The Cavalry School is proud to announce we will be conducting the Basic Armor Crewman Course. The BACC teaches troopers the fundamentals of operating the two main positions in the M1A2 Abrams SEPV2 Main Battle Tank: driver and gunner. Upon completion of this course, troopers will be able to safely drive the M1A2 and operate its gunnery systems in a range of environmental conditions. They will understand the basics of adopting battle and observation positions, safety while operating the vehicle, and tank specific commands and orders. The class is approximately 120 minutes (2 hours) long.
Troopers Will Learn
- Operating components and specifications of the M1A2 Abrams MBT
- Commands for driving
- Commands for gunning
- Responding to TC commands
- Graduated Basic Land Navigation [BLN]
- Graduated Basic Individual Training [BIT]
- Graduated Basic Radio Communication Course [BRCC]
- No active negative action
- Pen and paper
- ArmA 3 installed with the CavPack installed and working
- Minimum of 2 students
- Maximum of 3 students per instructor up to 6 students
- 19K troopers given slotting priority
- 19K troopers exempt from graduation prerequisites
- If you sign up for a class and are unable to attend, please reply in this post letting us know ahead of time so we can give someone else your slot
- Please fill out this Form if you are searching for a better time slot for this class
Corporal Lee Whitfield
Specialist Leonard Eagas
