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TRAINING BRAIN REPOSITORY
Home Station Training
Design
As Operation Iraqi Freedom concluded and
Operation Enduring Freedom’s demands decreased,
senior Army leadership directed a holistic review of
home-station training for the post-conflict security
environment. From this guidance, the training community conducted Army Training Summits I, II, and
III.2 During Army Training Summit II, Gen. Martin
Dempsey, then commanding general, TRADOC,
asked for a repository that would allow the force
to share and access training data regardless of unit
or data location.3 This repository was to contain
off-the-shelf scenario materials and files containing models and simulations that would provide an
“80-percent solution” [referring to a solution that is
effective but less than perfect] that unit commanders
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Another development is the
Training Brain Repository. This
web-based tool enables trainers to build
their own exercises to meet specific training objectives without a team of script writers. Interestingly,
all of these training scenarios are stored and available to
others as well. So, let’s say I need a training package focused on an Africa-based scenario. If none exists, I can
use the repository’s capabilities to quickly build the simulation scenario I need. That scenario will then be available
for any brigade in the Army to use for their own training.
—Gen. David G. Perkins
could update and tailor with their specific training
objectives.4 This guidance was the catalyst for the
initial development of the TBR and subsequent creation of the EDT.
Fulfilling the basic repository requirement
through a typical SharePoint collaboration portal
would be uncomplicated. However, after extensive
analysis and proper framing of the problem, the
TBOC identified the requirement for a more fundamental, yet complex capability: exercise design.
Thirteen years of top-down training within the
Army force generation rotational cycle, where fully
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