TRAINING AND EDUCATION
A 510th Human Resources Company noncommissioned officer gives an inbound briefing to Soldiers from the 7th Transportation Brigade (Expeditionary) acting as role players for the training exercise Resolute Silver Scimitar.
Human Resources Training:
Where Do We Go From Here?
In the absence of Silver Scimitar, a special troops battalion developed its own exercise to train its
human resources platoons for an upcoming deployment.
Lt. Col. Noah C. Cloud and Shawn C. Neely
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or many years, human resources (HR) Soldiers relied
on a two-week HR training exercise called Silver Scimitar
to learn and improve the skills of
their trade. But the annual exercise
at Fort Devens, Massachusetts, was
not funded, and the Forces Command has transferred deployment
training responsibilities back to
sustainment brigades.
In March 2014, the 7th Sustainment Brigade transformed into the
7th Transportation Brigade (Expeditionary) (TBX). By modified table of organization and equipment
(MTOE), the new unit has no human resources operations branch,
which normally provides HR expertise for sustainment brigades.
To overcome its lack of HR expertise and prepare for the deployment of two HR platoons and a
theater gateway personnel accountability team (TG PAT), the special
troops battalion (STB) of the 7th
TBX conducted an exercise called
Resolute Silver Scimitar, modeled
after Silver Scimitar. In conducting
Resolute Silver Scimitar, the unit
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