What advice do you have to prepare for the Civil Affairs (CA) Captains Career Course (CACCC)?

If phase 4 is the final part, then it is integrated with the Active Duty Officers and Enlisted into the most incredible field exercise you will ever experience. Prepare physically to move for days with a rucksack, basic patrolling, as well as everything you have learned from prior branch, and CA stuff. You will have 1 week to plan, get to know your team and let them help you on what you need. You have a civilian job, i guarantee you will be able to find a way to apply something from it to your CA skillset. It's a perk the reserves have that the enlisted don't. Capitalize on it. But be in top physical condition, be ready for field living.

Went through the course in Oct 2017. I've been asked for advice from other people and I always speak specifically to that person's strengths or weaknesses because the experience can be radically different for each person. Consider, for example, my phase 4 squad: a couple O-4s with decades of infantry experience, handful of O-3s in varying physical shape, and two young and sprightly (albiet less knowledgable) LTs. The field was hard on some, while others struggled with the mental game.

If you have most of your ducks in a row (physically, mentally with phase 3 material and CA concepts), then you are in a great position to focus on developing team and individual products before you hit the field. Get your lamination done early, raid the office supplies at the shoppette, order your Amazon prime tacticool shipments with enough time to spare before you leave; all these things get more difficult when a battalion's worth of soldiers is preparing to go to Pineland at the same time.

What I found most useful was my personal TACSOP & OPORD skeletons. Pocket-sized, laminated, and single-ring bound, it helped me nail 100% of my squad briefings according to standard. Y'know, the little things. There's tons of advice to be offered without violating the academic integrity policy, so if you have specific questions I'd be happy to answer them in an aside or even in this thread.

Ok feel a little old because when I completed the Qual Course in 2005, there was no Captain’s Career Course for CA. You had to have completed one prior. Part of the reasoning was CA was only taking Captains, and no rank really lower. I was an FA Officer who had completed Infantry CCC. Curious when they finally made this change?