when I went to basic they never really taught us much about cover and concealment untill you learned about fox holes and that kind of thing. they never said any thing about how to move quietly through terain or really any thing about being quiet in the woods. they had us thinking the camo bdu's we wore were all the cover weed ever need.
the shooting course would be better than nothing, that im shure of. but as fare as it makeing you a super duper accurate shooter, i dont think so. you are not expected to hit bullet hole in bullet hole at 300 yard with your m-16, they just want the target (by target i mean the humat silloets sp.) to be nocked down when you shoot. its a assault rifle they want shots to be spread out a little when you shoot so there is more damage.
most of the people they had in my basic platoon were ignorant dum***es that hailed from a big city. many came from american islands in the philipeans but not really the kind of guy that knows a gun and knows how to hunt stuff for food going to war for his country kind of thing. they want the most blank slate they can come up with so they can mold it to there needs. they also seem to like an individual who has burned all there bridges and has no where to go but the millitary. those kind seem to stick around allot longer than sgt york types. thats just my 2 cents.