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What ADP/ADRP covers The Army?
Definition
ADP/ADRP 1
Term
In which domains do U.S. forces operate?
Definition
Air, land, maritime, space, and cyberspace domains.
Term
As a unique military profession, the Army is built upon an ethos of trust. What are four other essential characteristics of our profession?
Definition
Military expertise, honorable service, esprit de corps, and stewardship.
Term
What are the 11 Primary Missions of the U.S. Armed Forces?
Definition
• Counter terrorism and irregular warfare.
• Deter and defeat aggression.
• Project power despite anti-access/area denial challenges.
• Counter weapons of mass destruction.
• Operate effectively in cyberspace.
• Operate effectively in space.
• Maintain a safe, secure, and effective nuclear deterrent.
• Defend the homeland and provide support to civil authorities.
• Provide a stabilizing presence.
• Conduct stability and counterinsurgency operations.
• Conduct humanitarian, disaster relief, and other operations.
Term
What is the most important determinant of combat power?
Definition
Leadership.
Term
What is the US Army’s greatest strategic asset; providing depth, versatility, and unmatched experience to the joint force?
Definition
The all-volunteer force.
Term
Title 10, USC, establishes the basic structure of the Army. What Forces make up the Army?
Definition
One Regular Army and two Reserve Components: the Regular Army, the Army Reserve, and the
Army National Guard of the United States. Army Civilians support all three components.
Term
What is the function of the Operating Force?
Definition
Operating forces consist of units organized, trained, and equipped to deploy and fight.
Term
What is the function of the Generating Force?
Definition
The generating force mans, trains, equips, deploys, and ensures the readiness of all Army forces.
Term
What five sets of characteristics will enhance the Army's operational adaptability?
Definition
• Depth and Versatility.
• Adaptive and Innovative.
• Flexibility and Agility.
• Integrated and Synchronized.
• Lethal and Discriminate.
Term
What ADP/ADRP covers Operational Terms and Military Symbols?
Definition
ADP/ADRP 1-02.
Term
Who is the principal audience for ADP 1-02, Operational Terms and Military Symbols?
Definition
All members of the profession of arms.
Term
What is the purpose of a common set of doctrinal terms and military symbols?
Definition
Terms and symbols can communicate a great deal of information with a simple word, phrase, or image and eliminate the need for a lengthy explanation of a complex idea.
Term
What are the three areas of focus of the professional language of land warfare?
Definition
• Principle of Simplicity.
• Importance of clear communication.
• Importance of teaching the language.
Term
Military symbols fall into two categories: framed and unframed. What is the difference?
Definition
Framed military symbols include unit, equipment, installation, and activity symbols.
Unframed military symbols include control measure and tactical task mission symbols.
Term
Who establishes Army policy for developing doctrinal terms?
Definition
United States Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC)
Term
That common operational picture is displayed on a map or another geographical form representing the area of operations and which has been overlaid with military symbols. What does it include?
Definition
• Friendly and enemy units or ships.
• Boundaries.
• Control measures.
• Other elements that the commander deems necessary.
Term
How are acronyms usually formed?
Definition
Acronyms are usually formed from the initial letters of a name or parts of a series of words.
Term
What is a single display of relevant information within a commander’s area of interest tailored to the user’s requirements and based on common data and information shared by more than one command?
Definition
A common operational picture.
Term
What is communication in reference to Operational Terms and Military Symbols?
Definition
Communication is an exchange of meaning that is only complete when the intended meaning is understood precisely by the intended audience.
Term
Who can propose the creation, modification, or elimination of any doctrinal term?
Definition
Any Soldier may contact a proponent for a given subject area. The proponent will consider the Soldier’s proposal.
Term
What is the purpose of acronyms and abbreviations is the profession of arms?
Definition
To allow the use of shorter versions of doctrinal and military terms for ease of discussion in speaking and writing.
Term
What ADP/ADRP covers Intelligence?
Definition
ADP/ADRP 2-0.
Term
Why does the Army synchronizes its intelligence efforts with unified action partners?
Definition
To achieve unity of effort and to meet the commander’s intent.
Term
How do multinational and interagency partners reinforce and complement Army intelligence capabilities?
Definition
By providing cultural awareness, as well as unique perspectives and capabilities.
Term
What is ISR?
Definition
Intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance.
Term
What is the purpose of ISR?
