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Army Information Technology, part 2

I received the following in an email about some training I didn't know I signed up for:

Army Knowledge Online users can view an unofficial copy of your training record, including future reservations, by visiting the AKO Site (http://www.army.mil/):
Sign into your AKO account:
-Click on "Self Service" link
-Click on "My Education" link
-Click on "Go to ATRRS Online" link
-Click on "Individual Training Record" link (top left side, in student menu)
Note: A web version of the ATRRS "RS" (reservations) function will pop-up. If you need more information on a course you can click the course and get the report, the start and end dates, as well as the location of the school.


There are several problems here.

1. That's not the correct URL to the AKO website.
2. Isn't there an address for the actual page I'm looking for? Asking me to log into a site and then click 5 times on different links seems like a huge waste of my time when my internet is this slow, and the pages I'm navigating through are large.
3. That last link doesn't exist, and none of the other links on that page really give me any information about this mystery class I've "signed up" for.
4. The information given shows that this class started 10 days before I received this email. I mean, it's supposed to be an online course, but I can't figure anything else out about it. Or even where I'm supposed to complete it at.

I guess I'll ask my training NCO about it.