Insist your NCO Corps are the lead trainers in your formations, resource them appropriately, and hold them accountable. (Graphic by Asymmetric Warfare Group) Advice for Commandersġ. Without a consistent approach, skills will atrophy before the unit makes it to the CTC rotation or deployment. Note that in the span of a year, the only command emphasis placed on individual skills comes at the beginning in the form of skill badges.
This ensures consistency across the unit and doesn't rely on badge testing dates as an end date for basic skills training.įigure 1 - Example of a battalion and brigade training progression. To combat this, units should develop a methodical and systematic approach to training individual skills consistently throughout the year, regardless of the upcoming mission. The problem is once the individual skills proficiency portion is completed, it rarely gets revisited in the training cycle, despite the fact many Soldiers rotate in and out of the unit and skills atrophy if they aren't trained consistently. The rationale is to train Soldiers on key individual tasks, and then transition to collective unit training, culminating with a Combined-Arms Live-Fire Exercise, and a home station training event.
Combat PreparationĪs brigade and battalion planners build their “road to war” for combat training center (CTC) rotations or combat deployments, a popular method is to start training for the ESB, Expert Infantry Badge (EIB), or Expert Field Medical Badge (EFMB) (see Figure 1). To best prepare for LSCO, units should utilize a sustained training program that emphasizes continual individual and collective unit training with attention from commanders and senior noncommissioned officers (NCOs). The possible downside to attaining the ESB is it may cause a hyper-focused “cramming for a test” style approach to mastering basic Soldiering skills, which are then ignored as training schedules progress. Senior Army leaders recognize the need for basic skill proficiency and released the Expert Soldier Badge (ESB) to accompany existing badges. Army's focus on large-scale combat operations (LSCO), every Soldier must be an expert at both their military occupational specialty (MOS) as well as basic Soldier tasks. “I truly believe we have to be experts as Soldiers, no matter what your MOS is.”
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