Definition
To synchronize and integrate the planning and operation of sensors, assets, and processing, exploitation, and dissemination systems in direct support of current and future operations.
Term
What is the intelligence warfighting function?
Definition
The intelligence warfighting function is the related tasks and systems that facilitate understanding the enemy, terrain, and civil considerations.
Term
What are the information collection tasks?
Definition
• Plan requirements and assess collection.
• Task and direct collection.
• Execute collection.
Term
What is the intelligence enterprise?
Definition
The intelligence enterprise is the sum total of the intelligence efforts of the entire U.S. intelligence community.
Term
What are the intelligence core competencies?
Definition
The core competencies are intelligence synchronization, intelligence operations, and intelligence analysis.
Term
What is Intelligence synchronization?
Definition
Intelligence synchronization is the “art” of integrating information collection and intelligence analysis with operations to effectively and efficiently support decision-making.
Term
What are the 4 primary means for information collection?
Definition
• Intelligence operations.
• Reconnaissance.
• Surveillance.
• Security operations.
Term
What is the purpose of intelligence analysis?
Definition
To describe the current—and attempt to proactively assess—threats, terrain and weather, and civil considerations.
Term
What ADP/ADRP covers Unified Land Operations?
Definition
ADP/ADRP 3-0.
Term
What is the description of Unified land operations?
Definition
Unified land operations describes how the Army seizes, retains, and exploits the initiative to gain and maintain a position of relative advantage in sustained land operations through simultaneous offensive, defensive, and stability operations in order to prevent or deter conflict, prevail in war, and create the conditions for favorable conflict resolution.
Term
What are the operational variables?
Definition
The operational variables consist of political, military, economic, social, information, infrastructure, physical environment, time (known as PMESII-PT).
Term
What are the mission variables?
Definition
The mission variables consist of mission, enemy, terrain and weather, troops and support available, time available, civil considerations (known as METT-TC).
Term
What is the is the Army’s warfighting doctrine?
Definition
Unified land operations .
Term
What is a series of related major operations aimed at achieving strategic and operational objectives within a given time and space?
Definition
A campaign.
Term
What is a military action, consisting of two of more related tactical actions, designed to achieve a strategic objective, in whole or in part?
Definition
An operation.
Term
What is a battle or engagement, employing lethal or nonlethal actions, designed for a specific purpose relative to the enemy, the terrain, friendly forces, or other entity?
Definition
A tactical action.
Term
How are Army operations characterized?
Definition
Army operations are characterized by flexibility, integration, lethality, adaptability, depth, and synchronization.
Term
What is Operational Art?
Definition
Operational art is the pursuit of strategic objectives, in whole or in part, through the arrangement of tactical actions in time, space, and purpose.
Term
What is MDMP?
Definition
The military decision-making process.
Term
What is the purpose of MDMP?
Definition
It integrates the activities of the commander, staff, subordinate headquarters, and other partners to understand the situation and mission; develop, analyze, and compare courses of action; decide on a course of action that best accomplishes the mission; and produce an operation order or order for execution.
Term
What ADP/ADRP covers Special Operations?
Definition
ADP/ADRP 3-05.
Term
What factors determine the employment of special operations forces?
Definition
• National policy
• Geographic combatant commander requirements
• Joint force commander requirements
• Ambassador requirements
• The character of the operational environment
• The nature of the threat
Term
What are the Special Operations core principles?
Definition
• Discreet
• Precise
• Scalable operations
Term
What are the 12 Special Operations Force imperatives?
Definition
• Understand the operational environment
• Recognize political implications
• Facilitate military and interagency activities
• Engage the threat discriminately
• Anticipate long-term effects
• Ensure legitimacy and credibility
• Anticipate and control psychological effects
• Operate with and through others
• Develop multiple options
• Support long-term engagement
• Provide sufficient intelligence
• Balance security and synchronization
Term
What will increase the effectiveness of shaping activities and improve execution of counterterrorism and irregular warfare?
Definition
Interdependence between special operations forces and conventional forces.
Term
What critical capabilities represent the core of America’s unique Army special operations capabilities?
Definition
• Special warfare
• Surgical strike
Term
What ADP/ADRP covers Stability?
Definition
ADP/ADRP 3-07.
Term
What is Stabilization?
Definition
Stabilization is a process in which personnel identify and mitigate underlying sources of instability to establish the conditions for long-term stability.
