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California Army Training Essay

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TRAINING IN THE CALIFORNIA ARMY NATIONAL GUARD This essay addresses operational challenges and ways for improving functional training skills for progressive changes for all Soldiers of the California Army National Guard (CAARNG). By improving the current operational practices and providing continuous training that uses standardized approaches and practices for CAARNG NCO’s will assist in the development of inexperienced NCO’s and the retention of highly experienced NCO’s. The California Army National Guard force is comprised of traditional guard Soldiers commonly referred to as Mobilization Day (M-Day) Soldiers, Active Guard and Reserve (AGR) and CAARNG dual-status federal technicians (FED TECH’s). M-Day Soldiers normally serve one weekend a month for Inactive …show more content…

During an IDT weekend the company commander provides the guidance on what training is to be conducted during the next month’s IDT. The platoon’s leadership then prepare the Deliberate Risk Assessments (DRA’s), identify any required support needed and prepare a briefing to ensure the commander approves the plan and the intent is met. If the training plan doesn’t get completed during the current IDT timeframe it is the platoon’s leadership responsibility to get it done on their own time before the next IDT. Often the unfinished product(s) are left for the full-time AGR’s to complete. If the AGR’s continuously complete the M-Day NCO’s work for them then they don’t gain the experience needed and become a proficient NCO and ultimately hinders the operations of the unit. In order to get all scheduled tasks completed by the end of IDT time management is required and is an important leadership tool to learn. NCOs are commonly training to time and not to standard therefore cutting corners which can result in poor quality training or

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