SUMMARY
Reserve Component units face a difficult challenge preserving individual skills and crew proficiency due to the time lapse between training periods. Monthly weekend training and the two-week Annual Training (AT) Periods currently authorized are barely enough to maintain proficiency in individual and crew skills. Attaining proficiency in company and battalion battlefield tasks requires additional training time. Other key lessons:
- Units must organize and train as they intend to fight.
- Battle staff must train as a team in developing decision support products.
- Every phase of unit training should include logisticians as well as tacticians.
- Individual, team, and combined arms skills must be emphasized and time allotted for soldiers to practice them.
- Gunnery, maneuver, and maintenance training must be balanced.
- Accuracy in personnel accounting is a crucial, ongoing command responsibility.
- Load planning is truly tested when the deployment order is actually issued.
- There are still no shortcuts to effective maintenance. Hands-on mandays are required before, during, and after a NTC rotation.
- Post exercise activities need forethought, planning, and commitment both at the NTC and home station.
- Adhering to established procedures promotes safety.
Units desiring more detailed information about the brigade's preparations for its NTC rotation should contact the unit directly:
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