 Good morning Warriors Corner. Welcome to day two. Our first presentation operationalizing training 2030 with presenters Brigadier General Charles Lombardo, Brigadier General Thomas Felty, Brigadier General David Gardner, Brigadier General Joseph Hilbert, Brigadier General Curtis Taylor, Colonel Scott Woodward and Mr. Rich Creed. Hey good morning. Thank you very much. What a great day and what a great topic to start today. We basically, I'm Chuck Lombardo from the director training for the Army. We've got the entire training ecosystem here represented. So from the department I'll kind of lead off then hand it off to our doctrine experts Rich Creed and our three great CTC commanders. Tom Felty's in there is gonna lay out with the institutional Army and then close out with Scott Woodward at the combined arms center training. So really appreciate you being here. I'll just lead off with you know the thing that we're looking at the department how have we trained in the past where we're going now. It really starts with our re arm our model. It's a regionally armed modernization model. It's really it's centered around protecting those modernization phases and the windows and really building the Army of the future. So it's really building that future readiness. And the chief has talked and the secretary has talked. We're always gonna have to balance readiness, personnel and modernization. No different today and we've got some great you know capabilities that all enable us to do that. The second big part though it's and it'll probably come out through all these themes is it's a culture of ownership and as we've kind of returned back to to Lisco in about 2016 it's the ownership in the training management and those core competencies that our Army leaders are gonna have to do or teaching it at the institution or practicing at home station and we're validating it at the combat training centers. And then you know the third and final thing before I hand it off to our team is the you know the principles of training that Scott will talk about but one of the big themes is you know the fight to train and train at levels that you can sustain and we have to continue to do this in a multi echelon training. We know that we have the chief is kind of laid out the foundational aspects of our training strategy. The department's gonna continue to fund that T1 T2 strategy but we know you're gonna have to have multi echelon. It's gonna have to be distributed. We're gonna every round fire is gonna have to shoot train as many echelons as possible. And so without further ado I'd like to hand it off to the rest of our teammates here and they're gonna kind of explain how they're getting after that in that vein. Rich Creed over to you sir. Thank you sir. So good morning my name is Rich Creed. I run the Combined Arms Doctrine Directorate at Combined Arms Center at Fort Leavenworth and we now have a book right FM30. It caps or capstone operations doctrine that makes MDO multi-domain operations. The Army's approach to how it conducts operations across the competition continuum. Alright so when we talk about training what we're talking about is training to do what. And so you see the description there in the orange box at the top what multi-domain operations are. I call our attention to a couple things. Want to combine arms approach right. And so we communicate our culture to the next generation. It's not something that's automatically inherited so what is combined arms in the 21st century and to what degree does that mean including the understanding and those repetitions necessary to employ those joint capabilities. Right and then we do it across three contexts. And that requires a certain amount of education and training as well to understand the purpose of the operations we conduct during competition below the threshold of arm conflict during crisis like in Eastern Europe now or in during a conflict. And so you see the organization of the book on the left and then our model of the operational environment. And the thing about that operational environment is it's got three dimensions they're inter dynamic and there's something that's got to be understood that human physical and information piece. Tenants get to the qualities of the operations we want to conduct. Imperatives which is really where training needs to focus are those things that we must be able to do if we want to win acceptable costs. So with that I'll be followed by the armor commandant. Thanks Rich. And our team my name is breeder general Tom Felti I'm the 53rd chief of armor and the armor commandant at the maneuver center of excellence. So I might get a little excited about this because you know at the maneuver center of excellence a center of gravity for all things maneuver we get excited about about training our infantrymen our armor and our Caldraman. So as Rich kind of laid in and the theme of this whole session years are is is Army 2030 and Rich laid out our FM 3.0. And so of course there's going to be a cascading effects across all of the institutions as we now have to begin operationalizing you know this new this new doctrine. And so armor 2030 if you look at kind of this model that we have here you ask like so what is armor 2030. Well you look at we have new doctrine as Rich just laid out. We have an ever changing operational environment right. Everyone can see it. You're reading the news. You see things you're changing. Some of the character of war is a little different than now than it was and it's continuing to change. We have new modernization. We have new equipment that's that is getting you know flowed and flooded into our into our forces you know. And then and then lastly I think from the armor core we have a little bit of a lethality gap in the amount of time we've spent conducting a counterinsurgency operations and time off of our platform. So with those four reasons this drove our model