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"Give it a Go!"
1 INFANTRY STANDARD COURSE: A STUDENT'S VIEW BY CPL PAUL MILLAR PHOTOS ARMN BILLY DOYLE
Destroy! Delay! Sustain!
Suppress! Block! Blind! all mission verbs that we as students on the 1st Infantry Standard Course had become used to during our tenure with the NCO Training Wing. Coupled with an inexhaustible list of military acro- nyms, we were thinking and speaking in army shorthand, a language that few
others could understand. But after nine weeks on the All-Arms Standard Course, followed by seven weeks on this one, at times we were lucky to have the energy to talk. The Inf Std Cse is based on an entirely
new syllabus and structure, which can be accessed via the intranet. But in a nutshell it consists of two weeks of lec-
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tures and five weeks of tactics. The first two lecture-based weeks were mainly aimed at improving our grasp of the seven-question combat estimate from the All-Arms Course and on refining our drills and SOPs to make the subsequent weeks flow smoother. There was also a small exercise on week one followed by a severe loaded march, and we learned
