Time in the Field, Longer School. The Army's Basic Leader Course May Get a Big Overhaul.

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Time in the Field, Longer School. The Army's Basic Leader Course May Get a Big Overhaul.
 
Military.com | By Steve Beynon

Army leaders are weighing whether to revamp the service's Basic Leader Course to include more time in the field -- and that could mean longer school, too.

The potential overhaul of the course, or BLC, would be part of the service's effort to get all of its troops more extensive combat training, as well as a broader shift away from counterterrorism operations and toward conventional warfare.
 
The 22-day school is a requirement for soldiers to be promoted to sergeant, a pivotal transition in which soldiers would then hold a leadership role and be effectively responsible for the professional development and well-being of others. But now virtually all of that required schooling is spent in the classroom.

"One of the things we're looking to improve on is field craft," Sergeant Major of the Army Michael Grinston told reporters Wednesday. "We're calling it Basic Leader Course 3.0. At some point, we took out the field training exercise, and we're looking to bring it back."

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2022/10/13/time-field-longer-school-armys-basic-leader-course-may-get-big-overhaul.html

[sneakypete]

The 22-day school is a requirement for soldiers to be promoted to sergeant,

Sumbodie korect me ifn ahm wrong,but hit seems ta me lak mos ob da soljurs weeze sendin to Shitstainistan git a hell of a lot more that 22 days experience on a normul tour.

In short,they MUST be talking about soldiers who are NOT "combat arms" soldiers. Combat Arms soldiers spend the majority of their time running actual combat missions or mock combat missions in training.