A top commander in the United States Air Force has announced on Monday the plan to train of all new recruits in the basics of cyberwarfare and add more advanced schooling for others to help combat the growing threat of attacks on U.S. computer networks. He said that details on the program are still being worked out and that the basic training would be brief, perhaps an hour or two total, and would cover only the fundamentals.

A more advanced, undergraduate-level training program will begin in June to train officers and enlisted personnel for a new Air Force career field in cyber operations, said Robert Kehler head of the Air Force Space Command at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Spring . The advanced program will last six months and include skills currently taught to communications operators plus additional skills in computer networks and vulnerabilities.

Kehler also said :  “We teach them at basic training fundamentals of an M-16 (rifle), for example, and an M-9 (pistol), and so we want them to know the fundamentals of the computer network that they’re going to be operating in,”