Military education and training

{{Short description|Training for military activities}} [[File:Exercise Wessex Storm 2020 MOD 45167357.jpg|thumb|French soldiers training alongside the Parachute Regiment of the British Army]] {{War}}

'''Military education and training''' is a process which intends to establish and improve the capabilities of military personnel in their respective roles. Military training may be voluntary or compulsory duty. It begins with recruit training, proceeds to education and training specific to military roles, and sometimes includes additional training during a military career. '''Directing staff''' are the military personnel who comprise the instructional staff at a military training institution.

In some countries, military education and training are parts of the compulsory education. The organizers believe that military education can bring some benefits and experiences that cannot be obtained from normal class like setback education. Moreover, participants are able to learn survival skills during the military education, like co-operations and resilience, which help participants improve the capabilities of military personnel in their respective roles.

== Recruit training == {{Main|Recruit training}}

left|thumb|US Air Force Senior Airman Jason Via catching up on written work during training.The primary and initial form of military training, recruit training, makes use of various conditioning techniques to resocialize trainees into a military system, to ensure that they will obey all orders without hesitation, and to teach basic military skills.<ref name=":5">{{Cite web|url= http://www.defence.gov.au/publications/docs/LCIreport.pdf|title= Final report of the Learning Culture Inquiry|last= Australia, Department of Defence|date= 2006|access-date= 2017-07-01}}</ref><ref name=":7">{{Cite journal|last=Winslow|first=Donna|date=2004|title=Misplaced Loyalties: The Role of Military Culture in the Breakdown of Discipline in Two Peace Operations|url= http://jmss.org/jmss/index.php/jmss/article/view/214|journal=Journal of Military and Strategic Studies |language= en|volume=6|issue=3|issn=1488-559X|access-date=2018-02-19|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20171224214451/http://jmss.org/jmss/index.php/jmss/article/view/214|archive-date=2017-12-24|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite book|title='Joining the ranks: The role of indoctrination in transforming civilians to service members', (in 'Military life: The psychology of serving in peace and combat [vol. 2]')|last=McGurk|display-authors=etal|publisher=Praeger Security International|year=2006|isbn=978-0275983024|location=Westport|pages=13–31}}</ref><ref name=":3">{{Cite book|title=On killing: the psychological cost of learning to kill in war and society|last= Dave |first=Grossman|date=2009|publisher=Little, Brown and Co|isbn=9780316040938|edition=Rev.|location=New York|oclc=427757599}}</ref><ref name=":4">{{Cite book|title=Squaddies: portrait of a subculture|last= John|first=Hockey|date=1986|publisher=University of Exeter|isbn=9780859892483|location=Exeter, Devon |oclc=25283124}}</ref> Resocialization as a sociological concept involves the process of mentally and emotionally "retraining" individuals so that they can operate in a new environment; it promotes changes to an individual's attitudes and behaviours. The drill instructor has the task of making the service members fit for military use.

== Role-specific training == After their recruit training, personnel may undergo further training specific to their military role, including the use of any specialist equipment. They are then normally deemed fit for military service. [[File:Wessex Storm tests airborne allies MOD 45167577.jpg|thumb|French paratroopers in the Salisbury Plain Training Area during Exercise Wessex Storm.]]

== Further training == thumb|Nepalese soldiers during a training exercise [[File:2013 육군 부사관학교 Republic of Korea Army 2013. 3. 4 육군 부사관학교 Republic of Korea Army Noncommissioned Officer Academy (8933480561).jpg|thumb|ROK army recruits training, May 2014]] Military personnel may continue to receive training during their career.[[File:Огневая подготовка. Казахстан, 2014 год. Полигон Алматинского Института Сухопутных Войск.JPG|thumb|Kazakhstani military personnel at the Almaty Institute of the Kazakh Ground Forces.]]

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