Army Training: Focus on Warfighting

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Army slashes mandatory training requirements with regulation update

By Todd South

Shortly after taking his post as Army Chief of Staff, Gen. Randy George issued a directive to commanders — if it doesn’t add to war fighting, ditch it.

This week, changes to a cumbersome Army regulation on training have reinforced the chief’s guidance in writing. A list of 27 mandatory training items has been cut to 16 under the updated Army Regulation 350-1.

The regulation was last updated in 2017, according to the Army Publishing Directorate.

Commanders now have the discretion to shed training in various areas, such as chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear, or CBRN; combat lifesaver, safety and occupational health; law of war; code of conduct; and online training courses in survival evasion resistance and escape, or SERE, and personnel recovery.

Those training modules will remain available when needed, but commanders can choose whether to include them in unit readiness, depending on their mission set, Command Sgt. Maj. Chris Mullinax told reporters in a Tuesday phone interview.

“What our Army senior leaders are trying to do is make sure that they have as much time available so that they can focus on those things,” Mullinax said. “There’s no distractions, there’s no burdens and our war fighters are focused on war fighting and that is absolutely tough, realistic training in the field.”

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On-line SERE- HTF did THAT work? My hard-sell interrogator wasn’t pleased with my responses, seems I was “insincere” so I got dogpiled for starters. Hard to get that level of involvement from the comfort of a computer chair. This is very good news. Was there a Change of Command, or something?

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