SLC Provides Soldiers Selected for Promotion to Sergeant First Class with an Opportunity

Course Overview

SLC provides Soldiers selected for promotion to Sergeant First Class with an opportunity to acquire the leader technical and tactical values, attributes, skills, and actions (VASA) needed to lead a platoon size unit. SLC includes branch-specific technical training.

The 12B/C SLC course is an 8 week USAES course taught at the Maneuver Support Center of Excellence NCO Academy. It employs classroom instruction using the Small Group process technique and Small Group Instruction (SGI) with practical applications, performance evaluations, and testing. Training focuses on:

· General Engineering

· Combat Engineering

· Military Load Classification (MLC)

· Fixed Bridging

· Float Bridging

· Tactics

· CIED

· STX consisting of Sewage, Water, Electricity, Academics, Trash (SWEAT) Assessment