Table of organization and equipment for an ADC company

The Auto Defense de Choc (Self-Defense village militia) company basic training program was a short intensive course in military tactics; it was developed at the start of the Laotian Civil War to begin a guerrilla movement in Laos.

The ADC program consisted of prepacked military equipment suitable for training 100 recruits at a time.

As the French lost the First Indochina War, the United States edged its way into taking over support of the Kingdom of Laos.

This was a three-day course in basic military training, using small arms and equipment parachuted in to the Hmong recruits and their Thai trainers.

Other graduates progressed to becoming members of Special Guerrilla Units tasked with offensive military operations.