And if they are not, how are they to properly learn and conduct other operations not taught during their basic courses?
I'm not saying practice doesnt make perfect, quite to the contrary. Repetition is necessary, and thats why we train at our units. Thats where, IMO, the repetition should be. As I've heard, the courses are meant to introduce the new troops to such operations, and the training they do at the unit is to perfect their performance in these operations. Would it not be of more value to teach the theory behind a platoon attack once, and then teach the theory behind a C&S so that back at the unit they can take it to the next step and actually practice it to make the troops better at performing them instead of spending time each year teaching the fresh troops the theory of C&S, from scratch, while the troops who've done it the previous year would benifit more from actually conducting one?