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Proper planning is the foundation of military success.
Former U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower once said, “In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.”
While Ukrainian soldiers of the 1st Airmobile Battalion, 79th Air Assault Brigade practice gunnery and movement techniques in the field at the combat training center near Yavoriv, Ukraine, 1-79th staff officers are hard at work in the classroom each day perfecting the art of planning.
Staff officer education is one of the significant efforts the Joint Multinational Training Group-Ukraine is making towards professionalizing the Ukrainian army.
The goal of staff training is to familiarize Ukrainian units with the organization of a NATO staff and help them understand how each staff section contributes to the operation’s process.
While the rotational unit’s companies are in the field training on individual and collective tasks, the battalion staff are completing their military decision making process training, explained Capt. Kurt Jarvis, the 45th Infantry Brigade Combat Team’s simulations officer assigned to JMTG-U.
The MDMP facilitates a collaborative approach to decision-making, helping commanders make better choices based on counsel from a variety of perspectives.
During staff training, the officers are taught the MDMP, and led through the steps of situation and mission analysis, course of action development, and operation order production.
“Ukrainian CTC instructors present a hypothetical scenario and mission to the Ukrainian students and guide them through the MDMP process,” said Jarvis. “The international mentors in the room build the CTC’s capacity by supporting these instructors and improving their ability to teach MDMP.”
Each Ukrainian officer analyses the mission individually and then briefs his or her relevant portion to the CTC staff.
The Ukrainian CTC instructors then evaluate the students.
“They’re evaluated on their ability to replicate the NATO planning process,” Jarvis said. “We’re looking for the critical outputs of each step to ensure they’re preforming the actions correctly.”
JMTG-U mentors from the U.S., U.K., Poland, Lithuania, and Canada provide feedback, based on their observations, to the CTC instructors to ensure that all gaps are identified before the CTC instructors debrief the students.
Currently, Ukrainian staff officers of the 1-79th are completing their first iteration of MDMP.
Next week they’ll begin a simulation-supported command post exercise to practice the skills they are learning in the classroom.
In the future, mobile training teams will conduct this staff training at the incoming units’ home stations ahead of their rotation at the CTC to facilitate faster training.
“The concept for 2018 is to get it down to a 30-day training rotation, thereby allowing more units to rotate through the CTC” Jarvis said.
| Date Taken: | 06.01.2017 |
| Date Posted: | 06.01.2017 02:10 |
| Story ID: | 235911 |
| Location: | YAVORIV, UA |
| Hometown: | EDMOND, OKLAHOMA, US |
| Hometown: | NORMAN, OKLAHOMA, US |
| Hometown: | OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA, US |
| Hometown: | STILLWATER, OKLAHOMA, US |
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