Training The Force

Question 1

What Army Field Manual is called Training the Force

Answer 1

FM 7-0

Question 2

What is meant by performance oriented training?

Answer 2

The soldiers learn best by hands on

Question 3

What is the Army’s number one priority?

Answer 3

Training

Question 4

The Army Time Management System is composed of what three phases?

Answer 4

Green:Training focus primarily on collective tasks, with leader and indivudual tasks integrated during multi echleon training.

Amber:Small, Unit, Crew, Leader, and Individual Training emphasized.

Red:Sub Organizations take advantage of all training opprotunities to conduct indvidual, leader, and crew training

Question 5

Training is _ we do, not _ we do

Answer 5

What, something

Question 6

What is Training?

Answer 6

The instruction of personel to increase their capacity to perform specific military functions and associated individual collective tasks.

Question 7

What is the OPTEMPO of an organization?

Answer 7

The annual operating hours or miles for the major equipment system in a battalion level or equivelent organization. Commanders use OPTEMPO to forcast and allocate funds for fuel, repair parts, training, and programs.

Question 8

What are the types of evaluations and their differences?

Answer 8

Informal: When a leader conduts with his unit or when a leader visits ongoing training. This type provides real time feedback on the training environment and the profiieceny resulting from training.

formal: Are resourced with dedicated evaluators and are generally scheduled in the long range or the short range training plans. To the maximum extent headquarters and two echleons higher conduct formal external evaluations.

Internal: Are planned resourced, and conducted by the orginazation undergoing the evaluation.

External: Are planned resourced and conducted by the higher echelon in the chain of command than the organization undergoing the evaluation or headquarters outside of chain of command.

Any combination of the listed above.

Question 9

What does realistic training inspire?

Answer 9

It builds competence and confidence by developing and honing skills and inspires excellence by fostering iniative, eagerness and enthusiasm to learn.

Question 10

To accompish their training responsibility, list three of the six things commanders must do.

Answer 10

Be present at training to the maximum extent possible

Base training on mission requirements

Train to applicable army standards

Asses current levels of effiecny

Provide the required resources

Develop and execute training plans that result in proficient leaders, individuals and units.

Question 11

An AAR is not called what?

Answer 11

A critique

Question 12

What is the goal of combat level training?

Answer 12

To achieve combat level standards

Question 13

What are three types of training plans.

Answer 13

Long range
Short Range
near term

Question 14

Who is responsible for maintaining all assigned equipment in a high state of readiness in support of training or combat deployment.

Answer 14

Soldiers and Leaders

Question 15

What does evaluation of training measure?

Answer 15

It measures the demonstrated ability of commanders, soldiers, leaders, battle staff, and units against the Army Standard.

Question 16

What does multiechleon training allow?

Answer 16

It allows multiple echelons to be trained at the same time on individual and collective tasks. efficently and effectively within a limited training period.

Question 17

What is Force integration

Answer 17

The process of incorporating new doctrine, equipment, and force structure into an organization while sustaining the highest possible levels of combat readiness.

Question 18

What is battle focus and what does it do?

Answer 18

a concept used to derive peacetime training requirements and anticipated missions. Battle focus guides the planning, preperation, and execution, and assessment of each organizations training program to ensure its members train as they are going to fight.

Question 19

What does realistic training require?

Answer 19

It requires organizations to train the way they will fight or support within all dimensions of the battlefield/space

Question 20

What does AAR stand for and what does it provide?

Answer 20

After Action Review

It provides feedback to units by involving participants in the training process in order to increase and reinforce learning, it helps guide in seeking deficencies and finding solutions.

Question 21

What does the term METL stand for?

Answer 21

Mission Essential Task List

Question 22

What are the codes used to rate task proficiency?

Answer 22

T - Trained
P - Needs Practice
U - Untrained.

