SF Phase 2 Training

65 days    MOS    Qualification   

MOS Qualification Phase

For the enlisted soldier, the decision concerning 

The four specialties will be made based on 

Your Training Background, Aptitude,

and Desire and the needs of CMF 18

Training for this phase is  and culminates with a mission planning cycle. During this phase, soldiers are trained in their different specialties:

18A - SF Detachment Commander. Training includes: teaching the officer student the planning and leadership skills he will need to direct and employ other members of his detachment. Training is conducted at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, and is 26 weeks long.

18B - SF Weapons Sergeant. Training includes: Tactics, anti-armor weapons utilization, functioning of all types of U.S. and foreign light weapons, indirect fire operations, manportable air defense weapons, weapons emplacement, and integrated combined arms fire control planning. Training is conducted at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, and is 24 weeks long.

18C - SF Engineer Sergeant. Training includes: Construction skills, field fortifications, and use of explosive demolitions. Training is conducted at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, and is 24 weeks long.

18D - SF Medical Sergeant. Training includes: Advanced medical procedures to include trauma management and surgical procedures. Training is conducted at Fort Bragg, North Carolina and is approximately 57 weeks long.

18E - SF Communications Sergeant. Training includes: Installation and operation of SF high frequency and burst communications equipment, antenna theory, radio wave propagation, and SF communication operations procedures and techniques. Training culminates with an around-the-world communications field performance exercise. Training is conducted at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, and Fort Chaffee, Arkansas, and is 32 weeks long.

 

Specialty training is primarily designed to make students technically proficient in their field. 

However, rigorous physical training and field exercises are incorporated into the training to ready the students for the physical and mental stresses they will encounter in later phases of their qualification course and in operations when they join their units.