18th Engineer Brigade Validated for Afghanistan Deployment
Abstract
The 18th Engineer Brigade headquarters in Schwetzingen, Germany, completed its validation exercise in February 2011 for deployment to Afghanistan later in the year. The headquarters would deploy off-cycle from its subordinate units, requiring additional coordination throughout the staff to prepare and execute training for the various levels within the brigade. When the brigade arrived in theater, it would be responsible for supporting Regional Commands East, North, and Capital with engineering efforts. To become validated for deployment, the brigade developed an aim point model to lay out the exercise objectives for each crawl-walk-run-validate phase of training, with deployment as the end state. Although the initial objectives were based on the mission-essential task list, the staff learned to use the Combined Arms Training Strategy and Battle Command Knowledge System to identify tasks and subtasks for each objective. Staff sections also identified section-focused tasks based on the initial training objectives. At the after action review for training events, each subtask training level was identified as trained, needs practice, or untrained and the way ahead was noted, giving a consistent and logical approach to planning future training.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Dec 01, 2011
- Accession Number
- ADA559608
Entities
People
- Kathryn A. Werback
Organizations
- United States Army Engineer School