Military Review English Edition January-February 2015 | Page 64

The Training Brain
Repository–Exercise
Design Tool for HomeStation Training
Col. David G. Paschal, U.S. Army, Retired, and
Maj. Alan L. Gunnerson, U.S. Army, Retired

T

he business of planning and developing
home-station training has assumed greater
significance as the Army transitions to an
Army of preparation in an environment of reduced
resources.1 The challenge to create a more robust
home-station training capability requires realistic
training that incorporates the depth and complexity
of real-world operational environments; technological capabilities that are affordable and sustainable;
and a return to command ownership of the process
of creating training tasks, objectives, and goals.
In support of the Army’s effort to revitalize home-station training, the Training Brain
Operations Center (TBOC), an element of the
U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command
(TRADOC) G-2 (Assistant Chief of Staff,
Intelligence) Operational Environment Enterprise,
is answering this challenge. The TBOC has created a
tool that returns ownership of training to commanders by harnessing technology to train faster, better,
and more efficiently.
The tool replicates the operational environment
by setting the conditions in which meaningful training can occur, and it facilitates how users plan and
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implement training while significantly reducing the
time it takes to develop rigorous exercises. This article illustrates how the Training Brain RepositoryExercise Design Tool (TBR-EDT) facilitates a commander’s ability to increase the complexity, realism,
and depth of an exercise’s live, virtual, and constructive training environment with previously impossible
speed and fidelity.
January-February 2015  MILITARY REVIEW