Term
What is the focus of stability tasks?
Definition
• Identifying and targeting the root causes of instability.
• Building the capacity of local institutions.
Term
What are sources of instability?
Definition
• Decreased support for the government based on what locals actually expect of their government.
• Increased support for anti-government elements.
• The undermining of the normal functioning of society where the emphasis must be on a return to the established norms.
Term
What are Stability tasks?
Definition
Stability tasks are tasks conducted as part of operations outside the US in coordination with other instruments of national power to maintain or reestablish a safe and secure environment and provide essential governmental services, emergency infrastructure reconstruction, and humanitarian relief.
Term
What are the principles that lay the foundation for long-term stability?
Definition
• Conflict transformation.
• Unity of effort.
• Legitimacy and host-nation ownership.
• Building partner capacity.
Term
What is a line of effort?
Definition
A line of effort is a line that links multiple tasks using the logic of purpose rather than geographical reference to focus efforts toward establishing operational and strategic conditions.
Term
What is a decisive point?
Definition
A decisive point is a geographic place, specific key event, critical factor, or function that, when acted upon, allows commanders to gain a marked advantage over an adversary or contribute materially to achieving success.
Term
What is a stability mechanism?
Definition
A stability mechanism is the primary method through which friendly forces affect civilians in order to attain conditions that support establishing a lasting, stable peace.
Term
What is a defeat mechanism?
Definition
A defeat mechanism is the method through which friendly forces accomplish their mission against enemy opposition.
Term
What ADP/ADRP covers Fires?
Definition
ADP/ADRP 3-09.
Term
What are the core competencies of Fires?
Definition
• Air Defense Artillery.
• Field Artillery.
Term
What are the critical capabilities of Fires?
Definition
• Target Acquisition.
• Target Discrimination.
• Target Engagement.
Term
What are the principles of Fires?
Definition
• Precision.
• Scalable.
• Synchronized.
• Responsive.
• Networked.
Term
What are the characteristics of Fires?
Definition
• All Weather.
• Precision/Near Precision Fires.
• Mass Area Fires.
• Air and Space Integration.
• Inherently Joint.
Term
What are the defensive measures designed to destroy attacking enemy aircraft or missiles in the atmosphere, or to nullify or reduce effectiveness of such attack either through surveillance actions or active engagements of aerial threat?
Definition
Air defense artillery
Term
What is Fire support?
Definition
Fire support is fires that directly support land, maritime, amphibious, and special operations forces to engage enemy forces, combat formations, and facilities in pursuit of tactical and operational objectives.
Term
What is the objective of fires planning?
Definition
To optimize combat power.
Term
How is fire support planning accomplished?
Definition
Fire support planning is accomplished using targeting and the running estimate.
Term
What is a Target?
Definition
A Target is an entity or object considered for possible engagement or other action.
Term
What does targeting provide?
Definition
Targeting provides an effective method for matching the friendly force capabilities against enemy targets.
Term
What ADP/ADRP covers Defense Support of Civil Authorities?
Definition
ADP/ADRP 3-28.
Term
What are the primary documents containing national preparedness doctrine?
Definition
• The National Preparedness Goal.
• The National Incident Management System (known as the NIMS).
• The National Response Framework (formerly known as the National Response Plan).
Term
What are the 15 emergency support functions (ESF)?
Definition
ESF #1: Transportation
ESF #2: Communications
ESF #3: Public Works and Engineering
ESF #4: Firefighting
ESF #5: Emergency Management
ESF #6: Mass Care, Emergency Assistance, Housing, and Human Services
ESF #7: Logistics Management and Resource Support
ESF #8: Public Health and Medical Services
ESF #9: Search and Rescue
ESF #10: Oil and Hazardous Materials Response
ESF #11: Agriculture and Natural Resources
ESF #12: Energy
ESF #13: Public Safety and Security
ESF #14: Long-Term Community Recovery
ESF #15: External Affairs
Term
Which warfighting function will the majority of DSCA missions stress?
Definition
The sustainment warfighting function.
Term
While there are many potential missions for Soldiers as part of DSCA, what are the overarching purposes of all DSCA missions?
Definition
• Save lives.
• Alleviate suffering.
• Protect property.
Term
How many state and territorial National Guard elements are there?
