Original poster was in fact considered a student. The “13 month technical course” he was talking about, is called tech school. Which you go to immediately after you graduate Basic training. And this Tech school is for you to learn your job before you get to your first duty assignment. You mentioned “advanced individual training”, which is essentially the same thing, but “AIT” is army terminology…. So what it seems like is, the SmartA*s isn’t such a SmartA*s… good try though..