of of a new armor 2030 and how we're going to approach how we're going to approach training. So this is really a bold step forward for our armored and Calvary forces in a lot of ways you can see on the right you can see our training and on the left you see the leader development aspects. And in the center we have this framework of standardization and that is really foundational to everything we're doing and the armor community is going to take a page out of the aviation's handbook and we're going to model what aviation does in order to build crew readiness across our fleets. And so it's going to be the same standard everywhere you go and you got to think our master gunners now are going to turn into instructor pilots and standardization officers and we're going to administer you know these precise standards across the board and I have another slide that I'll talk just a little bit about that. Another aspect of the training as we're getting ready to have new equipment as we look forward to OMFV is we have a new MOS that was just announced in April it's called the 19 Charlie and that MOS is a professionally a professional Bradley crewman you know that'll be in the in the in the turrets of all of our MECH infantry platoons you know and again it's time for a professional we're going to see an increase in our competency and you also will see a decrease in some of the tactical or some of the accidental risk that you know you might see out in your in your in your formation and a lot of this too when you when you with this model and the standardization and framework is is that we don't want to start from zero and we're going to capture everyone's training in a digital job book right that way we can transfer readiness from the institution and we can transfer readiness from the operational one operational unit to the next operational unit and that's a key a key aspect of how we're going to how we're going to do things we've also learned that our doctor and our process is good right it all works but we just need a little bit more rigor and a little bit more standardization in our approach sly place and then the last just just gives you an idea of of the RL progression model of course we don't want to follow the aviation too closely so we call it the standardized armor based of training SABO which for all you folks that aren't tankers that's the name of the the round that that that we use but you can see on the bottom we have something called a platform activity category and so this means if you are an armored crewman you have a lifelong obligation to stay proficient in your task if you're in pack one you know you you're you can see up there it's you know you have you've got to run through all of your different RL progressions pack two it's a little bit less and then you get to pack three it's it's kind of like an annual exam and those are for who is outside of the outside of the formation but the other aspect of it too is it shoot move communicate and maintain because we think you know we need to be absolute certified experts in all these categories as we as we move through the other thing that we're exploring in three cores volunteered to do a pilot of our of our training beginning in calendar year twenty three is the idea of certifying by position so certifier commanders and certifier gunners that they are interchangeable across all different crews and across our formations and so I'm going to pass it over to Kurt Taylor thank you hey good morning my name's Kurt Taylor and I have the incredible privilege of commanding the National Training Center out of Fort Irwin California so the NTC was created forty one years ago in the shadow of the Yom Kippur war for one purpose and that was to train our combat formations to win the first fight the first battle of the next war and we were coming out of a period of profound change in the character of war as the creation of anti-tank-guided missiles profoundly changed the way we fought we're moving out of active defense in the airland battle as we look at where we are in history today we see many parallels to where we were in nineteen forty one since that was the event that led to the creation the NTC we've got to think about how does the NTC change now in light of the evolving character war that we're seeing at the net are in Ukraine and in Nagorno-Korobok so the National Training Center is moving in for simultaneous line to effort to adapt the way we fight and the experience we provide to tactical units in light of the publication of multi domain operations and in light of the changing character warfare that we're seeing in theater first and most important if you saw FM30 which came out yesterday it talks about one of the imperatives is we must operate in an environment of pervasive surveillance we must operate with the understanding that all our activities will be observed at all times we are bringing that to life that transparent battlefield to life at the National Training Center so we created a cell in the up for that that is focused on the relentless pursuit of information advantage using low-earth orbit satellites and right here in the lower left you see a picture of commercial synthetic aperture radar low earth orbit satellite purchased for a few hundred dollars of a live photo taking at the National Training Center showing defensive preparations we can get that from commercial sources now with a latency of less than 18 hours we're also widely expanding the use of drones we recently had a drone attack of about 40 drones that attacked a blue four defensive position as they were conducting a defensive operation tied to the out force artillery preparation for that defense we're also using the EW spectrum to find fix and locate the blue for throughout the battle space what we have observed over the last eight or so rotations of doing this is generally by training day three this organization could