The United States Military Academy (USMA) at West Point
military program provides operations officers for the
following Cadet Summer Training events comparable to
Battalion and Brigade levels of responsibility. It involves
first, second, and third year cadets.
First Summer Cadet
Basic Training is a complex, demanding progression of
sequenced training requirements and events, which form the
foundation for all future instruction at the United States
Military Academy. It trains, instructs, inspires, and
transitions New Cadets from civilians to cadets and begins
to inculcate the fundamental military skills and values
necessary to develop leaders of character strongly committed
to military service. At its conclusion, new cadets obtain
the skills and competences necessary to receive academic,
military, physical, and character instruction from the USMA
staff and faculty.
Second
Summer Cadet Field Training is a three-to-four
week program of instruction that emphasizes general military
skills, individual preparedness training, preparations for
extended field operations, and leading, participating in,
and conducting small unit tactical operations. The purpose
of Cadet Field Training is to develop, train, test, and
validate specific tasks; prepare Third Class cadets to
assume duties as NCOs in the Corps of Cadets; instill the
warrior ethos in each cadet; and inspire each cadet to
professional excellence through physically- and mentally
demanding training.
Third
Summer Cadet Leader Development Training trains,
mentors, and assesses basic leadership skills focusing on
Troop Leading Procedures (TLPs), effective communication,
and tactical decision making in order to develop competent
and confident small unit leaders capable of operating in an
uncertain and rapidly changing environment. In a series of
tactical scenarios that reflect the Decisive Action Training
Environment, cadets experience a minimum of two assessed
leadership positions which provides the cadet with a common
experience to further enhance his/her leadership ability to
solve difficult tactical problems.
United States
Military Academy video by Carmine Cocchia, U.S. Army
August 2017
