They will receive an entire package on PW, or prisoner-of-war handling, because this is part of general training. It's not something that you just tack on because you're going to Afghanistan.
The training would go through all the rights that a prisoner of war has under the laws of armed conflict and the third Geneva Convention, and then how you handle them, how you actually restrain them with flexicuffs, all of that technical stuff. Detainees are introduced at every step of the training when you're doing your collective training. When you start to move from your platoon, company, battalion, brigade training, there are always prisoners--as we call them, “PWs”, or “detainees” in the Afghan context--introduced in the scenarios, in order to practise not just the point of capture stuff, but how to take that guy and move him all the way back through that long logistics train and get him to what in a general war setting is the brigade prisoner cage, but in an Afghan setting is the detainee transfer facility at Kandahar airfield.
There are a lot of parallels between our general training and what we had to do for Afghanistan, and from a soldier's perspective, they're almost identical. The wrinkle comes in what do you do with the guy after he's in that detainee transfer facility?
