There are 17 AIT schools in the US Army. Headquarters of these and their locations are:
Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Maryland
Carlisle Barracks, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Fort Belvoir, Virginia
Fort Benning, Georgia
Fort Bliss, Texas
Fort Eustis, Virginia
Fort Gordon, Georgia
Fort Huachuca, Arizona
Fort Jackson, South Carolina
Fort Leavenworth, Kansas
Fort Lee, Virginia
Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri
Fort Rucker, Alabama
Fort Sill, Oklahoma
Presidio of Monterey, California
Redstone Arsenal, Alabama
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AIT
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.
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?
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.
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.
It would be illegal for you to get and train a private army.
The length of time of advance individual training (AIT) in the US Army depends on the MOS. Some require only a few weeks, while others may take more than one year.
Unless you enlist you will not go to AIT for ROTC. The enlisted side and officer sides of the military have different training schools. After ROTC you will go to BOLC (Basic Officer Leaders Course) A and B. A is like the officer Basic and B is like officer AIT.
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.