Esprit de Corps

1. Soldiering on: Efforts to build Afghan National Army have long way to go
(International Conflict/Afghanistan)

... completely inexperienced kandaks (battalions). In the past, the NATO-supervised Kabul Military Training Centre (KMTC) was pushing out complete 600-man kandaks after a 17-week training course. Any soldier ...

2. In Afghanistan, clothes and beards do maketh the man
(International Conflict/Afghanistan)

... sufficient military. To that end, they have pushed nearly 60 battalion- sized formations through the Kabul Military Training Centre ( KMTC) ? equipped as described above with a hodgepodge of donated ...

3. Kabul's Military Training Centre
(International Conflict/Afghanistan)

... Training Centre. "The school is under the direction of [Afghan army] General Wardak and is the responsibility of the Afghan Ministry of Defence." The foreign mentors attached to the KMTC come under the ...