Definition
54. All fifty states, the District of Columbia, territories of Guam and the Virgin Islands, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico have National Guard forces making 54 state and territorial NG elements.
Term
What is the Army National Guard’s dual role?
Definition
The Army National Guard’s dual role is as a state military force under the governor and as a reserve component of the Army that the President may mobilize for federal service.
Term
In DSCA, military forces support a primary (or lead) civilian agency. What do commanders need to realize achieving the military end state means?
Definition
That state, territorial, local, and tribal authorities become able to provide effective support to their citizens without the further assistance from military forces.
Term
What is one of the biggest mistakes that tactical commanders can make in DSCA?
Definition
Military forces operating freely within civilian jurisdictions risk upsetting the constitutional balance between civil authority, the military, and the private sector.
Term
What ADP/ADRP covers Protection?
Definition
ADP/ADRP 3-37.
Term
What is Protection?
Definition
Protection is the preservation of the effectiveness and survivability of mission-related military and nonmilitary personnel, equipment, facilities, information, and infrastructure deployed or located within or outside the boundaries of a given operational area.
Term
What are the Protection principles?
Definition
1. Comprehensive. Protection is an all-inclusive utilization of complementary and reinforcing protection tasks and systems available to commanders, incorporated into the plan, to preserve the force.
2. Integrated. Protection is integrated with other activities, systems, efforts, and capabilities associated with unified land operations to provide strength and structure to the overall effort. Integration must occur vertically and horizontally with unified action partners throughout the operations process.
3. Layered. Protection capabilities are arranged using a layered approach to provide strength and depth. Layering reduces the destructive effect of a threat or hazard through the dispersion of energy or the culmination of the force.
4. Redundant. Protection efforts are often redundant anywhere that a vulnerability or a critical point of failure is identified. Redundancy ensures that specific activities, systems, efforts, and capabilities that are critical for the success of the overall protection effort have a secondary or auxiliary effort of equal or greater capability.
5. Enduring. Protection capabilities are ongoing activities for maintaining the objectives of preserving combat power, populations, partners, essential equipment, resources, and critical infrastructure in every phase of an operation.
Term
What is the protection warfighting function?
Definition
The protection warfighting function is the related tasks and systems that preserve the force so that commanders can apply maximum combat power to accomplish the mission
Term
What is the first step toward effective protection?
Definition
Planning.
Term
During the preparation phase, what is the focus of protection?
Definition
Deterring and preventing the enemy or adversary from actions that would affect combat power and the freedom of action.
Term
What is the staff looking for as they monitor the conduct of operations during execution?
Definition
Variances from the scheme of maneuver and protection.
Term
Assessing protection is an essential, continuous activity that occurs throughout the operations process. What is Assessment?
Definition
Assessment is the determination of the progress toward accomplishing a task, creating a condition, or achieving an objective.
Term
What ADP/ADRP covers Offense and Defense?
Definition
ADP/ADRP 3-90.
Term
What is tactics?
Definition
Tactics is the employment and ordered arrangement of forces in relation to each other.
Term
What is the tactical level of war?
Definition
The tactical level of war is the level of war at which battles and engagements are planned and executed to achieve military objectives assigned to tactical units or task forces.
Term
What is an engagement?
Definition
An engagement is a tactical conflict, usually between opposing, lower echelon maneuver forces.
Term
What echelons typically conduct engagements?
Definition
Brigades and smaller echelons typically conduct engagements.
Term
Brigades and smaller echelons typically conduct engagements.
Definition
They are usually short, executed in terms of minutes, hours, or days.
Term
What is a battle?
Definition
A battle consists of a set of related engagements that lasts longer and involves larger forces than an engagement.
Term
What do battles affect?
Definition
Battles can affect the course of a campaign or major operation.
Term
When does a battle occur?
Definition
A battle occurs when a division, corps, or army commander fights for one or more significant objectives. Battles are usually operationally significant, if not operationally decisive.
Term
The art of tactics consists of three interrelated aspects. What are they?
Definition
• The creative and flexible array of means to accomplish assigned missions.
• Decision making under conditions of uncertainty when faced with a thinking and adaptive enemy.
• Understanding the effects of combat on Soldiers.
Term
What is the science of tactic?
Definition
The science of tactics encompasses the understanding of those military aspects of tactics—capabilities, techniques, and procedures—that can be measured and codified.
