CAC Overview with G3 focus

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FM 7-0 Training for Full Spectrum Operations
Combined Arms Center for Training BG Abe Abrams
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FM 7-0 Staffing
Jan - June
July - Dec
Jan - June
July - Dec
May - Dec
Rewrite Process Similar to FM 3-0
Blue future events
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Concept

• Development Guidance . . .
• Ensure it applies to the entire Army
• Reduce the size
• Focus on the principles
• Move Tactics, Techniques, Procedures to FM 7-1
• Make FM 7-1 web-based
• Address generating force support to operating
  force

Consolidated
TRAINING FOR FULL SPECTRUM OPERATIONS
The What of Training
60 pages
122 pages
Tactics, Techniques Procedures

• Doctrine
• Examples
• Best practices
• Easily updated
• Collaboratively
• Reviewed, as needed
• Solutions to
• training challenges

The How To of Training
243 pages
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The BIG Ideas

• Principles Train as You Will Fight
• Fight includes lethal/nonlethal
• Develop agile leaders, comfortable with
  ambiguity
• Change The Armys Training Mindset (Training is
  Different)
• Driven by FM 3-0 Operations
• No return to a strict focus on major combat
  operations offense and defense
• Train an expeditionary Army develop agile
  leaders
• Train for full spectrum operations as depicted
  by the Aim Point
• Training must focus on most important tasks
  
• Core Mission Essential Task List
• CMETL establishes training focus
  
  before a unit trains for a directed
  
  mission
• CMETL constant, but training conditions
  
  and supporting tasks to be trained based
  on
  single operational theme

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The BIG Ideas

• Directed METL
• DMETL establishes training focus for a units
  directed mission
• DMETL conditions and supporting tasks to be
  trained based on the conditions for the
  directed mission
• Core METL is a start point for developing DMETL
• Commanders Dialogue
• Between commanders before conducting the
  training briefing and finalizing the contract
• Clarify expectations and requirements
• Specific collective tasks to train
• Conditions for training tasks
• Resources required for training
• Higher assumes risk on those tasks not to
• be trained
• Flexibility for Commanders
• Commanders determine the time frequency
  of training
  management events

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Other Changes

• NEW concepts
• Training the Modular Force
• Design may require outside expertise
• Training relationships
• ARFORGEN concept
• Gaming Live-Virtual-Constructive
  Training Environment
• CTCs as a bridge between Generating Force and
  Operating Force
• Generating force support to units
• CHANGED concepts
• Principles of training added tenets
• Training management model
• More discussion of training domains,
  leader development,
  and Civilian Education System
• Battle Command training
• Crawl-walk-run

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Questions