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  • RECENT EVENTS
    Our new campus

    Work has begun to renovate the historic Fort Benning Station Hospital, opened in 1925, to become the permanent campus of WHINSEC. Beginning late 2012, the Institute will move in, with full operation on the site in 2014.

  • RECENT EVENTS
    Intermediate Level Education Course - Class of 2012.

    The 48 students who graduated WHINSEC's ILE Course on Wed, May 16, represented several 'firsts.' Three partner-nation and two U.S. students earned the Master of Military Art and Science degree. Unique to WHINSEC, candidates were able to complete their studies in Spanish or English. Another first-a DA civilian graduated this year; future courses will include interagency participation, starting with the U.S. Marshal's Service in July. Students from Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico, Peru, Panama, and the U.S. received diplomas.

  • RECENT EVENTS
    3rd Annual Current Operations Symposium

    Senior officers from Chile, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Mexico, along with the Vice Minister of Public Security in Costa Rica close out the 3rd Annual Current Operations Symposium with a lively panel discussion of issues relating to disaster management, illicit trafficking, and border security, Fri, Mar 29.

  • RECENT EVENTS
    Fast-Rope Rappelling from a UH-60 Blackhawk

    Fast-rope rappelling from a UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter is one of the many subjects these students in the Counterdrug Operations Course learn and practice. Each counterdrug course also goes to the Navy Small Craft Instruction and Technical Training School, Stennis Space Center, Mississippi, for a week of riverine operations with NAVSCIATTS students.

  • RECENT EVENTS
    11th Anniversary

    WHINSEC celebrated its 11th Anniversary in January, 2012, with a video review of its history. During those years, almost 14,000 students representing 34 partner nations took courses at the Institute from its diverse mix of U.S. military and civilian instructors; partner nation instructors, and visiting experts from government and non-governmental agencies.

  • RECENT EVENTS
    Thomas P. Kelly Visit

    The Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, Thomas P. Kelly, came to the Institute for an overview of its activities and to explore opportunities to expand the relationship with DoS. The two-day visit focused on the Intermediate Level Education course (formerly the Command and Staff Officer Course) and how suitable it may be for Foreign Service Officers from the State Department who have a Western Hemisphere interest. (WHINSEC has one State Department Foreign Service Officer on faculty.)

WHINSEC FAST FACTS
WHINSEC Current Facts as of September 7, 2012
Four courses in session, 146 students from 13 countries

Course highlights during the week of Sep 10-14:

Intermediate Level Education Course
(59 students) conducts training on Strategic change, the creation of organizational teams, Strategic assessment, and conducts Mentoring and feedback to students, Preparation for the Master of Military Art and Science degree.

Captains Career Course
(33 students) conducts training on Rehearsals and Fragmentary Orders, The Rapid Decision Making Process, and presents a Battalion Command Leadership Panel, Common Core Exam. Also conducts a Staff Exercise.

Engineer Operations Course
(23 students) conducts training on Humanitarian Demining, conducts a General Subject Exam/Review/AAR, End of Course Critique, Badging Ceremony, out-processes, Graduates on Sep 13 in Pratt Hall at 10 a.m.

Operational Information Analyst Course
(34 students) conducts training on Intelligence Preparation of the Battlefield, Counter-Insurgency (COIN) Theory/ Application/ Information Operations and Urban IPB.

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