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New training manual parallels FM 3.0
04/01/2008
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| Soldiers from the 39th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, Arkansas Army National Guard, conduct urban operations at Camp Shelby, Miss. Officials said the new training manual that will be published in a few months is written for comprehension by captains, lieutenants and sergeants. |
When the Army publishes in a few months its new manual on training, it “will be evolutionary” and in “parallel with 3.0,” the recently released operations publication.
Col. (P) Robert Abrams, deputy commander for training at the Combined Arms Center at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., said, before the writing began the approach was: “Let’s not throw out the baby with the bath water.”
Another difference from past practice was: “Instead of doing [a standard] staffing of the document, we went to the field” beginning in 2006. The result “is a much better product” that “focuses on the ‘what’ of training” and “is written at the level that the captains, the lieutenants, sergeants can understand it.”
He said a follow-up manual, 7.1, will be devoted to tactics, techniques and procedures in training.
In 7.0, Abrams said there will be a distinction made between a standardized Core Mission Essential Task List established for every brigade and a Directed Mission Essential Task List when the unit receives a mission.
Full implementation of this change remains in the future “until we can get sufficient dwell time.”
“Everyone of the warfighting functions [such as stability operations, civil support and the operations process] will have their own manual”
Clinton Ancker, director of the Combined Arms Doctrine Directorate at Fort Leavenworth, Kan, said, “We need to re-look the military decision-making process and the five paragraph field order” to meet future needs.
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