After the successful completion of your interview, you are moved into a standard two week training program. This is designed to help new recruits understand our basic guiding philosophy, the structure of the ANF, basic code of conduct, and other basic information and training required to be a successful member of any organization. This period also serves as a time to weed out any additional inappropriate candidates.

After the completion of the standard training program, any specialist trainings required for your posting will be completed. These programs have no set length. Once those are completed, you are considered a full member, and will be moved into your posting to begin your work with the ANF.

The total time from beginning to end of training is expected to be, on average, 4 weeks, but can go anywhere from 3 to 5.

Standard ANF operations work on a weekly cycle, and are focused on municipal and regional detachments. A detachment is a sub-organization of the ANF whose express purpose is to be the lowest level unit capable of self-sustaining, regular, and standard, operations. A 2 hour long meeting will occur at some point during the week (date and time varies from detachment to detachment), at which point schedules for things relating to programs, new work assignments, and the like will be handed out.

On top of requiring large amounts of internally trained specialists, the ANF has a large need for leadership. Members of the ANF will have the opportunity to receive extensive in-house, paid for training, as well as management experience. More about this can be read at the membership benefits page.