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Training events and certifications on mission essential tasks are crucial in maintaining readiness in the event a unit is called up for deployment, according to Mario Hoffman, director of U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command’s G27 Operational Environment and Opposing Forces Program and the TRADOC Project Office for OE/OPFOR.
“These actual training events serve as ideal examples of how the Army is moving to create increasingly more-realistic and challenging training conditions,” Hoffman wrote in the July-September 2015 issue of Infantry Magazine. “Within the task, condition and standard framework for training, creating appropriate (operating environment) conditions are becoming a critical criterion for training and unit readiness reporting. These OE conditions will serve as one of several criteria for achieving task proficiency ratings of ‘Trained, needs Practice or Untrained’ (T-P-U).”
According to 2nd Lt. Frederick Caleb Thompson, an executive officer with 300th MP Co., regular training pays off in readiness that enables Soldiers to be prepared to deploy at any time.
“Regular training keeps Soldiers familiar with tasks, well trained and ready to perform their METL tasks; it keeps them mentally prepared for what mission they may have to roll out for,” Thompson, a native of Bettendorf, Iowa, said. “We have to be prepared to deploy at any moment.
“Certifying the platoons is the biggest key in that readiness. If you can certify the platoons, then we can come together as a company.”
One such task is critical site security. This task requires Soldiers to approach an area, clear the area and then engage with any person on site where an incident may be taking place.
Staff Sgt. Nichols Huggins, a military policeman and a squad leader assigned to 300th MP Co., explained that the greatest improvement in Soldiers that he saw was an increase in their confidence.
“Communication is the biggest key as a squad leader; I have to be all over the place taking care of things,” said Huggins, who is originally from Lincoln, Nebraska. “So the team leaders have to constantly communicate and then communicate back to me so I can track everything and make sure it’s running as smoothly as it needs to. Soldiers definitely gained a lot more confidence in their abilities. It’s not that they didn’t know what they were doing before the training — it’s just repetition.”
For Washington, District of Columbia, native Sgt. Sorie Jawara, a military policeman assigned to 300th MP Co., one of the most beneficial aspects of his time doing this training was the opportunity to interact with Soldiers and learn their strengths and weaknesses.
“Having the chance to work with my Soldiers as they practiced maneuver techniques; being able to give them verbal feedback and reassurance by saying ‘Good job, you’ve got this,’ was beneficial in building their confidence,” Jawara said.
| Date Taken: | 03.26.2018 |
| Date Posted: | 04.11.2018 15:12 |
| Story ID: | 272675 |
| Location: | FORT RILEY, KS, US |
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