Military Review English Edition January-February 2015 | Page 56

(Photo by Staff Sgt. Christopher Klutts , 3rd Battalion, 2nd Brigade Combat Team PAO, 7th Infantry Division) U.S Army soldiers with 201st Battlefield Surveillance Brigade and 3rd Battalion, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 7th Infantry Division, participate in a Gryphon Tomahawk mission readiness exercise at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., 21 February 2014. discussion of each will help with deconstructing training as a lost art and determining how to foster training management as the wave of the future. Regionally aligned training. As chief of staff of the Army, Gen. Raymond Odierno has committed the Army to being globally responsive yet regionally engaged. Regional alignment enables the Army to “rapidly deploy, fight, and win whenever and wherever” America’s interests are threatened.9 This concept provides for an array of forces, usually at less than even company or platoon strength, affording commanders tailorable and scalable options. Such forces are supposed to be comparatively more culturally attuned, based on focused training. Conseq