Transforming the Combat Training Centers

<p>This study examines four potential courses of action for transforming the Combat Training Centers (CTCs) to provide adequate training for the Objective Force. The Combat Training Centers examined in this study (the National Training Center at Fort Irwin California; the Joint Readiness Training Center at Fort Polk Louisiana; and the Combat Maneuver Training Center in Germany) represent the Army's premiere training facilities for live battlefield simulations at the battalion and brigade levels and may require significant changes to serve the Objective Force with the same level of training which the Legacy Force has enjoyed over the past two decades. The study evaluates each of four courses of action using three primary criteria derived from the Army Transformation Campaign Plan and associated subordinate Army documents. The courses of action examined include broadening the training centers'; mission set to incorporate stability and support operations expanding the training centers'; charter to include the execution of company and platoon lane training the incorporation of the training centers into a larger joint training facility and the more radical idea of modifying the training centers to focus on expeditionary operations. The study evaluates each of these courses of action in terms of the degree to which each trains the Objective Force in rapid deployment rapid transitions between types of operations the employment of ad hoc organizations and operations against an adaptive opponent. The evaluation resulted in five major findings presented as recommendations in the conclusion of the paper to include: 1) the CTCs should modify their training method to focus on the rapid deployment of the training unit directly to the training environment; 2) CTC rotations should take place as part of a larger joint exercise even if the rest of the exercise involves only virtual or constructive simulations; 3) units should rotate to a CTC just prior to assuming a deployab</p><p>This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore you will see the original copyright references library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world) and other notations in the work.</p><p>This work is in the public domain in the United States of America and possibly other nations. Within the United States you may freely copy and distribute this work as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.</p><p>As a reproduction of a historical artifact this work may contain missing or blurred pages poor pictures errant marks etc. Scholars believe and we concur that this work is important enough to be preserved reproduced and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.</p>