Doing What is Right, Not What is Required!

Abstract

Training for war (combat training) versus "other" training, has been and still is an ethical dilemma that has occupied me since I have joined the U.S. Army in 1984. With limited training resources and most important limited training time, how do we as NCOs and leaders prioritize what is more important? Is it the critical combat focused skills on the battlefield that allow our Soldiers to survive and defeat the enemy, or is it the hours of briefings and lectures consumed in a classroom listening to Equal Opportunity (EO), Prevention Of Sexual Harassment (POSH), and SAEDA, to name a few? I have had this other training pushed down my throat throughout my military career with absolutely no measurable impact on me personally or my duties as a Soldier. To sum it all up, it has and still is for me the biggest waste of precious training resources and time.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 18, 2006
Accession Number
AD1112524

Entities

People

  • Richard W. Knapp

Organizations

  • United States Army Sergeants Major Academy

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Accidents
  • Active Duty
  • Afghanistan
  • Battlefields
  • Computers
  • Coverings
  • Cybersecurity
  • Deployment
  • Directives
  • Education
  • Pleasure
  • Security
  • Sexual Harassment
  • Special Forces
  • Stability Operations
  • Task Forces
  • Training
  • United States
  • Warfare

Readers

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  • Military Training and Readiness Simulation
  • Organizational Psychology.