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Record Nr.

UNINA9910220156103321

Autore

Yardley Roland J

Titolo

General military training : standardization and reduction options

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Place of publication not identified], : Rand, 2012

ISBN

0-8330-8321-X

Collana

Technical report  General military training

Soggetti

Military education - United States

Military readiness

Military & Naval Science

Law, Politics & Government

Military Science - General

United States Armed Forces Training of

United States Armed Forces Vocational guidance

United States Armed Forces Operational readiness

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Defining general military training and establishing general military training baseline topics -- Summary of service approaches to general military training -- Why general military training is a challenge -- What options exist to standardize requirements for general military training and reduce its burden? -- Conclusions and recommendations.

Sommario/riassunto

Every uniformed service member, whether Active Component (AC) or Reserve Component (RC), must complete ancillary or general military training (GMT) requirements prescribed by his or her service. Individual services direct some topics, and some are stipulated by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). DoD has identified a need to reduce cyclic mandatory training requirements (especially for the RCs), thus reducing the training burden on the services and making the most of available training time. The RAND National Defense Research Institute was asked to examine the services' mandatory military training requirements and examine options to standardize requirements and



reduce the training burden. This report responds to that request by providing a common definition of GMT and examining both the guidance that directs GMT completion and the services' approaches to conducting GMT. The authors identified GMT requirements directed by law and policy and interviewed service AC and RC subject-matter experts.