Military Review English Edition January-February 2015 | Page 69

TRAINING BRAIN REPOSITORY choices and multiple overlays, allowing multiple efficient, and effective. The importance of role users to develop graphics in multiple layers (mission players has gained increased emphasis to better command, movement and maneuver, intelligence, expose U.S. military, interagency, intergovernmental, fires, sustainment, protection, units, and user-cusand multinational participants to the diverse set of tomized) at the same time. Users can toggle the operational environments, cultures, foreign languagoverlays on and off to display various layers, depend- es, and organizations.12 The TBR-EDT includes the ing on mission requirements. Users can also create capability to develop and reuse role-player actors additional custom layers and their associated of graphics to depict instructions as part of the Tokhi, Nazo phased operations, operational environment. intelligence preparaSpecific role attributes Nazo tion of the battlefield, include name, gender, Middle courses of action, or any marital status, occupaother desired graphic tion, date of birth, and Last Name Tokhi requirements. If a user nationality. Overall, there Alias Naz changes the training are a total of 36 attributes Gender Male location, the graphics available for assignment Marital Married automatically move to to a specific role player. the new map location The role attributes act Occupation Farmer where they can be easily as feeder data to other Date of Birth 1985-03-02 repositioned, resized, or reports that may be used Place of Birth reoriented to fit the new within the exercise. Figure Nationality Atropian terrain and operational 3 provides an example requirements. of system-generated Ethnicity Storyline synchrorole-player attributes. Religion Shia nization tool. Gone Higher headquarters’ Languages Spanish are the days of tedious operation order. One of Education storyline and event the major exercise design Family synchronization using components, and often the Father: Jafar Tokhi (56) Excel, sticky notes, or most time consuming to Military Service manually created events create, is the higher headdesigned to cause difquarters’ operation order Figure 3. TBR-EDT Role ferent outcomes. TBR-EDT’s that drives the unit’s military Player Attributes storyline synchronization tool decisionmaking process. The reduces or eliminates this action. With this tool, usTBR-EDT provides the capability to build any numers and planners can deconflict storylines and events ber of doctrinally compliant higher headquarters’ to ensure they take place at the correct time during operation orders, including up to 150 corresponding the exercise