Academy was established by General Order in July 1972 and started educating sergeants major in January 1973 with Class 1 consisting of 105 students. The academy was also given the mission to further the efforts to standardize noncommissioned officer education, resulting in the addition of the Primary Leadership Development ...
The United States Army's Noncommissioned Officer Candidate Course (NCOCC), originally located at Fort Benning, Georgia, was created to fill the Army's critical shortage of junior noncommissioned officers with the best qualified and best trained men available. NCO Candidates (NCOC) allowed to attend the course were selected from volunteers and ...
The order's other main objective is to address machine gun conversion devices. "These machine gun conversion devices, which you can install on an ordinary semi-automatic firearm, turn it into a ...
The United States Army Recruiting and Retention College (RRC), located at Fort Knox, Kentucky, is a satellite school under the United States Army Soldier Support Institute (USASSI) that provides United States Army officers and non-commissioned officers (NCOs) with the knowledge, skills, and techniques to conduct recruiting and career counselor duties for the United States Army and Army Reserve ...