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PRT Flashcards

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What does PRT prepare soldiers and units for?

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For the physical challenges of fulfilling the mission in the face of a wide range of threats, in a complex operational environment and with emerging technologies

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What is physical readiness?

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The ability to meet the physical demands of any combat or duty position, accomplish the mission and continue to fight and win

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Why is PRT a mandatory training program?

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It is essential to individual, unit and force readiness. And it is required by law for all individuals and units

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Where do the tasks, conditions, and standards for PRT activities derive from?

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From WTBDs, core mission essential task list, and directed mission essential task list

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What are the 7 principles of training that PRT is linked to?

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1) commanders and other leaders are responsible for training2) NCOs train individuals, crews and small teams3) train as you will fight4) train to standard5) train to sustain6) conduct multi-echelon and concurrent training7) train to develop agile leaders and organizations

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Who’s program is the PRT program?

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The commanders program.

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Who is essential to the success of PRT programs and why?

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Senior NCOs because they are often the most experienced trainers in the unit

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What are NCOs 3 responsibilities to accomplish the PRT mission?

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1) identify specific tasks that PRT enhances in support of the unit’s C-METL and D-METL for individuals crews and small teams 2) prepare, rehearse, and execute PRT3) evaluate PRT and conduct AARs to provide feedback to the commander

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Who is responsible for training junior NCOs and aid in developing junior officers, ensuring mastery of PRT drills, exercise activities, and assessments?

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Senior NCOs

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What is the principle that all army training is based on?

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Train as you will fight

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What does the toughening phase of training provide?

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Foundational fitness and fundamental motor skills, which lay the foundation for all other activities in the sustainment phase.

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How should PRT be conducted?

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Should be tough, realistic, physically challenging, yet safe in its execution.

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What is the objective of PRT being tough, realistic, physically challenging.

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To develop the soldiers physical capabilities to perform their duty assignments and combat roles.

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What are the fundamental skills that PRT activities include?

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Climbing, jumping, landing, sprinting. Because all contribute to success in the more complex skills of obstacle negotiation, combatives and military movement

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What are the PRT components that make up strength?

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Muscular strength and muscular endurance

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What are the PRT components that make up endurance?

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Anaerobic endurance and aerobic endurance

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What are the 8 components that make up mobility?

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Agility, balance, coordination, flexibility, posture, stability, speed, power

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What should be the goal of all training?

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Mastery, not just proficiency

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What are 3 tenants of standards-based training?

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1) leaders know and enforce standards 2) leaders define success in the absence of standards3) leaders train to standard, not time

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How do commanders intensify training experience?

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By varying the training conditions

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To prepare soldiers to meet the physical demands of their profession, a system of training must focus on what?

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The development of strength, endurance and mobility, plus enhance the body’s metabolic pathways

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What is the key to maintaining unit proficiency despite personnel turbulence and operational deployments?

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Sustainment training

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What is multi-echelon training?

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The simultaneous training of more than one echelon on different tasks

24
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What are three training phases of PRT?

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1) initial conditioning2) toughening3) sustaining

25
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When does concurrent training occur?

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When a leader conducts training within another type of training

26
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Who has an opportunity to lead everyday during PRT?

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NCOs

27
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Why are exercises, drills, and activities methodically sequenced?

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To adequately challenge all soldiers though progressive conditioning of the entire body while controlling injuries

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What does the initial conditioning phase do?

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Prepare future soldiers to learn and adapt to army PRT

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What does the toughening phase activities develop?

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Foundational fitness and fundamental movement skills that prepare soldiers to transition to the sustaining phase

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What does the sustaining phase activities develop?

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A higher level of physical readiness required by duty position and C- or D-METL

31
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What does reconditioning do?

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Restores soldiers physical fitness levels that enable them to re-enter the toughening or sustaining phase and progress to their previous level of fitness

32
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What are the types of PRT training?

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On-ground, off-ground and combatives

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What are 3 fundamental components within the types of training?

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Strength, endurance, mobility

34
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What principles does phase training follow?

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Precision, progression, and integration

35
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What is the purpose of the initial conditioning phase?

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To establish a safe starting point for people considering entering the army

36
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When is initial conditioning phase conducted?

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Before enlistment or pre-commissioning

37
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What is the purpose of the toughening phase?

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To develop foundational fitness and fundamental movement skills

38
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During the toughening phase what does a variety of activities with precise standards of execution ensure?

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That bones, muscles, and connective tissues gradually toughen rather than break

39
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When does the toughening phase occur?

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During IMT, BCT, OSUT, basic officer leader course A

40
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When we sustaining phase activities conducted?

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In unit PRT throughout the army

41
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When may soldiers participate in reconditioning?

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After rehabilitation and recovery from injury or illness, and then re-enter training in the toughening or sustaining phases

42
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What principles does the conduct of army PRT follow?

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The principles of precision, progression and integration

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What is precision?

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The strict adherence to optimal standards for PRT activities

44
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What is precision based on?

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The premise that the quality of the movement (form) is just as important as the weight lifted, repetitions performed, or speed of running

45
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What is progression?

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The systematic increase in the intensity, duration, volume, and difficulty of PRT activities

46
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What happens if proper progression is not followed?

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The soldier is unable to adapt to the demands of training, the soldier is unable to recover, which leads to overtraining or possible injury.

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What is integration?

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The use of multiple training activities to achieve balance and appropriate recovery between activities in the PRT program

48
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What do MMDs improve?

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Running form and movement under direct or indirect fire

49
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What do guerrilla drills develop?

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The strength and skill associated with casualty evacuation and combatives

50
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What is strength?

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The ability to overcome resistance

51
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What is endurance?

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The ability to sustain activity

52
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What is mobility?

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The functional application of strength and endurance

53
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What does FM 7-22 cover?

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The army’s Physical readiness training program

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