"Yes, all changelings are combat trained. They start training at age of eighteen, or earlier if they should choose to do so. The training is a four year period, and then they must attend the Equestrian Collage in-order to be able to commission and be an officer. Celestia dose not yet know it, but about twenty-five percent of her collage students are changelings that are learning to be able to obtain a commission. Due to the small problem of their ROTC putting them into the EMAF they come home after four years of collage and go through a four week course of Officer Candidate School. It really is a confusing process, but all changelings have no problem of being a full military group, and some actually end up going to collage to get commissions. My idea behind that was so that they could be educated. We have elementary, junior high schools, and High schools that our younger changelings must attend if they fail to graduate, they are just retested until they do pass"