During the 30-day training sessions at the NTC, the incoming units learn the following:
- How to interact with local cultures and the media
- Intelligence-driven operations
- Kinetic operations (battalion level)
- Detention operations/evidence collection and exploitation
- Non-kinetic shaping operations
- Escalation of force
- Improvised explosive device defeat training
- Counter-sniper training
- Air-ground integration and airspace command and control
- Personnel recovery

