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	'''Camp Ritchie: Eight Week Class Content'''* describes the curriculum for the thirty-one basic eight-week classes at the Military Intelligence Training Center~~, as summarized on [https://www.theritchieboys.com/by-the-numbers/eight-week-class-content theritchieboys.com]~~.		'''Camp Ritchie: Eight Week Class Content'''* describes the curriculum for the thirty-one basic eight-week classes at the Military Intelligence Training Center.

	Each of the thirty-one basic Camp Ritchie classes ran over an eight-week period, with the first five weeks focused on "General Instruction" and the last three including specialized training. "General Instruction" covered the following areas:		Each of the thirty-one basic Camp Ritchie classes ran over an eight-week period, with the first five weeks focused on "General Instruction" and the last three including specialized training. "General Instruction" covered the following areas:

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	Appendix 6 shows the emphases and shifts in specialized instruction for the thirty-one classes~~. (That appendix will live on the next~~ By The Numbers ~~page,~~ Eight Week Courses by Specialties~~, when imported~~.)		Appendix 6 shows the emphases and shifts in specialized instruction for the thirty-one classes — see [[By The Numbers/Eight Week Courses by Specialties\|Eight Week Courses by Specialties]].

	Finally, the students participated in an eight-day "terrain exercise," which involved the completion of twenty intelligence-related problems. They were also sent on a forty-eight-hour patrol and on night azimuth training.		Finally, the students participated in an eight-day "terrain exercise," which involved the completion of twenty intelligence-related problems. They were also sent on a forty-eight-hour patrol and on night azimuth training.
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	Appendix 6 shows the emphases and shifts in specialized instruction for the thirty-one classes. (That appendix ~~is covered~~ on the next By The Numbers page, ~~[[By The Numbers/Eight Week Courses by Specialties\|~~Eight Week Courses by Specialties]], when imported.)		Appendix 6 shows the emphases and shifts in specialized instruction for the thirty-one classes. (That appendix will live on the next By The Numbers page, Eight Week Courses by Specialties, when imported.)

	Finally, the students participated in an eight-day "terrain exercise," which involved the completion of twenty intelligence-related problems. They were also sent on a forty-eight-hour patrol and on night azimuth training.		Finally, the students participated in an eight-day "terrain exercise," which involved the completion of twenty intelligence-related problems. They were also sent on a forty-eight-hour patrol and on night azimuth training.

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'''Camp Ritchie: Eight Week Class Content'''* describes the curriculum for the thirty-one basic eight-week classes at the Military Intelligence Training Center, as summarized on [https://www.theritchieboys.com/by-the-numbers/eight-week-class-content theritchieboys.com].

Each of the thirty-one basic Camp Ritchie classes ran over an eight-week period, with the first five weeks focused on "General Instruction" and the last three including specialized training. "General Instruction" covered the following areas:

{| class="wikitable"
! Subject !! Hours
|-
| Terrain Intelligence || 50
|-
| Signal Intelligence || 25
|-
| Staff Duties || 51
|-
| Counterintelligence in Theater of Operation || 21
|-
| Enemy Armies || 42
|-
| Aerial Photo Interpretation || 28
|-
| Military Intelligence Interpreters and Foreign Maps || 28
|-
| Combat and Operations || 27
|-
| Visual Demonstration || Included above
|-
| Order of Battle || Included above
|-
! Total hours !! 272
|}

During the final three weeks, while continuing to take "General Instruction," students were enrolled in eighty-two hours of "Specialized Instruction." All students in the [[Secret Heroes/First Class|first class]] specialized in the interrogation of German prisoners of war (IPW). Students in the later classes were enrolled in a variety of languages and areas of specialization. The number of students in these specialized fields fluctuated according to the exigencies of the war.

Instruction concentrated, as a rule, on the following areas, although counterintelligence increasingly became an important focus of the Camp Ritchie curriculum:

* Interrogation of Enemy Prisoners of War and Identification and Translation of Documents
* Aerial Photo Interpretation
* Military Intelligence Interpreters (Allied and neutral)
* Terrain Intelligence
* Signal Intelligence

Appendix 6 shows the emphases and shifts in specialized instruction for the thirty-one classes. (That appendix is covered on the next By The Numbers page, [[By The Numbers/Eight Week Courses by Specialties|Eight Week Courses by Specialties]], when imported.)

Finally, the students participated in an eight-day "terrain exercise," which involved the completion of twenty intelligence-related problems. They were also sent on a forty-eight-hour patrol and on night azimuth training.

<small>* As outlined in Charles Y. Banfill, "Brief of Pertinent Facts and Data Concerning the Military Intelligence Training Center, Camp Ritchie, Maryland," June 3, 1944, and reprinted in Center for Strategic Intelligence Research, ''Interrogation: World War II, Vietnam, and Iraq'', 39–40.</small>

== Source and copyright ==
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== See also ==
* [[By The Numbers]]
* [[By The Numbers/Eight Week Classes - Dates & Graduation Numbers|Eight Week Classes - Dates & Graduation Numbers]]
* [[By The Numbers/Student Numbers - All Classes|Student Numbers - All Classes]]
* [[Secret Heroes/First Class]]
* [[Camp Ritchie]]
* [[:Category:Classes]]
* [[Contents]]

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