Initial Training Overview: Job training for this MOS consists of nine weeks of Basic Training, plus 18 weeks of Advanced Individual Training (AIT) at Fort Belvoir, Virginia.
Additional Training Information: Specific formal training opportunities for this MOS, including advanced training courses available at specific points of the soldier's career, can be found on the Army Training Requirements and Resources System (ATRRS) Web Site.
Restrictions: During Basic Training and Advanced Individual Training (AIT), the Army limits a soldier's personal freedom, using a "Phase System," which grants increased freedom, based upon phase of training. For details, see Army Training Phase Restrictions.
Training Details: Course includes instruction on: Extracting terrain data from collateral data sources such as remote sensed imagery and field reconnaissance, recording analysis results into a graphic database, drawing, scribing, digitizing and scanning cultural, topographic, hydrographic and/or other features on overlay/scribing surfaces or in digital formats, performing digital manipulation of topographic information, drawing maps and charts using drafting tools such as easels, templates and compasses, making scale drawings of roads, airfields, buildings and other military projects, conducting land surveys and computing survey results, drawing diagrams for wiring and plumbing of structures, building scale models of land areas that show hills, lakes, roads and buildings, and using aerial photographs to form large photomaps.
