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Old June 29, 2012, 12:04 PM   #17
BlueTrain
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With some exceptions, advanced training with weapons is no different from basic training with weapons. The only difference is that in the so-called advanced training, you take it seriously. Or so I've heard.

The exceptions would be things like sight adjustments for a rifle and things like that. With targets in handgun self-defense range, it is a much simpler proposition.

There are even levels of training beyond advanced, although that enters the realm of police and military training. It was common at one time, in some armies, for troops to receive some form of basic training (that's common in all armies of course), then some kind of advanced and generally more specialized training. For infantry soldiers, it would include training on a broader selection of weapons. In basic you usually only get training on the rifle. Then, once you got to your permanent unit (permanent being relative), you sometimes received even more training, not counting the training you receive as part of that particular unit (unit training). Most armies have these. It might be some specialized training for assignment to some new kind of unit, such as the "mounted infantry" found in the British army around 1900, or the "designated marksman" training of more recent years in the US Army. The Germans organized what they called battle schools and I believe something similiar was organized by the US Army in WWII. Sniper training is another example.

Curiously, often as not, such high level, advanced training is generally discontinued in peacetime or at least reduced to peacetime levels. Some skills are apparently even difficult to sustain without wartime pressures.
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