AR 600-20 as well as AR 350-1
AIT
9 weeks of Basic Training followed by 5 weeks of AIT Infantry School. This will be done simultaneously non-stop. So a total of 14 weeks all together.
For the US Army during the Vietnam War, men went to boot camp (called Basic Infantryman Combat Training). After successfully completing boot camp, they went to AIT; Advanced Individual Training. 1. AIT-Armor Crewman (tank crewmen) 2. AIT-Infantryman (grunt) 3. AIT-Engineers 4. AIT-Cooks 5. AIT-Truck drivers 6. AIT-Artilleryman 7. AIT-Mortarman 8. AIT-Medic etc.
The length of your Advanced Individual Training is dependent upon which MOS you enlisted as. Different occupations require different amounts of training, hence the length of AIT varies between occupations.
In AIT you'll probably only use iron sights, which you need to get the hang of before you move to reflex sights and optics.
No, it is not, although some MOS have an AIT in which you receive some college credit for completion. @BurningSaviour Do you learn as much?
EVERY occupation in the Army requires you go through AIT for that occupational specialty.
Depends. Automatic promotion is six months in service, if I remember correctly, so if your AIT takes you past that point, you'll be promoted during your AIT. If you have less than six months in at the end of your AIT, your instructors may decide to promote you meritoriously if they feel you've earned it.
After basic training (boot camp), you go to AIT (Advanced Individual Training), where you are shipped somewhere to go to school for your MOS (your job). You still live in barracks under the nose of drill seargeants, but is a lot more lax. You even get to go out on the base some weekends and do what you want. Then you are shipped to your unit (or you go home if you are Reserve).
Je souhaite qu'il n'y ait pas école demain means 'I wish there were no school tomorrow'
Depends on your MOS. In you're in an MOS which has One Station Unit Training (such as Army infantry), you would simply continue on as you had before, since you do your Basic and AIT in one package. If you had to go to another post for your AIT, then you'd do that.