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device BATTLEBOARD, a robust and transportable table-top terrain modeling simulator, and readily
adapted doctrinally based Battle-Task training scenarios, as well as pre-existing knowledge of the
general nature of tactical uncertainties of combat arms units, and the compressed time frames and clear
field testing which Reserve settings offer.
11. Interrupted Training Schedules
Moreover, Army Reserve Unit training curriculum has not yet been specifically addressed in terms of
the real constraints confronting a Army Reserve Unit. The Army Reserve Unit soldier trains “part time”,
while the “Regular Force” soldier can train “fulltime”. Courses and exercises are not interrupted for the
Regulars while they always are for the Reserve Unit. The usual method of fitting training requirements
to Reserve Unit needs is to cut parts out of a curriculum, sequence the course curriculum differently, and/
or stretch it out over a longer time period. Clearly these approaches will not be adequate for enlarged
Reserve Units in a Total Force Army.
Thus, throughout this project there is a concurrent activity devoted to applying the ingredients of a
theory/model of linked learning. This theory/model is needed in order to accomodate the time
available for training the Reserve Unit person. Usually this time is available in “dribs and drabs”.
As a consequence, the curriculum must be parcelled out for the Reserve Unit in such a fashion that
the results of training are the same as for the Regulars, who engage the curriculum as a coherent
whole.
The core assertion of this linked learning notion is that each BATTLE-TASK (e.g. “Advance to
contact” - Infantry alone), is taught “wholistically”, in the teams that are in command, using terrain
models, with the instructor using the “inductive” mode of instruction. The objective is to increase
situational awareness in the team, and enable them to distinguish between “discipline” and “initiative”
to increase the teams comprehension of, and the use of, “Disciplined Initiative”
12. Action
Figures 2,3,&4, overleaf portray the format of the trials that conform action science research strategy
encouraged by Argyris et el(1985), and the Personnel Applied Research method used by the PAR team.
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