In addition to planning training on soldier and collective tasks and scheduling field exercises or unit simulations, units can adjust their training plans to incorporate solutions to common problems experienced at CTCs Commanders must enforce training to standard on wartime mission essential tasks and increase the level of realism through changing or varying conditions. Thus they ensure units attain and sustain battle proficiency within a band of excellence. The combat training center program provides the most realistic environment available for corps and subordinate units during peacetime. Further, the CTCs focus on those soldier tasks and leadership skills that contribute directly to the success or failure of collective tasks and unit missions. The CTCs teach combat doctrine in a straightforward way.
Action takes place day and night during all weather conditions.
The dirt and dust, radio jamming, smoke, simulated chemical agents, and battlefield sounds all contribute to the realistic fog of battle. The key to combat readiness is maintaining battle focus and training programs that sustain unit performance within a band of excellence. Units must be combat-ready to deploy, fight, win, and survive to fight again. To be combat ready, units must perform METL tasks to MTP standards and synchronize combat power at the company and team and battalion and task force levels. Commanders must use every opportunity to train soldiers as a combined arms team under tough, realistic conditions.