Army Training: Focus on Warfighting
Compter Based Training
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.”
Army Times
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?
Category: Big Army, Bravo Zulu
Gender training alone is 16 courses.
The only computer we had when I was in the Army were at Ft. Harrison, IN. The system worked pretty well, it was called JUMPS or Joint Uniform Military Pay System.
Still had some cash paydays, too.
SIDPERS, ARCIS, the Class IX order system used by the PLL clerk to get us the fiddly bits needed to get the tank off the deadline list.
Yeah, I remember some of those, now that you mention them. Thanks!
The Saint SIDPERS Specialist! Kid was great. Made our battalion look good with always on-time and correct SIDPERS reports to Brigade/Division.
He was also PT exempt to get the reports done each morning, and was about 50 pounds overweight. His wife wanted him O.U.T. so was feeding him like a Foie Gra goose. She would show up at S-1 with ten pounds of baked goodies for “us”. But she was up against his Sainthood, and they wouldn’t kick him out. She was -pissed-.
Someone just penciled in his PT and height/weight to be “tolerable”. I assume the records had him at 7’3″ not 5’8″.
“Mighty D” indeed.
Found this. Do they still do this, or do we mostly rely on technology now.
https://www.historynet.com/killer-instinct-how-one-man-taught-u-s-rangers-to-fight-dirty-in-wwii/
Thanks. A very worthwhile read.
I had a commander who adored computer based training. I agreed with him that the lectures on facts alone were better for the student and the instructor if done on the computer. However, I strongly disagreed with him about using them for teaching skills.
For example, we had just received a computer lesson on how to read a micrometer; all of my students took the course and could recite the “this is this and that is that” about micrometers. The stunned look on my commander’s face when I told him none of the students could actually read a micrometer after completing the computer course was predictable. What was also predictable is we still had to use the computer course. What we kept from the commander was most instructors “wasted” time after the students were finished with the computer course to teach the students how to read a micrometer.
That headset looks so gay and the guy has it on backwards.
Hell, back during my single-digit years (the 50s), I & many other young’uns were told that we would go blind from sitting that close to the television…. Been wearing glasses since 1991…
You mean we were actually training Warriors how to be Warriors via the inherwebz? And here I wuz thinking that the inherwebz was only for pr0n…and mil-blogs…and memes…
Like GTA V? Alright! /sarc
P.S. Of course, I do like the song choice and its attitude, but the rest is just GTA insanity.
P.P.S. Of course, I was always told video games would rot my brain and my eyeballs would fall out if I sat that close to the TV, too.
