 Hi, and welcome to SITREP, Army News that affects you. The Infantry One Station Unit Training, or OSUT, has been reinvented into a new pilot program that is kicking off this month at Fort Benning, Georgia. We are now extending the Infantry Initial Entry Training from 14 weeks to 22 weeks to better build the foundational skills, abilities, and lethality of our future warriors. This extended program has been specifically developed to optimally prepare us for the rigors, hardships, and physical tolls of modern combat. More time at Initial Entry Training means more time to give future infantrymen extensive detailed know-how on crew and shoulder-mounted weapons, combat lifesaving, battle drills, urban operations, team building, vehicle operations, and so much more. This long-awaited update is the product of years of research, case studies, and from your input from the reports of missions and activities that you conducted while deployed in combat situations. A final and complete conversion into the full 22-week training program will be implemented force-wide by October 2019. But it's the soldiers coming in now that will get the honor of taking the first spots at becoming the fighting infantry soldiers of our future army. For more information, or to read the full story, head to army.mil, and if you have questions or topic ideas for Sitrep, let us know on Facebook or Twitter. Thanks for watching, and I'll see you in the next video.