Fire for effect!
Training time is the proverbial elephant in the unit leadership meeting. Personally, I've yet to see ARFORGEN executed in anything other than a hurry-up-and-(re)deploy mode, with two big side helpings of "here's your new mission set" and "reclass a chunk of your MOS make-up." Think flash-to-bang times of less than 12 months, and outside of units' official ARFORGEN windows. You can make an arty guy into a provisional MP in that timeframe, but can you make him a good one?
Adding to the frustration, DMD/MEEL are not available from theater in a timely manner, and commanders are busy juggling the problem of how to train/test 100-percent Warrior Task and weapons qualifications prior to M-day.
So, while I like the concept of the CMETL/DMETL, in that it puts some names and documents to how we're already doing business, I'm not sure the overall concept itself does much to solve the training-time problem. Wasn't the old rule-of-thumb something like, "Use 20 percent of the available time for leaders to plan, 80 percent for troops to prepare for mission execution?"
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