Actually it's 10.
Two out of the 10 weeks and
Phase One/Red Phase (weeks one through three
- Fundamentals of soldiering
- Core Army values
- Army traditions and ethics
- What it means to be a soldier
- You’ll also take the Army Combat Fitness Test
Phase Two/White Phase (weeks four through five)
- Self-discipline
- Teamwork
- Combat skills
- Night training
- Hand-to-hand combat and weapons training
- Basic rifle marksmanship
- Physical fitness
- Tip: The best way to make fitness training easier is to work harder.
Phase Three/Blue Phase (weeks six through nine)
- Additional weapons training and rifle marksmanship
- Overview of convoy operations
- Military operations in urban terrain
- Field training exercises
- The final step of the Blue Phase: Pass all 212 tasks of the end-of-cycle test
"riot control" doesn't appear on the training schedule.
Not quite the same thing as a "riot".
And you shouldn't sell them "long"/
Poorly trained, poorly led, soldiers in unfamiliar and threatening situations who are told to carry out vaguely worded and only partially understood instructions seldom come up with efficiency ratings of much better than "massively unsatisfactory".
Indeed. And using a couple of hundred people to arrest a couple of tens of thousands of people is likely to result in a situation that is similar to one that occurred in Vancouver BC several decades ago when a small number of police officers arrested a large number of "squatters". When the cases came on for trial the police officers were unable to identify any of the (several dozen) accused people who were sitting in the courtroom waiting for their case to be called as the specific "malefactor" that had actually been a "squatter" (rather than simply some innocent passerby who got swept up in the "vacuum cleaner approach" to law enforcement that had been employed. The result was that ALL of the cases were dismissed.