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Army Training Tougher, More Complicated, Like Environment

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, February 28th, 2012

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The Army of 2020 will be smaller, but whatever its size, the service chief says readiness is non-negotiable and that force must be highly trained, a Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) officer said. Training now is “based on the complexity of the operational environment,” said Col. Robert “Pat” White, deputy commander of the Combined Arms Center-Training (CAC-T), in a Feb. 22 roundtable from the AUSA Winter Symposium in Fla. The service has to replicate the complex, uncertain, ambiguous and volatile…

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