Army Foundation College
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[edit] Introduction
The Army Foundation College of the British Army has been sited in Uniacke Barracks, Penny Pot Lane, Harrogate, England, since around the late 1990s. The barracks was notably and continually used for trainee boy soldiers from 1947 until August 1996, being part of the Army Apprentices School, Harrogate which was later renamed the Army Apprentices College, Harrogate.
[edit] Objectives
The principal object of the College is to initiate youngsters (nowadays of both sexes) into the Basic Military Training standards required (the basic Phase 1 course is the Army Development Course which lasts for 20 weeks) before further Phase 2 training at the appropriate Army Training Regiment (or ATR) for the student; this to be according to the Regiment or Arm into which he or she will eventually be badged.
[edit] See also
The Association of Harrogate Apprentices which also includes general History etc. of the site.
