Instructors advance skills during Cadre Training Course - Sept. 23, 2014

Virginia Army National Guard senior noncommissioned officers assigned to the Fort Pickett-based 2nd Battalion, 183rd Regiment, Regional Training Institute participate in the Cadre Training Course Sep. 23, 2014, at Fort Pickett, Va. A total of 22 students expect to complete the weeklong course, which teaches a variety of helpful tools, knowledge and the fundamentals of assuming responsibilities of a Basic Combat Training, Advanced Individual Training or One Station Unit Training Company.

The RTI includes 74 instructors supported by 32 staff personnel. The schoolhouse was completed in 2011 and includes approximately 400,000 square feet of instruction space, including a combatives training room, eight modular classrooms and a lecture hall capable of accommodating 480 students, along with three barracks with two-person rooms and open bay housing that can accommodate 275 students. At Fort Pickett, instructors and students can reach training sites within five minutes and that includes a variety of ranges, convoy and live fire lanes, an urban assault course, training villages, field training lanes, an air assault tower and an extensive urban training site.