title: School of Infantry
text: # School of Infantry
  
  A School of Infantry provides training in weapons and infantry tactics to infantrymen of a nation's military forces.
  
  Schools of infantry include:
  
  Australia
  
  France
  
  Indonesia
  
  * Indonesian Army - Infantry Education Center (Pusat Pendidikan Infanteri abbreviated Pusdikif), at Bandung, West Java
  * Indonesian Marine Corps - Marines Infantry Education Center (Pusat Pendidikan Infanteri Marinir abbreviated Pusdikifmar)
  
  South Africa
  
  Sri Lanka
  
  Turkey
  
  United Kingdom
  
  * British Army – Infantry Training Centre at Catterick; Infantry Battle School, at Brecon, Wales; the former School of Infantry, Warminster
  * Royal Marines – Commando Training Centre Royal Marines, Lympstone, Devon
  
  United States
  
  * United States Army – United States Army Infantry School at Fort Benning, Georgia.
  * United States Marine Corps –
     * The Basic School (TBS) at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia – (Mission: "Train and educate newly commissioned or appointed officers in the ... warfighting skills required of a rifle platoon commander" and conducts initial infantry MOS qualification training for Marine infantry officers.)
     * Infantry Officer Course (IOC) also at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia – More advanced infantry training for those newly commissioned officers who are selected to become infantry officers
     * School of Infantry (SOI) – (Conducts post-Recruit Training for enlisted Marines in basic infantry and combat skills to ensure that "Every Marine is, first and foremost, a Rifleman" and conducts initial infantry MOS qualification training for infantry Marines.)
        * SOI(East) at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.
        * SOI(West) at Camp Pendleton, California.
  