In Search of Ground Truth for Army Space Operations Training

Abstract

It is 11 pm, Monday, Feb. 16, as a team from the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command boards a rotator flight at Baltimore/Washington International Airport bound for Kuwait City. Daryl Breitbach, and his Future Warfare Center Directorate of Combat Development Space instructor/course manager counterparts, Lenny Gehrke and Dave Berge, are beginning a 12-day odyssey which will encompass visits to Army Space professionals in Kuwait, Iraq, Bahrain, and Qatar. Their purpose is simple: to gather lessons from the field which will help improve the Space-related training conducted by U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command's Directorate of Combat Development. In today's intense operational environment the schoolhouse cannot "sit" on old curriculum and expect to be relevant. Field visits inject that critical component of ground truth to what should be taught and how we should train the way we fight.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2009
Accession Number
ADA514065

Entities

People

  • Daryl Breitbach
  • David Berge
  • Lenny Gehrke

Organizations

  • United States Army Space and Missile Defense Command

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Personnel
  • Airports
  • Army
  • Artificial Satellites
  • Combatant Commanders
  • Doctrine
  • Education
  • Ground Stations
  • Instructors
  • International Airports
  • Joint Military Activities
  • Space Force
  • Space Operations
  • Training
  • United States Central Command
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Academic Conference Management
  • Aerospace Engineering.
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.

Technology Areas

  • Space