The U.S. Army Prime Power Production Specialist Course is located at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri.
Students earn over 30 semester hours of college credit while attaining the knowledge and skills associated with installing, operating, and maintaining large medium voltage electrical power plants.
This course lasts approximately 29 weeks and provides students with the necessary knowledge and skills to install, operate, and maintain, medium voltage electrical power plants.
Both the electrical and instrumentation specialties provide in depth instruction in electronics and AC power theory.
The Mechanical Specialty Course provides direct and general support maintenance training on two- and four-stroke diesel engines to include complete rebuild practical exercises.
In academics phase, students will earn 32 college credits from Lincoln University, Jefferson City, Missouri.
The third and final phase of training is 18 weeks long and focuses on one of three specialties: electrical, instrumentation, or mechanical.
The Instrumentation Specialty course emphasizes higher-level thinking and mathematical analysis of abstract concepts involving operational theory of electronic components and systems.
The course begins with a formalization of the mathematical and basic AC and DC circuit theories and concepts that were taught in the Academics Phase.
Skills learned include the testing, calibration, troubleshooting and repair of systems and components used in the measurement, regulation, protection and control of signals, quantities and processes.
Mechanical Specialty students receive crew to depot level training on power plant maintenance.