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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