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The ALERT Cadet Basic Training Manual is designed to teach skills and character related to the ALERT Cadet Covenant. Projects focus on alertness, honor and respect for authority, obedience, truthfulness, orderliness, and gratefulness.

The ALERT Cadet Basic Training Manual is designed to be completed in four to six weeks. After completion of the manual, the father and his son(s) may then apply to join the ALERT Cadet program.

Each ALERT Cadet then progress through a series of seven handbooks (Novice, Pilgrim, Craftsman, Servant, Soldier, Truth Seeker, Life Giver) designed to take an ALERT Cadet from being a child to a man. Each handbook consists of six phases. Each phase booklet includes Scripture memory, Scripture meditation, character training, life skills training, adventure projects, physical training, and opportunities for service to others.

A diligent and motivated ALERT Cadet should be able to complete each phase in six to eight weeks and an entire handbook in a year. The completion of a phase booklet in six weeks, with appropriate character, will earn an ALERT Cadet the Good Conduct ribbon. Fathers have discretion on the pace at which he and his son(s) progress through the materials, perhaps pausing to focus on specific character attributes. Fathers are not required to complete the handbooks with their son(s), but are highly encouraged to do so.