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Article: A century of training: applying the lessons learned.(Commandant's Note)
- Article from:
- Infantry Magazine
- Article date:
- March 1, 2007
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In April 2007, 100 years ago, the Army established the School Musketry at the Presidio of Monterey, California. This was beginning of the Infantry School. In this Commandant's Note I want to discuss how the Infantry applied lessons learned in combat to improve the training of our Soldiers even as the Infantry School itself evolved over the course of a century.
Friedrich von Steuben began the U.S. Infantry's first systematic training when he drilled George Washington's Continental Army at Valley Forge in 1778. Following the Mexican War the Army's peacetime training continued intermittently until the Civil War, which represented the first confrontation between ...