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Military education and training

Military education and training is a development process which is meant to create and improve the capabilities of military personnel in their individual roles.

Military education can be either voluntary or compulsory duty. Before anyone can operate military equipment they need to take a medical and a physical exam. Only if passed, they may begin training. The primary training is recruit training. It tries to instruct the basic information and preparation in techniques indispensable to be an effective service member. For this, service members are put through physically demanding, technically and psychologically drills. The instructor has the job of making the service members in shape for military employment.

After finishing this training, many service members experience advanced instruction training more relevant to their chosen or assigned specialties. This may range from navy training to studies of explosives. In advanced training, military technology and equipment is often taught.

Many states have more than one military academy, one for each service degree, that offer college degrees in a range of subjects, comparable to other colleges. Academy graduates usually rank as officers, and as such have many options in addition to civilian work in their major subject. Higher ranking officers also have further educational opportunities.

The British Armed Forces are considered as being some of the highest trained and most tactically capable military force in the world, in spite of being smaller than the military of other states. The UK Special Forces are thought to be the elite troops of the world.

Hand-to-Hand Combat Training

The most detailed description of wrestling used in actual warfare comes from the historian Procopius, writing of the Roman (Eastern Roman, or Byzantine)-Persian war in the 6th Century A.D. The following is his remarkable account of two duels between a Roman wrestling teacher and two Persian professional soldiers.

"But one Persian, a young man, riding up very close to the Roman army, began to challenge all of them, calling for whoever wished to do battle with him. And no one of the whole army dared face the danger, except a certain Andreas, one of the personal attendants of Bouzes, not a soldier nor one who had ever practiced at all the business of war, but a trainer of youths in charge of a certain wrestling school in Byzantium. Through this it came about that he was following the army, for he cared for the person of Bouzes in the bath; his birthplace was Byzantium.

This man alone had the courage, without being ordered by Bouzes or anyone else, to go out of his own accord to meet the man in single combat. And he caught the barbarian while still considering how he should deliver his attack, and hit him with his spear on the right breast. And the Persian did not bear the blow delivered by a man of such exceptional strength, and fell from his horse to the earth. Then Andreas with a small knife slew him like a sacrificial animal as he lay on his back, and a mighty shout was raised both from the city wall and from the Roman army. But the Persians were deeply vexed at the outcome and sent forth another horseman for the same purpose, a manly fellow and well favored as to bodily size, but not a youth, for some of the hair on his head already shewed grey.

This horseman came up along the hostile army, and, brandishing vehemently the whip with which he was accustomed to strike his horse, he summoned to battle whoever among the Romans was willing. And when no one went out against him, Andreas, without attracting the notice of anyone, once more came forth, although he had been forbidden to do so by Hermogenes. So both rushed madly upon each other with their spears, and the weapons, driven against their corselets, were turned aside with mighty force, and the horses, striking together their heads, fell themselves and threw off their riders.

And both the two men, falling very close to each other, made great haste to rise to their feet, but the Persian was not able to do this easily because his size was against him, while Andreas, anticipating him (for his practice in the wrestling school gave him this advantage), smote him as he was rising on his knee, and as he fell again to the ground dispatched him. Then a roar went up from the wall and from the Roman army as great, if not greater, than before; and the Persians broke their phalanx and withdrew to Ammodios, while the Romans, raising the pæan, went inside the fortifications; for already it was growing dark. Thus both armies passed that night."

Hand-to-hand fighting in military training

The main objectives of hand-to-hand fighting in military training are:

• To develop superior balance and managing to keep balance while also trying to unbalance the opponent.
• Grip strength and manual dexterity, for the use of weapons and combat gear
• Focused and powerful pushing-power. In combat you must crush or force weapons forward at your adversary.
• The ability to get up quickly if down, is a critical survival skill on the field.
• Improved stamina, endurance and strength.
• Physical skills to control prisoners, or to carry wounded comrades.
• Cultivating aggressiveness and improved reaction time.
• Camaraderie, diversion and entertainment.

The United States Military also supports soldiers who compete both on a national and international level. The Navy, Air Force, Army, and Marines all field teams. Military personnel with various military degrees and rank have won numerous U.S. National Wrestling Championships.

Resocialization

Resocialization is a sociological conception dealing with the process of mentally and emotionally "re-training" a person so they can operate in a situation other than that which he or she is used to. Resocialization into a total institution involves a complete change of personality. Key examples include the process of resocializing new recruits into the military so that they can operate as soldiers (or, in other words, as members of a cohesive unit) and the reverse process, in which those who have become accustomed to such roles return to society after military discharge.