United States Army Infantry School

The United States Army Infantry School is located at Fort Benning, Georgia.

Organization

It is made up of the following components:

• 192d Infantry Brigade (Unit was 'discontinued' on 19 June 2013. Subordinate elements transferred to the 194th Armored Brigade of the Armor School )^[1]
• 197th Infantry Brigade (Reflagged from 29th Infantry Regiment)
  • 1st Battalion (Mechanized/Stryker), 29th Infantry Regiment
    • US Army Infantry Experimental Forces Company
    • Bradley Master Gunner Course
    • Mechanized Leader Course
    • Stryker Leader & Transition Courses
    • Stryker/Bradley Proponent Office
    • Mechanized New Equipment Training Company
  • 2nd Battalion, 29th Infantry Regiment
    • Small Arms Ranges, Experimentation and Support
    • Sniper School
    • Combatives School
  • CONUS Replacement Center (CRC)
• 198th Infantry Brigade (Reflagged from Infantry Training Brigade (ITB))
  • 1st Battalion, 19th Infantry
  • 2nd Battalion, 19th Infantry
  • 1st Battalion, 50th Infantry
  • 2nd Battalion, 58th Infantry
  • 2nd Battalion, 54th Infantry
  • 2nd Battalion, 330th Infantry (USAR)^[2][3]

For new recruits specializing in infantry, the ITB conducts fourteen weeks^[4] of One Station Unit Training (OSUT) consisting of both Basic Combat Training (BCT) and Advanced Individual Training (AIT). The mission of the Infantry Training Brigade is to transform civilians into disciplined infantrymen that possess the Army Values, fundamental soldier skills, physical fitness, character, confidence, commitment, and the Warrior Ethos to become adaptive and flexible infantrymen ready to accomplish the mission of the infantry.

• 199th Infantry Brigade (Reflagged from 11th Infantry Regiment)
  • HHC, 199th Bde
    • Maneuver Captains Career Course
    • International Student Training Detachment
    • Officer Candidate School
  • 1st Battalion, 11th Infantry (Basic Officer Leader Course II (BOLC II)) (inactivated 23 March 2010)^[5]
  • 2nd Battalion, 11th Infantry (Infantry Basic Officer Leader Course (IBOLC))
  • 3rd Battalion, 11th Infantry (Officer Candidate School) (OCS)
  • 2nd Squadron, 16th Cavalry Regiment (Armor Basic Officer Leaders Course (ABOLC))
  • 3rd Battalion, 81st Armor Regiment (MCoE Provost)^[6]
  • Henry Caro Non-Commissioned Officers Academy^[7]
    • Maneuver Senior Leaders Course (M-SLC), formerly Advanced Noncommissioned Officer Course (ANCOC)^[8]
    • Advanced Leaders Course (ALC), formerly Basic Noncommissioned Officer Course (BNCOC)^[9]
    • Warrior Leader Course (WLC), formerly Primary Leadership Development Course (PLDC)^[10]
• Airborne and Ranger Training Brigade^[11]
  • 4th Ranger Training Battalion (Camps Rogers and Darby)
  • 5th Ranger Training Battalion (Camp Frank D. Merrill)
  • 6th Ranger Training Battalion (Camp Rudder, Auxiliary Field 6, Eglin Air Force Base, Florida)
  • Reconnaissance and Surveillance Leaders Course (RSLC)
  • 1st Battalion, 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment
    • Basic Airborne School
    • Jumpmaster School
    • Pathfinder School
    • Silver Wings (MCoE Command Exhibition Parachute Team)
• Combined Arms and Tactics Directorate (CATD)
• Directorate of Operations and Training/G-3
  • Training Support Center
• Office of Infantry Proponency (OIP) "Warrior Ethos" program that was launched in 2003 by the United States Army.

Infantry officers who have completed commissioning and the Basic Officer Leadership Course then attend the Infantry Officer Basic Leadership Course in 2nd battalion. This is a course of instruction, as the name implies, in basic infantry skills, including marksmanship, machine gunnery, tactics, and planning.

The brigade also conducts specialized training for soldiers in Basic Airborne, Pathfinder, and Jumpmaster Courses.

Chief of Infantry

The Chief of Infantry is the proponent of the school^[12] and its commandant.

No.	Image	Name	Start	End
1		Major General Charles S. Farnsworth[13]	1920
		Major General Stephen Odgen Fuqua[14]	1929
6		Major General Courtney Hodges	1941	1942 Office Abolished
		Major General John W. Foss[15]		1985
47		Major General Benjamin Freakley[16]	2003	2005
48		Major General Walter Wojdakowski[17]	2005	2008
49		Major General Michael Barbero[17]	2008	2009[18]
50		Major General Michael Ferriter[19]	2009	2009
51		Brigadier General Bryan Owens[20]	2009	2011
52		Brigadier General Walter Piatt[21][22]	2011	2012
53		Brigadier General David B. Haight[23]	2012	2013
54		Colonel Robert E. Choppa[24]	2013	2014
55		Brigadier General James E. Rainey[25]	2014	Current

References

See also

• Basic Officer Leaders Course
• United States Army branch insignia
• Coats of arms of U.S. Infantry Regiments
• Guidon (United States)
• Combat Infantryman Badge
• Blue Infantry Cord

External links

• Infantry School homepage
• U.S. Army Infantry School
• Official site of the Infantry Training Brigade

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