Initial Requirements for Courses:

Candidates must have succesfully completed some major trainings before and gained the skills listed below;

1. Knowledge of Basic Military Rules and Techniques
2. 7200 meters run with 20 kg backpack in 52 minutes or less
3. %60 + achievement on rifle and pistol shootings

Candidates showing success during tests of above requirements are accepted into the land operations training programmes.

Training Subjects:

During the Land Operations courses, all of the drills taught to trainees are practiced in terrain by professional trainers with the special equipments supplied for every individual trainee. The main subjects taught to trainees are as below;

1. Physical Fitness and Toughness Training
2. First Aid
3. Shooting Drills
4. Marching Formations and Patrolling
5. Ambush
6. Reconnaissance and Intelligence
7. Evasion and Survival
8. Close Quarter Combats
9. Search and Rescue
10. Refugee Evacuations
11. Raid and Sabotage
12. Aircraft and Helicopter Directing 

Skills to be gained at the end of the course:

At the end of the Courses, trainees showing the qualifications of; 

1. Orientation to assignments in all units from smallest to highest in army organizations
2. Ability to apply First Aid Procedures
3. Knowledge of firearms and highest performance at using arms effectively
4. Applications of team marching formations in terrain
5. Knowledge and application of ambush types against troops, convoys and regions
6. Ability to escape alone from enemy field and survive
7. Ability to search, save and rescue from enemy or friendly areas of combat
8. Knowledge and applications of sabotage techniques
9. Ability to infiltrate into the enemy lines and direct the attack helicopters, aircrafts, bombers or other subjects of friendly forces to help assaults
10. Ability to identify communication means in combat and operate effectively
11. Ability to capture, hunt or destruct the strategic objects of enemy such as tanks, aircrafts etc 

Are awarded with “Certificate of Land Operations Expert”

Duration of Course:

Trainings including therotical trainings, practises and simulations last 16 weeks in total.