Linking Future Training Concepts To Army Individual Training Programs

Download or read book Linking Future Training Concepts to Army Individual Training Programs written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Army will face significant challenges affecting its ability to train its soldiers in the coming years. Resources for supporting Army training are expected to decrease as the defense budget declines. Individual military education and training in U.S. Army schools will experience especially intense budget pressure. To cope with these challenges, the Army is attempting to devise new training concepts and strategies that could achieve effectiveness similar to that of current methods at reduced cost. The overall objective of this research is to assess alternative approaches for conducting individual training that may be more affordable than current methods, particularly training in residence at Army schools. This report presents the results of the first phase of this research, which seeks to link Army military occupational specialties (MOS) to potential concepts for changing individual training in the future. The report analyzes, across a range of occupations, alternative training approaches that may be more affordable and flexible than current techniques for individual skill training of enlisted personnel. The report examines training-related characteristics of Army occupations and identifies general training-related dimensions that characterize Army entry-level enlisted MOS. The results show that the training-related characteristics of entry-level enlisted MOS can be summarized by a number of general dimensions, the most important of which are ability requirements, dominant tasks, similarity to civilian occupations, and cost to train. The dimensions can be linked to new training concepts under consideration by the Army (i.e., distributed training; use of training aids, devices, simulators, and simulations; use of civilian training sources). These results may be useful in suggesting MOS in which particular training concepts and strategies may prove most feasible and cost-effective. (31 tables, 27 refs.).