Instructor Training School
The Instructor Training School has been operating at one of the Ukrainian Ground Force’s Training Centers since late 2025. It trains entry-level specialists as well as those in specific fields. In particular, the school offers training courses for drill instructors, tactical medicine, and marksmanship instructors.
The Come Back Alive Foundation has already invested tens of millions of hryvnias in the project and built classrooms, living quarters, and infrastructure for comfortable living from the ground up. The Foundation will continue to improve conditions at the School and refine its processes. The main goal is to ensure that graduates bring new values and approaches to the units of the Armed Forces where they will eventually serve as instructors.
Analysts at the Come Back Alive Initiative Center have conducted a series of studies on processes within the military. All of them show that a strong army begins with high-quality training, and the foundation of its system is the instructors and leadership of training centers.
The study “From Civilian to Soldier: The Challenges of Basic Combat Training in the Armed Forces of Ukraine (as of 2024)” demonstrated that a high-quality team and staff at training centers are so important that they can offset most negative factors and barriers, including a lack of material support.
“Thanks to their expertise, healthy interaction, and sincere communication, trained and professional instructors not only effectively teach the material and implement the training program, but also care for the cadets’ well-being and explain the essence of tasks to them, even if those tasks seem meaningless at first glance,” the study states.
The establishment of a new-style Instructor Training School was one of the study’s recommendations. And this is precisely what is currently being done at the Ukrainian Ground Force’s Training Center. Here, instructors and teaching staff are carefully selected to work according to updated curricula and revised approaches to teaching and training.
The school’s graduates will form a new generation of instructors who will shape the culture of military training in Ukraine.
Below are photos from the project handover:
