Impact of the Army's National Training Center on Improving Individual Soldier and Unit Abilities
Abstract
This report, presenting the results of our survey of the Army's National Training Center (NTC), responds to your May 10, 1983, request and later discussions with your office. We also surveyed training at selected Army units before their NTC exercises and upon their return from the NTC. The NTC, established in 1981, gives individual soldiers and units the opportunity to train in an environment which closely parallels actual warfare. For the most part, the NTC exercises are far more realistic and demanding than home station training. Further, the NTC, through its various monitoring systems, provides evaluations which point out units' strengths and weaknesses. The training realism, intensiveness, and evaluation offered at the NTC supplement the training accomplished by units at their home installations. By the end of fiscal year 1983, 59 percent of the heavy infantry and armor battalions based in the continental United States had completed training at the NTC. This involved an estimated 45,000 soldiers. Investment costs at the NTC amounted to about $262 million through fiscal year 1983. The Army estimates total investment costs will exceed $425 million through fiscal year 1989. Operating costs in fiscal year 1983 totaled about $149 million.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 02, 1984
- Accession Number
- AD1149645
Entities
People
- Frank C. Conahan
Organizations
- United States Government Accountability Office