Infantry Training: Philosophies, Tips, Tricks, and Gaps

[jcustis]

Sacrifice holding on to your junior NCOs and send them to formal schools. And get your wingman to the Plt Sgt course or LAR Ldr Crse. You will have the tims now, so start using it wisely.

And get a copy of the Infantry T&R manual as soon as it is signed, and a copy of the draft LAR T&R Manual. Sit down with your Gunny, crack them open, and fill in the gaps with training that is nested in with the company's plan. Prioritize training based on resources and time available (you already know this stuff), but do it all in concert with the battalion's building block annual training plan. It will be there; you've just got to digest it and execute.

Give me a ring or drop me an email f you want to discuss further over lunch sometime in the next two weeks. I'm curious how your deploy went anyway.

ETA: Start by abolishing the phrase, "Well, the way we did it in Helmand," from use within the platoon, and revert back to your roots at Quantico. Look at what you were able to learn in just the six months of TBS alone. You can do a lot with a well-structured plan.