Question 23

What are the five primary inputs into the METL development

Answer 23

Wartime operational plans 
Enduring combat capabilities
Operational Enviornment
Directed Missions
External Guidance

Question 24

Who stated: “The best form of welfare for the troops is first class training, for this saves unnecessary casualities.”

Answer 24

Field Marshal Erwin Rommel

Question 25

What does MILES stand for?

Answer 25

Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System

Question 26

In regards to preperation training, what do pre execution checks cover?

Answer 26

They are preliminary actions commanders and trainers use to identify responsibility for selecting tasks to be trained, planning the conduct of the training, training the trainers, reconnassance of the the training site, issuing the training execution plan, and conduction rehersals among other training support tasks.

Question 27

List three of the seven things training will do if it is planned properly.

Answer 27

Maintain a consistent battle focus

Be coordinated with habitually task organized supporting organizations

Focus on the correct time horizon

Be concerned with future proficiency

Incorporate risk managment into all training plans

Establish organizational stability

make the most efficent use of the resources

Question 28

What are the four parts that an AAR consists of?

Answer 28

Review what was suppose to happen
Review what did happen
Determine what was right or wrong about what happened
Determine how the task should be done differently next time?

Question 29

What ten objectives have to be accomplished in order to help leaders ensure effective training?

Answer 29

Develop and communicate a clear vision

Train one echleon below and train two echleons below

Requires subordinates to understand and perform their roles in training

Train all elements to be proficient in the mission essential tasks

Develop Subordinates

Involve themselves in planning perparing executing and assessing training

Demand training standards are achieved

Ensure proper task and event discipline

Foster a command climate that is conduiucive to good training

Eliminate training distractions

Question 30

What does well structured training contain?

Answer 30

a mixture of initial and sustainment training

Question 31

True or false. Safe training is the predictable result of traiingto the established technical and tactical standards

Answer 31

True

Question 32

What is the key requirement in regard to divsion and brigade commanders in regards to training resources

Answer 32

Coordinate short range training plans with the various resource processes that support training.

Question 33

What is ITEP

Answer 33

Individual Training Evaluation Program

Question 34

_ Is the range of proficency in which a unit is capable of its wartime METL tasks

Answer 34

Band of Excellence

Question 35

Are senior leaders suppose to make on the spot corrections, underwrite honest mistakes, and demand aggressive action to correct training deficiencies

Answer 35

Yes

Question 36

What are the principle source documents for training and evaluation source outlines

Answer 36

MTP
Soldier Manuals
Soldier Training Publications
DA PAM 350-38 (Standards in weapons training)

Deployment or mobilization plans
Various Army MACOM and Local regulation

Question 37

List four of the many sources of feedback for training avaliable to leaders

Answer 37

Personal observations of training
Assessment and feedback from higher headquarters
Staff Visit reports
Unit status reports
Training Briefings
CTT results
APFT scores
IG General and special inspections

Question 38

Describe Operational Domain

Answer 38

It includes home station training, combat training, combat training center rotations, joint training exercises, and deployments that satisfy national objectives.

Question 39

Describe institutional domain

Answer 39

Focuses on educating and training soldiers and leaders on key knowledge, skills and attributes, required to operate in any enviroment

Question 40

Describe the self developmental domain

Answer 40

They are strucutred and informal and focus on taking those actions necessary to reduce or eliminate the gap between operational and institutional experiences.

Question 41

What is the purpose of Army Training?

Answer 41

To produce competent confident adaptive soldiers, leaders and units that are trained and ready to fight, and win our nations battles. Trainng is our number one priority

Question 42

What is the definition of METL?

Answer 42

A compliation of collective mission essential tasks an organization must complete successfully to accompish it’s wartime missions.

Question 43

Why do commanders use a mix of live viral and constructive training?

Answer 43

To achieve and sustain until unit proficiency on selected METL tasks and supporting uint and staff battle tasks within the band of excellence

Question 44

What is the foundation of the training process?

Answer 44

The time management cycle