Destroy lightly armored vehicles. Fire on suspected enemy positions. This overall training strategy is multi-faceted and includes the specific strategies used in institution and unit programs, as well as the supporting strategies for use of resources such as publications, ranges, ammunitions, training aids, devices, simulators, and simulations. These strategies are focused on the development of both critical soldier skills and training tasks, as well as well as leader skills that are required to support the overall intended outcome. Both of these may include individual and collective skills.
Initial training is critical.
This means that initial training must be right. Standard, common and current procedures are used. Over time, individual and unit skills decay. The amount of decay depends on many factors that include the difficulty and complexity of the tasks. Personnel turnover is a primary factor in decay of collective skills, because the loss of critical team or crew members normally causes a need for retraining to restore unit proficiency.