The Army is planning 20 combat training center rotations in fiscal 2022, including, for the first time, a rotation focused on fighting in the Arctic and another on operating in the jungle, senior officials said.

Planning also calls for a rotation dedicated to a security force assistance brigade and at least two for Army National Guard brigade combat teams, said Maj. Gen. Sean Swindell, assistant deputy Army chief of staff for operations.

Speaking during a call with reporters to discuss the Army’s fiscal 2022 budget, Swindell said the Army is “in a good position” with its combat training center rotations.

There will be eight rotations—seven for the Regular Army and one for the Army National Guard—at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, California, and six rotations, including one for the Guard, at the Joint Readiness Training Center at Fort Polk, Louisiana. 

Two additional rotations that had been planned for JRTC will become “exportable” rotations, Swindell said. One will take place in Alaska as the Army works to bolster its Arctic capabilities, and the other will be in Hawaii so soldiers can focus on jungle-centric operations, he said. The timing of those rotations is still being finalized.

The remaining four rotations will be at the Joint Multinational Readiness Center at Hohenfels, Germany.

With these rotations, “we’re still able to maintain our heavy forces with that premier training event” while providing light forces and “all of our directed readiness requirements” the training they need, Swindell said.

The $173 billion budget requested by the Army is part of an overall $715 billion DoD budget for fiscal 2022. The proposal represents a $3.6 billion reduction for the Army that preserves military personnel funding but reduces procurement, research, development, testing and evaluation funds by $4.2 billion from current spending.