Term
What is a hasty operation?
Definition
A hasty operation is an operation in which a commander directs immediately available forces, using fragmentary orders, to perform activities with minimal preparation, trading planning and preparation time for speed of execution.
Term
What is a deliberate operation?
Definition
A deliberate operation is an operation in which the tactical situation allows the development and coordination of detailed plans, including multiple branches and sequels
Term
What ADP/ADRP covers Sustainment?
Definition
ADP/ADRP 4-0.
Term
What is the sustainment warfighting function?
Definition
The sustainment warfighting function is related tasks and systems that provide support and services to ensure freedom of action, extend operational reach, and prolong endurance.
Term
What is logistics?
Definition
Logistics is planning and executing of the movement and support of forces.
Term
What are personnel services?
Definition
Personnel services are sustainment functions that man and fund the force, maintain Soldier and Family readiness, promote the moral and ethical values of the nation, and enable the fighting qualities of the Army.
Term
What are the sustainment principles?
Definition
• Integration.
• Anticipation.
• Responsiveness.
• Simplicity.
• Economy.
• Survivability.
• Continuity.
• Improvisation.
Term
What are the principles of personnel services?
Definition
• Synchronization.
• Timeliness.
• Stewardship.
• Accuracy.
• Consistency.
Term
What is the synchronization, coordination, and/or integration of the activities of governmental and nongovernmental entities with military operations to achieve a unity of effort?
Definition
Unified action.
Term
What is the purposeful reliance by one Service’s forces on another Service’s capabilities to maximize the complementary and reinforcing effects of both?
Definition
Joint interdependence.
Term
Joint interdependence.
Definition
Generating forces consist of those Army organizations whose primary mission is to generate and sustain the operational Army’s capabilities for employment.
Term
What are operating forces?
Definition
Operating forces are those forces whose primary missions are to participate in combat and the integral supporting elements thereof.
Term
What ADP/ADRP covers The Operations Process?
Definition
ADP/ADRP 5-0.
Term
What is the Army’s framework for exercising mission command?
Definition
The operations process.
Term
What are the major mission command activities performed during operations?
Definition
• Planning.
• Preparing.
• Executing.
• Continuously assessing the operation.
Term
How do commanders drive the operations process?
Definition
Through understanding, visualizing, describing, directing, leading, and assessing operations.
Term
Through understanding, visualizing, describing, directing, leading, and assessing operations.
Definition
An operational environment.
Term
What is MDMP?
Definition
The military decision-making process is an iterative planning methodology to understand the situation and mission, develop a course of action, and produce an operation plan or order.
Term
What are the MDMP steps?
Definition
• Step 1 – Receipt of mission.
• Step 2 – Mission analysis.
• Step 3 – Course of action development.
• Step 4 – Course of action analysis.
• Step 5 – Course of action comparison.
• Step 6 – Course of action approval.
• Step 7 – Orders production, dissemination, and transition.
Term
What are troop-leading procedures?
Definition
Troop-leading procedures are a dynamic process used by small-unit leaders to analyze a mission, develop a plan, and prepare for an operation. TLP are used by commanders and leaders without a staff.
Term
What are the troop leading procedure steps?
Definition
• Step 1 – Receive the mission.
• Step 2 – Issue a warning order.
• Step 3 – Make a tentative plan.
• Step 4 – Initiate movement.
• Step 5 – Conduct reconnaissance.
• Step 6 – Complete the plan.
• Step 7 – Issue the order.
• Step 8 – Supervise and refine the plan.
Term
What ADP/ADRP covers Mission Command?
Definition
ADP/ADRP 6-0.
Term
What is the Army’s operational concept?
Definition
Unified land operations.
Term
How are unified land operations accomplished?
Definition
Through decisive action.
Term
What is decisive action?
Definition
The simultaneous combination of offensive, defensive, and stability operations (or defense support of civil authorities) that set the conditions for favorable conflict resolution.
Term
What is the exercise of authority and direction by the commander using mission orders to enable disciplined initiative within the commander’s intent to empower agile and adaptive leaders in the conduct of unified land operations?
Definition
Mission command.
Term
What are the six principles of mission command?
Definition
• Build cohesive teams through mutual trust.
• Create shared understanding.
• Provide a clear commander’s intent.
• Exercise disciplined initiative.
• Use mission orders.
