US Army Training Center - Armor Yearbook (Fort Knox, KY)

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Cooking at the Food Service School. ,Aki- THl.0 mi IQCYSHOXY NHPF! N IISY NKIIBL H055 hs Q ,. .. .. .....,.,,., s. W Learning How to Operate a Field Stove. Food Service Course In the Food Service School, the trainee is taught the fundamentals of food preparation in both garrison and field messes. Maximum stress is placed on giving the student the opportunity to actually operate each item of equipment that he will use when he joins his first regular unit. The program of instruction includes meat cutting, pastry baking, small quantity cooking and kitchen operations. Two weeks are devoted to actual preparation of meals in a unit mess. The trainee graduates as a Cook KMOS 94B20J.

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Programmed instruction is the keystone of all clerical instruction at the Training Center. This method allows each student to progress at his own speed, since students begin a new lesson as soon as they turn in a correctly completed one. In this way, students progress directly from the general clerk course QMOS 70Al0j, in which they learn the basics of military administration, to either the clerk-typist course QMOS-7lB20J or Personnel Specialist Course QMOS 7lH2OJ. Lab exercise in the Personnel Administration Course

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gg wifi! The First US Army Noncommissioned Officer Academy offers this two-week course to basic training graduates who have dem- onstrated leadership ability. Final selection is based upon aptitude and intelligence level scores ton tests administered at the Recep- tion Stationj, coupled with trainee peer ratings and the company commander's rec- ommendation. Trainees report for the course imme- diately following basic training and sub- sequently are assigned to USATCA's lst and 2d Brigades for Combat Support or Armorf Reconnaissance Advanced Individual Train- ing. In the course they are taught leadership principles and duties as well as advanced training subjects, and they are given posi- tions as platoon guides and squad leaders in their advanced training company. Noncommissioned Officers Academy WQRQ Leadership trainees receive instruc- tion in the .50 caliber machine gun.