“Experience is the best teacher…”–Ben Franklin
If Benjamin Franklin’s maxim is correct, then the cadets participating in Cadet Leader Development Training (CLDT) are in the best classroom possible, all 16,000 acres of it. CLDT is the pinnacle of the Cadet Summer Training experience. Over the course of 19 days, six companies comprised mostly of rising firsties and a few rising cows are engaged in three simulated, yet realistic, training modules that are designed to test everything they have learned related to leadership from the West Point experience.