come to can establish about 90 percent target custody of blue for locations so this is a real challenge that we're facing every day here at the NTC if you come to the NTC you will absolutely see that the second increasing the effects of enemy fires we're going after command posts last rotation in nine days we struck 54 command posts during that time 54 separate attacks and so we are driving units to find creative ways to make their command posts more survivable third we're bringing the division into the fight the division is a critical element of the of the tactical fight and is the is the decisive element of the of tactical maneuver so we're bringing our divisions in we just had one AD out in the box their division operated in parallel to the BCT in the box next in February we'll have third ID the division come out in advance and conduct shaping operations as it prepares its BCT to enter a rotation right behind it finally one of the tenants of multi-domain operations is endurance and we are working to bring the division in to create that endurance through a much more focus regeneration process that includes an external QAQC so we're not letting units leave thanks to general popis in the in the direction he's given from forces command we're not letting unit leave until they get to 90% operational readiness rate so we return them back to the force ready to fight so those are the four main initiatives we're working on at the National Training Center I'll pass it over to JRTC now good morning everyone I'm Dave Gardner and I'm the commanding general down at the joint readiness training center and Fort Polk so as Kurt Taylor my counterpart the National Training Center mentioned I say it a little bit differently when I was a young man I was made to study a book called America's First Battles I think the combat training centers were created to be the antidote to those America's First Battles much like 80 years ago Marshall said it we want the mistakes to be made down in Louisiana or at Hohenfels or at Fort Irwin we don't want them to be made overseas so what I'm going to share with you this morning are just a few things three of them specifically that I'm thinking about as I go to sleep at night wondering how we are going to be the instrument of change for the chief of staff and the force com commanding general the first is the division is now under large-scale combat operations the principal tactical formation so how do we do everything in that context but more importantly how do we preserve the training audiences intended by each event whether at home station or at the combat training center and essentially become experts at multi-escalon training the second thing is we enhance our learning opportunities is not just becoming experts at multi-escalon training how do we get better at multi-location training leveraging the full spectrum of live virtual and constructive operations to link together on vast distances multiple formations that replicate that core and that division fight and then the third thing is I think about multi-domain operations at the combat training centers and at joint readiness training center how do we model the capabilities that we will experience on the modern battlefield into 2030 and I think of it in two ways and I try not to be confused by that how do we first paint the environments how do we paint the environments of transparent congested degraded denied environments for our soldiers training in that fight but then secondly and more importantly how do we drive the training outcomes that we need if we put soldiers in an electromagnetic environment where they are denied they have options to drop down and perhaps do things analog perhaps go to alternate procedures but that is just experiencing the environment we have to pursue the realistic training devices that drive the training outcomes to counter that environment to fight in that environment and to succeed on the modern battlefield thank you I look forward to your questions and I'll be followed by JMRC and 7th ATC Joe Hilbert well good morning I'm Joe Hilbert I command the 7th Army Training Command and today I'm going to talk to you about what we're doing at joint at the joint multinational readiness center one of our organizations where we train large-scale combat operations in a European environment the first thing I tell you is you can see is Kurt alluded to with what's happened in Nagorno-Karabakh and in Ukraine Europe is a large-scale combat operations theater we're watching it unfold every day and here we go well there we go how do we how do we prepare for it and how do we do that in a European environment so unlike the other CTCs we are our Europe CTC we're conplan informed and we're conplan informing right so we are both looking at the con plans that we have and we are we are informed by them and then we take the lessons learned we feed them back up through US Army Europe and Africa to inform conplan repights we are Europe CTC as I mentioned and then as everybody said we know that the principal tactical formation large-scale combat operations is the division while our primary training audience remains the brigade combat team what we've done is and we've done this for a while as we'll put a division headquarters on the top of the rotation that can be a US division it can be a multinational division it can be an action as an example recently we had first armored division from Germany as the high con and they brought their division operations and intelligence section and they were the division fighting the fight we then put brigades in the constructive fight adjacent to the live brigade so in that particular rotation we had a Slovakian brigade in the north and we had a Croatian brigade in the south that division had command and control of those three brigades plus a Lithuanian brigade or I'm sorry a Latvian brigade that was the primary training audience