Training school courses

The "J series was introduced into the depots at the same time as at other installations. Courses at special training schools were also initiated. From 1943 until the close of the war, selected depot employees, both military and civilian, were dispatched to the Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, Wisconsin, to take a one-week course in packing and packaging. ... 

Lack of an attempt at systematic school training of CWS nonregular officers in preparation for mobilization duty marked not only the period of partial mobilization, but in fact extended throughout the entire war period. There were on active duty with the CWS, on 31 December 1940, 270 nonregular officers. Not more than half of these officers had ever attended any school course. Except for OCS training, the ratio of nongraduates to all officers on duty increased instead of declined in succeeding years. This situation apparently resulted from want of a clear CWS policy on the school-... 

Compared to the training of junior officers, the school instruction of field grade officers was relatively stabilized. The Advanced Course was not initiated until April 1943, but thereafter it was conducted continuously and with little change. Duration was four weeks. Probably the most important accomplishment of this course was the preparation of CWS officers to pursue the Command and General Staff School courses at Fort Leavenworth. By midsummer 1945, the Advanced Course had graduated 544 students in 22 classes. 

The officer candidate course differed from all other service school courses in that the OCS student was constantly subjected to searching personal scrutiny. The candidate had to satisfy the staff and faculty as to his aptitude for eventual commissioned rank. At best, the initial selection of candidates had been provisional it was the responsibility of the school to determine finally, as a result of close observation over an extended period of time, those who actually were qualified, both mentally and physically, to assume the responsibilities of military leadership. In OCS training the function of separating the fit from the unfit ranked barely second in importance to the function of pedagogy. 

A talented teacher, tutor and lecturer he delivered lectures on general and special courses for university students, and trained his students to expertise of high rank. He supervised 50 PhD and 9 D.Sc theses, and founded the Kyiv. School of Analytical Chemists. 

The viewpoint of this book is first that most of the students who elect to receive some training in air pollution will have previously taken courses in chemistry at the high school or university level, and that those few who have not would be well advised to defer the study of air pollution until they catch up on their chemistry. 

Mentoring has also provided a practical alternative to conventional training courses, which are typically run in a manner resembling school classes (i.e. with one active player, the teacher/trainer, lecturing numerous passive recipients, the pupils/trainees). Until recently, training courses have been the... 

Butterfield, Fox. Study Finds Unsafe Practices by People Trained in Firearms. The New York Times, January 20, 1995, p. A12. Reports that although many people on both sides of the gun debate advocate firearms safety training, a study by the Harvard School of Public Health found that people who had taken safety courses are actually more likely to keep a gun loaded and unlocked at home. 

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