EXECUTION

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Chapter 4

• EXECUTION

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Enabling Learning Objectives
A. Explain the role of the commander, senior
NCOs, and small unit leaders in executing
training.  B. Identify and discuss the preferred
and least preferred methods of training and
explain when the conference method is used.
 C. Define pre-combat checks and describe their
relationship to pre-execution checks.  D.
Explain the role of the soldier and
leader/trainer in the initial, refresher, and
sustainment stages of training. E. Explain the
benefits of conducting live fire training
exercises. F. Explain the benefits of conducting
night and adverse weather training exercises. G.
Explain when, where, and why post-operations
checks are performed. H. Briefly describe the
various exercises used to conduct multi-echelon,
combined arms training.
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Roles in Executing Training

• Commanders must
• Protect training from distracters.
• Enforce 4-6 week lock-in of training.
• Ensure completion of pre-execution and pre-combat
  checks.
• Provide resources.
• Monitor use of resources.
• Participate in training.
• Ensure training is conducted to standard.
• Evaluate training using training objective based
  on T and EOs.
• Assess soldier, leader, and unit performance.

ELO A
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Roles in Executing Training

• Senior NCOs ensure
• Detailed checks and inspections are conducted at
  the start and during execution (precombat
  checks).
• Prerequisite training is completed and
  preliminary training is focused and executed to
  standard.
• NCO leaders are trained (train the trainer).
• Appropriate number of tasks are scheduled for
  training.
• Training is conducted to standard.
• Time is planned for retraining.
• Soldiers are properly motivated and well-led.
• Accountability of soldiers is maintained.

ELO A
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Roles in Executing Training

• Small unit leaders
• Account for their soldiers.
• Ensure training is conducted to standard.
• Are prepared to conduct opportunity training.
• Know units and soldiers training needs.
• Plan and request appropriate time to train to
  standard.
• Identify/conduct appropriate prerequisite
  training.

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ELO A
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Prepare to Train

• Prepare yourself.
• Prepare your resources.
• Prepare the training support personnel.
• Prepare the soldier.

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Present the Training

• Demonstration Method
• Preferred method of presentation
• Soldier sees task performed correctly.
• Stimulates soldier interest
• Leader is the primary trainer.

ELO B
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Present the Training

• Lecture Method
• Least preferred
• Little discussion
• No performance-oriented training
• Limited time
• Little soldier knowledge

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ELO B
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Present the Training

• Conference Method
• Trainer leads soldier discussion.
• Soldiers are familiar with subject.
• More than one correct answer
• Time is not critical.

ELO B
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Pre-Combat Checks

• Detailed final checks that all units conduct
  before and during combat operations
• The key to ensuring trainers and soldiers are
  adequately prepared to execute training
• Are the bridge between pre-execution checks and
  executing training

ELO C
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Perform the Training

• Identify the Army standard and demand it be
  achieved.
• Allow time to retrain
• If retraining cannot be done immediately, ensure
  soldiers understand the task was not performed to
  standard and will be retrained.
• Tailor conditions to the unit/soldier level of
  training
• As proficiency increases, make conditions
  progressively more difficult.
• Add realism and complexity as rapidly as possible.

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Stages of TrainingSoldiers

• Initial Training
• (Learning Tasks)
• Practice each task step
• Practice task steps in sequence
• Practice complete task until done correctly

• Refresher Training
• (Training to
• Standard)
• Practice to training objective standards
• Practice with more realism
• Learn transfer skills which link other tasks
• Work as crews or small units

• Sustainment Training
• (Training with Realism)
• Practice collectively to maintain peak
  proficiency
• Practice under conditions simulating actual
  combat
• Develop effective team relationships

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ELO D
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Stages of TrainingLeaders/Trainers
Coach and teach subordinate leaders
Initial Training (Learning Tasks)
Sustainment Training (Training with Realism)
Refresher Training (Training to Standard)

• Walk through task using more realism
• Increase complexity
• Demonstrate authorized field expedients
• Participate as a leader or small unit
• Observe, coach, and review

• Add realism and complexity
• Combine tasks
• Sustain optimum unit effectiveness
• Review soldier and collective performance
• Practice leader tasks
• Work with soldiers as a team

• Talk through and demonstrate each task
• Supervise step-by-step practice
• Coach frequently
• Control environment

ELO D
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Keys to Success

• Concentration on the fundamentals
• Live fire exercises
• Night and adverse weather training
• Drills
• Lane training
• Competition
• Post operations checks

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Concentration on the Fundamentals

• MOVE
• SHOOT
• COMMUNICATE
• SUSTAIN
• SECURE

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Live Fire Exercises

• Replicate battlefield conditions
• Develop confidence and esprit de corps
• Reinforce discipline and safety
• Provide combined arms synchronization
• Foster an understanding of combat

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ELO E
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Night and Adverse Weather

• Advantage in combat operations
• Proficiency with limited visibility equipment
• 24-hour operations
• Reverse cycle training

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ELO F
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Drills

• Drills pay off in combat
• Battle drill
• Collective action rapidly executed without
  applying a deliberate decision-making process
• Crew drill
• Collective action that the crew of a weapon or
  piece of equipment must perform to use the
  equipment a trained response to a particular
  situation
• Platoon and below

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Lane Training

• Company/team and lower
• Efficient use of terrain to train selected tasks
• Multiechelon
• Externally supported, resourced, and evaluated
• Narrow focus on most critical tasks
• Effective way to standardize tactics, techniques,
  and procedures

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Competition

• Achievement of the Army standard
• Increasingly difficult conditions
• Recognition of soldiers who exceed the standards
• Recognition is proportional
• Stimulation of interest and morale

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Post Operations Checks

• Accomplished at the end of training
• SOP
• Vary depending on type of training
• Examples
• Soldier/sensitive item accountability
• Closure report
• Ammunition/equipment turn-in
• Maintenance
• Training assessment
• Soldier recovery
• Chain of command inspection of soldiers and
  equipment

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Exercises
MAPEX TEWT FCX CPX LCX STX CFX FTX LFX

• Method of training executed
• Multiechelon
• Combined arms
• Realistic
• Train as you will fight

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ELO H
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Chapter 4 SummaryKeys to Success

• Prepare and publish detailed operations and
  training plans.
• Integrate concurrent and opportunity training
  into the training plans.
• Plan and conduct detailed pre-execution checks.
• Conduct thorough reconnaissance and rehearsals.
• Ensure soldiers know the training objectives and
  the tasks, conditions, and standards to be
  trained.
• Maintain unit integrity and soldier
  accountability.

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Chapter 4 SummaryKeys to Success (continued)

• Conduct detailed pre-combat checks during
  execution.
• Ensure junior leaders are qualified, coached
  through the planning and conduct of critical
  training events (weapons ranges, LFXs).
• Ensure commanders and CSM/1SG are present to
  supervise and coach junior leaders, and to
  participate in training.
• Ensure leaders lead by example and are the first
  to qualify, meet, or exceed expected standards.
• Ensure leaders always conduct AARs during and
  after training to maximize training benefit.