with a US battalion inside it we provide a constructive division artillery and a constructive combat aviation brigade so that the division can fight all of those elements that they normally have it is a multinational division even if it's a US headquarters we're going to give them a NATO order and they're going to be considered multinational division homefills technically challenged there we've got the complete wrap in there but at the end of the day the main focus remains that primary training audience so the division the other brigades are all secondary training audiences and it's allowing them to get a good rep in it as Chuck mentioned we've got to make use of every training opportunity to train at different echelons concurrently and that's what we're able to do the final thing is we are not an agnostic training center so we are a European training center we train on European terrain obviously the physical terrain is the terrain of central Europe but we create a European operating environment that includes European interagency partners so every rotation will have folks we've had folks from the the technicist health fair out of the federal public of Germany a female like organization they'll bring their actual people into the rotation and function in that role in the rotation we've had Bavarian Red Cross do the same thing and then most recently we'll have consular officers from the department of state will come in and they'll run the they'll run our consulates inside the inside the training center as we do the fight so this rotation we had four consular officers running a consulate in a large-scale combat operation where where they're able to perform their function in a conflict environment and that is going to that is how we are trained in large-scale combat operations in Europe without I'll pass off to Scott Woodward from cacti good morning Colonel Scott Woodward from a combined arm center training it's a training aid training device simulator simulation in the army we touch it so we kind of run trip with a training proponent for the army some things were excited about you know 7 0 came out last summer 7 0 is going to get us back on track what we need to do is train training management so we're working with our professional military education systems company commander first sergeant courses to teach these young leaders how to plan prepare execute and assess training something we've got to wait away from in the past 15 years we're really going to focus on getting back on that our warfighter program a lot of exciting things about the warfighter program going forward where we used to do a multinational warfighters every other year we're now going to start doing them after the spring every every year so multinational more joint and we're going to make sure we touch all domains we just had a really exciting warfighter out in Indo Paycom with first core one of the new scenarios we built specifically for them so we're working on modernizing that program as well now home station training looking at upgrade and modernizing our ranges for home station training building ranges for mobile protective fire power we're getting ready to design ranges for the next generation squad weapon and then we've got some exciting things coming with our targetry we're using these deployable range packages in Europe right now to support our troops that are deployed over there and also use with our allies with trackless moving targets and we're developing for the future here a thing we call multi spectral target which has a radar signature will emit any W signature and can replicate multiple thermal signatures so that we can use the same target form to replicate different different vehicles on the same range we're working really closely with synthetic training environment cross functional team down at army futures command to develop what we're called the synthetic training environment of the state so that we can have a persistent training environment where soldiers that are training live virtual or constructive can all come together and be integrated into one exercise so really exciting there but don't forget we're talking about twenty thirty here and this this stuff won't be ready tomorrow and then lastly you know center for army lessons learned falls under us and right now they've got a huge effort going on to collect observations from the Ukraine and to send disseminate those out to the force thanks for your time and I'll be followed by a gentleman Bartle before I open up for questions just want to close out so you just heard from the masters of our combat training centers you know and in our pursuit of mastery in twenty thirty from our institutional army are doctrine you know the bottom line we do want we do we want in need and we're going to get a persistent training environment you know and that is aimed at giving time back to leaders it's turnkey and it allows training to occur at all times whether it's at the institution home station training in our rotational forces and in our combat training center program Lincoln in a distributed manner those multi echelon events will really I think enable our leaders to be at the training environment take them out of the data management business and really help us pull that line of departure back and get the most out of our training reps that four to port kind of mentality you know from the projection of our posts our garrisons are involved to the you know to the movement the RSO and I and to the execution of those those operations and those company battle task metal task that is what we're trying to do at home station and we are absolutely trying to validate that at our combat training center program and while deployed maintaining that proficiency to keep our forces ready at all times without further ado I'll take I'll take questions from the field and as we orient it to one of our experts I'll hand it off to