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**Shek** · 24 Jan 06,, 18:33

The military training time is grossly underestimated. For officers, the time spent in pre-commissioning programs, officer basic training, advanced courses, specialized courses, staff colleges, and war colleges aren't included. For enlisted troops, time spent in advanced individual training, specialized course, and developmental leadership courses aren't included.

For example, I spent 4 years in my pre-commissioning training, 1 year in my officer basic training and specialized tactics courses, nearly a year in my advanced course, and have spent a year and a half in graduate training specifically for future military jobs. Of my first 14 years on active duty military service, I will have spent 7 years training for my profession.

**~~Bluesman~~** · 25 Jan 06,, 02:46

One of the things that landed me my post-military job was being able to lay an inch-high stack of Air Force training certificates down in front of my interviewer. I spent over a year learning Vietnamese (immersion-style: eight hours a day in class, studying every evening), and then another four months in crypto skool. Survival skool, upgrade training, RIVET JOINT instruction, adjunct faculty training for the National Cryptologic Skool, and about a cool hundred classified programs across all of the 'INTs.

shek has the bubble: training is constant and intense in the military. Colleges and trades WISH they could make you work that hard.

**lemontree** · 25 Jan 06,, 05:21

Originally posted by shek

The military training time is grossly underestimated. For officers, the time spent in pre-commissioning programs, officer basic training, advanced courses, specialized courses, staff colleges, and war colleges aren't included. For enlisted troops, time spent in advanced individual training, specialized course, and developmental leadership courses aren't included.

For example, I spent 4 years in my pre-commissioning training, 1 year in my officer basic training and specialized tactics courses, nearly a year in my advanced course, and have spent a year and a half in graduate training specifically for future military jobs. Of my first 14 years on active duty military service, I will have spent 7 years training for my profession.

Very true and you have not even added the specialist weapons courses that officers do!...it goes on an on. The amount one has to study in the army, is sufficient to make a person a rocket scientist if he/she does the same amount in a college or university.

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