New cadets will begin arriving in a few short hours for R-Day, but those upperclass cadets serving as the cadet cadre for Cadet Basic Training (CBT or “Beast”) have been preparing for this event for the past two weeks. Eight CBT companies, each comprised of 30 cadre members, have been training with tactical officers and noncommissioned officers since June 17 on CBT lessons such as basic rifle marksmanship, communications, and the Leaders Reaction Course, lessons they will need to teach to the new cadets during Beast. “They know ‘do,’ but not necessarily ‘teach,’” said Sergeant First Class Jon Waterhouse, the senior noncommissioned officer for E-Company. “All the training is outcomes based; we tell them what we want out of it in the end, and the cadre need to figure out the smartest way to achieve the outcome.” Over the course of the summer, I will be reporting on the cadet leaders of E-Company, detailing the ways in which they train the new cadets to learn basic military skills and thus build their own leadership skills in the process.
↧
CBT Training and R-Day Rehearsal
↧