Training
LRSUs are Airborne Forces and most leadership positions are filled by Ranger qualified officers and NCOs. LRS leaders typically undergo the Reconnaissance and Surveillance Leaders Course (RSLC) at Fort Benning, where they learn long range land navigation, communications, intelligence, vehicle identification, survival, and operational techniques.
LRS troopers are often graduates of other specialized schools including:
- U.S. Army Sniper School
- US Army Special Operations Target Interdiction Course (SOITC)
- US Army Ranger School
- US Army Waterborne Infiltration Course (WIC)
- US Army Special Forces Combat Diver Qualification Course
- US Army HALO
- United States Army Reconnaissance and Surveillance Leaders Course RSLC (Formerly desiganted as the Long Range Surveillance Leaders Course (LRSLC))
- US Army Pathfinder School
- Air Assault School
- US Army Jumpmaster School
- US Army Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape (SERE)
- US Army Special Operations Medicine Course
- International Special Training Center (ISTC), which trains NATO Special Operations Forces and similar units in advanced individual patrolling, battlefield medicine, close quarter battle, sniper, survival, planning, and recognition skills. It was established in 1979, and first called the International Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol School (ILRRPS) formerly located in Weingarten, Germany and later move to Pfullendorf, Germany.
US Army LRS-Us conduct training exercises and exchange programs with various US allies. In recent years these exercises have included deployments to England, Germany, France, Hungary, and Italy. Joint training exercises have involved units from British TA SAS, France's 13e RDP, Belgium's ESR, Italy's 9th Parachute Assault Regiment and Germany's FSLK200.
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