them so any any questions at this time good morning at Todd South Army times I was wondering if you could talk a little bit about how a rotation one of the CTC's might look differently for brigade commander now that division and core and are enabled within that construct versus a past rotations which are focused almost solely on the BCT great question Kurt I'll go ahead and hand it off to you yeah absolutely so I'll give you a great example just last month first armored division was conducting a constructive exercise adjacent in parallel to 2 1 AD who's attacking into the box so we had timed it so that the division's river crossing was coincident with the seizure of the town of Rajesh so in a previous rotation brigade commander says hey I don't feel like the conditions are set for me to seize this critical urban objective I'm going to wait 6 hours 8 hours until I feel comfortable what we created in this scenario was the division commander who coincidentally was his boss was calling down to the brigade commander saying hey when are you going to seize that city because I got to set conditions to cross this river at the same time because we knew it would cause the commitment of the 803rd to protect the capital city which would enable him to get across the river so we're getting brigade commanders out of their box and thinking as that they are an integral part of the division's close fight as the primary tactical formation so that's a that's a phase shift when I was a brigade commander at the NTC they drew me a box told me get from one end to the other and gave me a bunch of resources to do that we're pulling brigade commanders out of that and they've got to understand the broader context of the division in which they're fighting yeah and I think what Kurtz also added is now that divardy commander that cab commander the DTAC can be a part of that training audience you know up until the last few years their only reps were in an MCTP warfighter which is great but getting everybody out in the box understand the science and what it takes to move those larger formations I think is also helping thanks for the question Todd any other questions Francois yeah nice to meet you French as an officer to Fort Levenworth you need a new way of managing the talents with modernizing your army oh we'll the new way of doing training help you shape fine the new talents you're needing yes sir in it we could probably Todd and a couple of us Scott can talk about this but the talent management the training management today and the where we want to go we think directly enforces the talent management of the 21st century as the chief talks about it quite a bit and I think Tom felt these up points could lay that out as we're looking at his progressions and just thanks for the question great question because because as our you know chief says people are everything for us and getting that right those right people selected early as lieutenants matter and so right now in our branches right now we have something called you know talent based branching and so as the branch chief for armor we lay out the you know the knowledge skills and behaviors of the officers we're looking for and we get to vote on every single cadet in the army and so there's a little bit of a match you have an officer that shows interest in in your branch but then there's also certain things that we're looking for in those officers that we know that it's kind of like lead indicators that they're going to be successful in our branch and so those are those are some of the ways of going very deep into the cadet pool to make sure that we're assessing the right officers now as we go towards army of 2030 and beyond in fact just a couple of weeks ago at the combined arm center led by the mission command center of excellence we were looking what what are those 2030 and 2420 40 knowledge skills and attributes and behaviors that we're going to need within our branch to make sure that we know what they are so we can assess in time for those for those officers. Thank you. Yeah. Yes sir. Joining. I was going to join in Lewiston. So as you're kind of working toward you know kind of this persistent training environment what data challenges are you saying with respect to data generation aggregation visualization and how you're doing that in tighter time cycles to give more near real time feedback to units as well as to accurately represent like units in the constructive domain. Well I know we got we got the great William Glazer here for the synthetic training environment I don't know if they're challenges it's just really the priorities of how we're tackling this. I know we're working on you know where we adjudicate you know data you know the tactical computing at the edge in the training environment but then I think as Tom has talked about and in some of our other folks the capturing of that training event is you know in the training the training rep custody along the continuum is the other piece that the training management tools will package and pick up from the state. So those training events will be captured and then passed along into the legacy systems or DTMS or eventually into ADIS to form that more of a three dimensional training record you know for the training at large. Now the local you know actions on the objective and all those trains I think we're working through that right now and you know will I don't want to put you on the spot but I think we have options that we're working through and we're in soldier touch points right now to do that. Yeah yeah thanks. I think we have time for one more question. Hey look thank you all we'll end where we began by thanking you all for coming I know this is very passionate subject for all of us it's our golf game if you will. So thanks to give a round of applause these incredible cadre of folks that have laid this out for us. Thank you very much. Have a great day.