Captains’ Course has already trained 800 officers

3 December, 2024 Students of the Captains' Course, April 2024. Photo credits: Come Back Alive Foundation. The Captains' Course training program has already trained more than 800 officers from various branches of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the National Guard.

Yuriy Podlesnyi, Head of Military Education and Training at the Come Back Alive Foundation, reported this on Toronto TV. According to Podlesnyi, training one set of cadets today costs the Foundation UAH 6-7 million. This includes theoretical training, practical training activities, and related expenses.

The training course currently lasts three months and is aimed at teaching future company commanders the most essential knowledge they will need here and now on the battlefield. Anton Muraveinyk, Head of the analytical department at Come Back Alive, shared that the course includes the necessary skills of one-man planning, leadership, decision-making knowledge, and field planning practices.

Ukrainian commanders at the Captains' Course. Ukraine, 2024.

Photo credits: "Captains' Course" Facebook page

This year, the Captains' School became a professional military education course, L-1C Tactical Command Course, and became part of the structure of the Military Institute of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.