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1. REFERENCES:
A. AR 350-1 ARMY TRAINING AND LEADER DEVELOPMENT, DATED 18 DEC 09.
B. AR 600-100, ARMY LEADERSHIP, 8 MAR 07.
C. AR 600-8-19, ENLISTED PROMOTIONS AND REDUCTIONS, 30 APR 10 (RAR 001, 27 DEC 11).
2. PURPOSE: TO ELIMINATE THE ADVANCE LEADERS COURSE (ALC) COMMON CORE (ALC
CC) TRAINING PLATFORM (A 90 DAY WEB BASED, FACILITATED COURSE THAT REPLACED BASIC
NONCOMMISSIONED OFFICER COURSE COMMON CORE IN 2009, DELIVERED THROUGH THE
BLACKBOARD MANAGEMENT SYSTEM) AND REPLACE IT WITH A STRUCTURED SELF DEVELOPMENT (SSD
2) COURSE (SSD IS A SERIES OF DISTRIBUTED LEARNING COURSES WHERE SOLDIERS HAVE UPWARDS
TO TWO YEARS TO COMPLETE EACH LEVEL BEFORE ATTENDANCE TO NCOES AND IS DELIVERED
THROUGH THE ARMY LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (ALMS).
3. ALC CC AND SSD 2 WILL RUN SIMULTANEOUSLY FROM 1 JUN 14 THROUGH 30 SEP 14. SERGEANTS
(SGT) WILL ONLY RECEIVE PROMOTION POINTS FOR NCOES WHEN BOTH ALC CC OR SSD 2 AND ALC
TECHNICAL RESIDENTS PHASES ARE COMPLETED.
4. EFFECTIVE 1 OCTOBER 2014:
A. ALC CC IS NO LONGER AN ELEMENT (PHASE) OF ALC.
B. SSD 2 REPLACES ALC CC AND IS A PREREQUISITE TO ATTEND ALC. SSD IS A CENTRALLY MANAGED
SET OF SPECIFIED CONTENT THAT MUST BE COMPLETED AT SPECIFIED CAREER POINTS PRIOR TO
ATTENDING WARRIOR LEADER COURSE (WLC), ALC, SENIOR LEADERS COURSE (SLC), AND SERGEANTS
MAJOR COURSE (SMC). THE NCO TRAINING PATH (A DELIBERATE, CONTINUOUS, SEQUENTIAL AND
PROGRESSIVE PROCESS) IS:
(1) AFTER INITIAL MILITARY TRAINING (IMT), SOLDIERS ARE AUTOMATICALLY ENROLLED INTO SSD 1
WHICH IS A PREREQUISITE TO ATTEND WLC. WLC ATTENDANCE IS LIMITED TO SOLDIERS IN THE RANK
OF SPC/CPL (E4) OR HIGHER (PFC/E3 AND BELOW ARE NOT ELIGIBLE FOR ATTENDANCE TO WLC).
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