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Original publisher: Washington, D.C. (P.O. Box 37050, Washington 20013) : The Office, [1995]. OCLC Number: (OCoLC)37274377 Subject: Military education -- United States. Excerpt: ... Chapter 1 Introduction * increasing active Army and National Guard integration and training support by assigning active Army advisers to reserve units and implementing other initiatives. The Army began testing the Bold Shift strategy on the seven former roundout / up brigades and other reserve units during fiscal year 1992. According to the Director of the Bold Shift task force, however, it may take 5 to 10 years before the impact of the strategy is clearly known. We reviewed the training results of the seven enhanced brigades that were Objectives, Scope, former roundout / up brigades to determine whether ( 1 ) the Bold Shift and Methodology training strategy has enabled combat brigades to meet peacetime training goals, ( 2 ) the advisers assigned to the brigades were working effectively to improve training readiness, and ( 3 ) prospects of having the brigades ready for war within 90 days are likely. At the time we selected the seven brigades for review, they comprised all of the Army's roundout / up brigades. Because of their higher priority for resources, these brigades should have been the best trained. Support units, such as artillery, military police, and engineering units, were not included in our work. Despite mobilization problems, many support units deployed on time and served effectively during the Gulf War. Our work at the seven brigades covered five of the seven primary Bold Shift initiatives. We obtained data on the brigades ' progress in meeting five key Bold Shift training goals in the areas of soldier, leader, and unit training and discussed the results with brigade officials and active Army advisers. These five training goals were platoons fully trained in mission-essential tasks; tank and Bradley Fighting Vehicle crews trained in gunnery; 85 percent of soldiers fu
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