page_title: South African Army Infantry Formation
section_title: Training
hierarchical_section_title: South African Army Infantry Formation / Training
caption_attribution_description: FIB South African soldier during training, Sake, the 17th of July 2013. © MONUSCO/Sylvain Liechti
context_page_description: The South African Army Infantry Formation supervises all infantry within the South African Army.
context_section_description: All basic infantry training is done at 3 South African Infantry Battalion Training Depot at Kimberley. This is a Regular Force unit. Second phase deals with specific equipment, weapons and tactics, general and specific to the type of Infantry, and is dealt with at the unit and its training areas.
  
  Third phase ramps up to a conventional warfare exercise usually held at Lohatla Army Battle School. Tactics such as fire and movement, as well as the amalgamation with other type formations, are done here, with expanding the scope from the squad to section to the platoon to company, battalion, and brigade exercises. 
  
  More specialized training is done on an ad-hoc basis.
caption: United Nations Force Intervention Brigade training
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