Army Training & Leader Development

Question 1

What does Readiness indicate?

Answer 1

Our ability to fight and win our Nation’s wars. The ability of our forces to conduct the full range of military operations to defeat all enemies regardless of the threats they pose.

Question 2

What are the Unit Readiness Priorities that affects Training and Leader development?

Answer 2

1. Continue to aggressively rebuild combined arms maneuver capability and preserve wide area security competency in support of Unified Land Operations through home station training and combat training center rotations.
2. Prioritize and protect home station training environments through disciplined tasking governance, improved man-agreement of mandatory training, and reinvigorated unit training management across all echelons of command.
3. Establish a common, objective standard for assessing and reporting training readiness for decisive action or assigned missions across the total Army force.
4. Improve personnel readiness by significantly reducing medical and administrative non-available Soldiers to maximize our Army’s combat power.
5. Ensure training and leader development opportunities are sustained in order to promote the technical and functional proficiency of our Soldiers and Army Civilians.

Question 3

What will the Army do to support the training domains?

Answer 3

1. Provide Army school-trained Soldiers, Army Civilians, and leaders who possess sound fundamentals of their military or civilian specialty.
2. Publish how-to-fight doctrine that provides the basis for effective, unified action.
3. Provide training support products that enable leaders to plan, prepare, execute and assess training to standard.
4. Provide training activities through Combat Training Center (CTC) that expose units to subject matter expertise.
5. Provide resources, including synchronizing of training assets and activities, needed to execute training activities.
6. Provide a TSS and Army training management system needed by the unit to plan, execute, and evaluate training and mission rehearsals and to assess operations and capture lessons learned.
7. Leverage organizational approaches for integrating Active and Reserve components units to meet current and contingency demands.

Question 4

What is NCOPD and what does it consists of?

Answer 4

Noncommissioned Officer Professional Development Program.
It consists of training programs, formal and informal, one-on-one or groups, involving coaching as well as instruction, and will be fully integrated into the unit’s overall training program.

Question 5

What are the NCOPDP Goals and Objectives?

Answer 5

1. Increase and sustain NCO’s combat readiness.
2. Develop and strengthen the skills, knowledge, and abilities to train, deploy, and lead Soldiers in combat through decisive action training.
3. Develop NCOs who are self-aware, agile, competent, and confident.
4. Realize the full potential of the NCO support channel.
5. Foster a unit environment that enhances continued NCO leader development and encourages self-development as part of a life-long learning process.

Question 6

What is Sergeant’s Training Time?

Answer 6

1. Sergeant’s training time recognizes the NCO’s primary role in conducting individual, crew, and small team training. The sergeant’s training time develops junior leaders and builds cohesive teams.
2. Sergeant’s training time requires dedicated time on the training schedule and must be planned, resourced, rehearsed, and executed with no external distractions.
3. NCOs select battle focused individual, crew, and small team tasks that support the unit’s METL, based on their training assessment and platoon leader guidance.
4. Commanders approve the selected tasks, provide the resources, allocate time to prepare, train and certify NCOs leading training, and monitor the training.

Question 7

What is an Additional Skill Identifier?

Answer 7

Code added to a Soldier’s MOS which identifies a specialized skill that is closely related to, and an addition to, those required by a Soldier’s MOS.

Question 8

What is the Army Career Tracker?

Answer 8

ACT is a single aggregated source for assignment history, experience, skills, education, civilian acquired skills, interests and extended relationships.

Question 9

Explain each of the Training Domains?

Answer 9

1. Institutional: Training: In base centers/schools
   a. MOS training
   b. Areas of concentration
   c. Develop for more complex duties and higher positions of responsibility
2. Operational: Training: activities that unit leaders schedule, and individuals, units and organizations undertake.
   a. Sergeant Time Training
   b. NCOPD
3. Self-Development: Enables individuals to pursue personal and professional development goals outside of base schools and operational units through:
   a. Structured self-development
   b. Guided self-development.
   c. Personal self-development.