Training
Recruits to the Grenadier Guards go through a twenty-eight week training course at the Infantry Training Centre (ITC). This is two weeks more than the training for line infantry regiments of the British Army; the extra training, carried out throughout the course, is devoted to drill and ceremonies.
Following graduation from the ITC, guardsmen are assigned to Nijmegen Company for additional training and orientation before being posted to the 1st Battalion.
Officers attend the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst for the forty-four week commissioning course, followed by the Platoon Commanders Battle Course in Brecon. Upon commission into the Grenadiers an officer becomes a platoon commander for the 1st Battalion and after two years will either be posted to Nijmegen Company for ceremonial duties or to ITC Catterick to train new guardsmen.
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