Key areas of training include obstacle course, repelling, rigging, and helicopter slingloading, and a 12-mile march. Students are evaluated at the end of each training phase. This two-week course emphasizes military mountaineering. This course is taught at the Northern Warfare Training Center, Fort Greely, Alaska, and lasts three weeks. The course is intended to familiarize junior leaders with military operations in northern areas.
Emphasis is placed on movement in mountainous terrain, on glaciers, and on inland waterways.
If a cadet is assigned to a unit on parachute status and the cadet is already airborne qualified, the cadet may participate in unit parachute jumps with approval from the commanding officer. No student will be commissioned as an officer in the U.S. Army if not in good academic standing at the time of commissioning, even if the student has finished all military science academic requirements. Students must receive the bachelor s degree to be commissioned. The chairperson of the military science department admits all Advanced Course students to the program, continuously monitors their progress, disenrolls marginal performers, and certifies each candidate for a commission. Franklin College Students enroll in military science courses through the Consortium for Urban Education, Indianapolis, and the registrar s office.