Pre-military training
Pre-military training usually refers to the training of children and young people in individual skills that are useful for later use as soldiers. Often this training is to be seen against the background of a subsequent completion of the military service .
The skills taught include, for example:
- physical exercise (sport)
- Shooting sports; Throwing sport (e.g. hand grenade throwing and targeting)
- Gun drill and drill
- Training in the field (life in the field; orientation runs; handling map and compass etc.)
- political education
- general acquisition of technical skills often used in the military; z. B. Radio training
The term u is used. a. in relation to
- Military studies in general as a school subject
- going through military training camps during the Nazi era
- the military education and military instruction in the GDR