• Accept prudent risk.
Term
Who are unified action partners?
Definition
Unified action partners are those military forces, governmental and nongovernmental organizations, and elements of the private sector with whom Army forces plan, coordinate, synchronize, and integrate during the conduct of operations.
Term
What is unity of effort?
Definition
Unity of effort is coordination and cooperation toward common objectives, even if the participants are not necessarily part of the same command or organization—the product of successful unified action.
Term
What is the commander’s intent?
Definition
The commander’s intent is a clear and concise expression of the purpose of the operation and the desired military end state that supports mission command, provides focus to the staff, and helps subordinate and supporting commanders act to achieve the commander’s desired results without further orders, even when the operation does not unfold as planned.
Term
What are mission orders?
Definition
Mission orders are directives that emphasize to subordinates the results to be attained, not how they are to achieve them.
Term
What is the art of command?
Definition
The art of command as the creative and skillful exercise of authority through timely decision-making and leadership.
Term
What ADP/ADRP covers Army Leadership?
Definition
ADP/ADRP 6-22.
Term
What is leadership?
Definition
Leadership is the process of influencing people by providing purpose, direction, and motivation to accomplish the mission and improve the organization.
Term
What is an Army Leader?
Definition
An Army leader is anyone who by virtue of assumed role or assigned responsibility inspires and influences people to accomplish organizational goals.
Term
How can leaders mitigate resistance?
Definition
Leaders can mitigate resistance by anticipating what others value, their reactions to influence, their shared understanding of common goals, and their commitment to the general organization or the purpose of the mission and their trust in the organization and the leader.
Term
What is command?
Definition
Command is the authority that a commander in the armed forces lawfully exercises over subordinates by virtue of rank or assignment.
Term
What is mission command?
Definition
Mission command is the exercise of authority and direction by the commander using mission orders to enable disciplined initiative within the commander’s intent to empower agile and adaptive leaders in the conduct of unified land operations.
Term
What conveys the expectations that the Army wants leaders to meet?
Definition
The Leadership Requirements Model
Term
What are the leader attributes?
Definition
Character, presence and intellect.
Term
What are the three categories of competencies?
Definition
• The Army leader serves to lead others.
• The Army leader serves to develop the environment, themselves, others and the profession as a whole.
• The Army leader serves to achieve organizational goals.
Term
The category of leads encompasses five competencies. What are they?
Definition
• Leads others.
• Extends influence beyond the chain of command.
• Builds trust.
• Leads by example.
• Communicates.
Term
What is the purpose of ADP 6-22, Army Leadership?
Definition
ADP 6-22 establishes the fundamental principles by which Army leaders accomplish their missions and care for their people.
Term
What ADP/ADRP covers Training Units and Developing Leaders?
Definition
ADP/ADRP 7-0.
Term
Who is responsible for training units and developing leaders?
Definition
Commanders.
Term
Where does training begin?
Definition
Training begins in the generating force.
Term
Where do Soldiers build on the fundamental skills, knowledge, and behaviors, which were developed in institutional training?
Definition
Operational assignments.
Term
What is the Army’s institutional training and education system, which primarily includes training base centers and schools that provide initial training and subsequent professional military education for Soldiers, military leaders, and Army civilians?
Definition
The institutional training domain.
Term
What are the training active organizations undertake while at home station, at maneuver combat training centers, during joint exercises, at mobilization centers, and while operationally deployed?
Definition
The operational training domain.
Term
What is planned, goal-oriented learning that reinforces and expands the depth and breadth of an individual’s knowledge base, self-awareness, and situational awareness; complements institutional and operational learning; enhances professional competence; and meets personal objectives?
Definition
The self-development training domain.
Term
What process do commanders apply to unit training and leader development?
Definition
The operations process—plan, prepare, execute, and assess
Term
What are the Army principles of unit training?
Definition
• Commanders and other leaders are responsible for training.
• Noncommissioned officers train individuals, crews, and small teams.
• Train to standard.
• Train as you will fight.
• Train while operating.
• Train fundamentals first.
• Train to develop adaptability.
• Understand the operational environment.
• Train to sustain.
• Train to maintain.
• Conduct multi-echelon and concurrent training.
Term
What does METL stand for and what is it?
Definition
The unit’s mission-essential task list (METL) represents the doctrinal framework of fundamental tasks for which the unit was designed.
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