These recruits received minimal training before being given a grey beret.

With translation, Iraqi recruits received the equivalent of four weeks of training.

Under the proposal pending in Congress recruits would receive the same benefits as other officers.

The recruits received their uniforms when they arrived in training camp, not later.

The United States spent $164 million building and running the training centers; recruits received two to four weeks of training.

All recruits receive instruction in physical training, weapon handling, shooting, first aid, drill and field craft.

Before they went, the recruits received training in using rifles, assault weapons and handguns.

The recruits were of a higher quality than the old army and received regular promotions.

The recruits also receive six weeks of training, mostly in safety procedures.

It is unclear how much training and support these transfers and new recruits have received for their increasingly delicate role.