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Do you, as a Reserve or NG leader implement Warrior Task Training in your units? Do you find them important? I understand that there are financial restraints to certain tasks, such as range qual., but what about land navigation and react to fire?
Do you believe in hip-pocket training?
Are there certain skills that you feel every soldier should maintain, regardless of MOS?
In my situation, I have recently learned that none of my platoon knew what a "wedge formation" was. Neither did they know the basics of land navigation. I concede that as a support unit, some of these tasks aren't necessarily vital to a mechanized unit, but many of them are most definitely applicable.
What are your thoughts? Are we allowing a sort of complacency in training or should we focus our time on exclusive proficiency in our respective MOSs?
Do you believe in hip-pocket training?
Are there certain skills that you feel every soldier should maintain, regardless of MOS?
In my situation, I have recently learned that none of my platoon knew what a "wedge formation" was. Neither did they know the basics of land navigation. I concede that as a support unit, some of these tasks aren't necessarily vital to a mechanized unit, but many of them are most definitely applicable.
What are your thoughts? Are we allowing a sort of complacency in training or should we focus our time on exclusive proficiency in our respective MOSs?
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Edited 10 y ago
Posted 10 y ago
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This is a great topic! I am not NG or RC, but I have a couple of really good battles that are AGR's. We discuss this topic often and there are tons of problems when you are stuffing to many hours of good training into not enough weekend. Not to mention, some can't even do their MOS during the weekends. So really, all you have left is hip pocket training and basic Soldier skills.
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When you have 500hr of briefings and only 300hr of time with the soldiers there is not much room for other tasks. This is a shame these are skills we need to keep up on. As well as spending time in our mos’s. if we are to stay tacitly and technically proficient we need time to train. I know things like SHARP are important but we still need time with our soldiers to keep them ready for whatever situation comes our way. As NG we are getting put in to more and more situations where we need to be well rounded and just being an expert PowerPoint ranger will not do it. Just my thoughts.
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This is an unfortunate sign of the times. I came up in the era where even officers carried a CTT (as it was known back then) manual in their pocket for down time - and trust me there was plenty of it. Today it seems like that train of though has long ago left the station.
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