Summer Training Opportunities

Leader's Training Course (Up to 7 Credit Hours)

A paid, five week Army internship in a field environment at Fort Knox, Kentucky. This is an opportunity to develop basic leadership skills while experiencing life on a major Army installation. In addition, students have the opportunity to compete for hundreds of available scholarships. Students must have at least 54 credit hours completed and two years of additional studies to attend. Completion of the Leader's Training Course satisfies all basic course requirements and allows progression into the advanced course. Ask about the $5000 bonus.

MS 302 Advanced Leadership Practicum
(Leader Development and Assessment Course) (6 Credit Hours)

A paid, five week practical training exercise in a field training environment at Fort Lewis, Washington to develop, demonstrate, and evaluate leadership capabilities. Required for all students during the summer between their junior and senior year prior to commissioning as officers. MS 303 Special Topics: Leadership Assessment Program 3 credit hours designed to examine more advanced use of US Army leadership assessment techniques and procedures to further develop student leadership skills.

MS 305 Battle Analysis (1 credit hour)

Students learn the "Staff Ride" methodology and develop critical thinking, briefing and writing skills used in a formal analysis of a military battle.

Airborne School

 Airborne Skill Badge

This is a three-week school conducted at Fort Benning, Ga. Cadets in good physical condition may compete for a school allocation. At Airborne school, cadets will train alongside Regular Army officers and enlisted men and women, as well as members of the other armed services, to jump from an Air Force aircraft (C130 and C141). Upon completion of the course, cadets will earn the coveted jump wings and be parachutist qualified. This course is extremely safe and boosts the confidence of all who have the opportunity to attend.

Air Assault School

The Air Assault school, conducted at Fort Campbell, Ky., is two weeks of mental and physical challenges. This school is designed to teach air assault skills and procedures, improve basic leadership skills, instill the Air Assault spirit, and award the Air Assault Badge.

This course, like Airborne, is a fast-paced exercise in mental alertness and physical endurance. You must meet the high standards of the soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) prior to being awarded the Air Assault Badge. Cadet application requirements include the following: successful completion of the Army Physical Fitness test; have a valid medical exam stating "Qualified for Air Assault"; and be able to run at least four miles within a limited time.

Air Assault Skill Badge 

 

Northern Warfare School

This is a two-week course, taught at the U.S. Army Northern Warfare Training Center, Fort Greely, Alaska. It teaches students survival techniques in northern climates, as well as basic skills of military mountaineering. Subjects include rock and ice climbing, cold weather survival, rappelling and inland waterway operations. Cadets attending Northern Warfare School must be graduates of LDAC.

Mountain Warfare School

Mountain Warfare School is a two-week course taught by the Vermont National Guard at Ethan Allen Firing Range in Jericho, Vt. Both a summer and a winter phase are offered. The training is designed to make you an expert in mountain operations. Mountain Warfare School is both physically and mentally demanding. Training is non-stop, 15 hours per day, for 14 days. Cadets attending Mountain Warfare training must be in top-notch physical condition. The majority of this course is not taught in a garrison environment. It is a tough, combat arms oriented course, and many of the students are from active Special Forces and Ranger battalions.

Cultural Language Program (CULP)

Adequate cultural awareness training has been provided for cadets in our curriculum, in our training at LDAC, and now via many overseas cultural immersion internship opportunities. Participating cadets develop culture awareness skills and appreciation of cultural differences while recognizing potential cultural impact on assigned missions. Truman has had a Cadet recently go to Slovakia.  Here are some of his experiences in this program.

Cadet Troop Leader Training

The purpose of the CTLT is to expose cadets to the life of a Platoon Leader in an active army TO&E unit, such as the 82nd Airborne Division at Ft. Bragg, and 1st Cavalry Division at Ft. Hood, and the 2nd Infantry Division in Korea. CTLT allows cadets to observe other leadership styles and allow them to develop their own. Cadets must have completed the Leadership Development and Assessment Course to be eligible. The Department of Defense Internships offer opportunities for cadets with special language, technical, or research skills with various agencies to include positions with the Central Identification Laboratory, Defense Information systems Agency, National Ground Intelligence Center, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Army Science Board, U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine. Cadets receive an Officer Evaluation Report (OER) upon completion of CTLT.

Drill Cadet Leadership Training

The 4-week DCLT program provides Cadets serve in a platoon leader or executive officer positions in IMT companies and work closely with Drill Sergeants and other cadre.Cadets experience leadership training with Initial Military Training (IMT) Companies. Positions lengths vary in duration depending on the host unit and location. Cadets an opportunity to apply leadership skills, interact with highly skilled and experienced Noncommissioned Officers (NCOs) and drill sergeants, and improves common task skill proficiency in an Army training environment. Cadets must attend a Staff Cadre Training Course (SCTC) prior to training in IMT units .This program is exclusively designed for MSIII Cadets after completion of LDAC.

Nurse Summer Training Program

Students are provided the opportunity to gain valuable clinical experience and refine leadership, clinical, and administrative nursing skills alongside an Army Nurse Corps officer. This course is clinically focused and based on the preceptor model of teaching. Counts as a Clinical Elective (NU 445).

Army Intern Program

Students get to work on the Department of the Army staff at the Pentagon.

The Sapper Leader Course 

The Sapper Leader Course trains selected combat engineer unit leaders in leadership skills, combat engineer and infantry battle drills, and the specialized engineer and infantry techniques required to perform as members of a Sapper Battalion. The course is also designed to build cohesion and esprit de corps by training soldiers in troop leading procedures, demolitions (conventional and expedient), mountaineering operations, aerial operations, airborne operations, foreign weapons, land navigation, waterborne operations and contingency threat. The course culminates in an intense field training exercise that reinforces the use of the battle drills and specialized engineer techniques learned throughout the course

 

Simultaneous Membership Program (SMP)

Students are aloud to combine service in the Army National Guard or the college Army ROTC Program. When the student graduates, they commission as a Second Lieutenant in the National Guard or Reserve. The student attends the regular Army ROTC classes at the college while training with their Guard or Reserve unit one weekend a month and two weeks during the summer. If a student is already a member of the Army National Guard or Reserve, they may apply for SMP through the commanding officer.