Chapter 5 explains how leaders use evaluations and other training feedback to conduct unit assessments. The appendixes provide additional information to assist leaders in planning, executing, and assessing training in units. They provide examples and helpful techniques and procedures that can be readily applied to specific training situations for AC and RC units. Unless this publication states otherwise, masculine nouns or pronouns do not refer exclusively to men. As leaders, our sacred responsibility is to ensure that no soldier ever dies in combat because that soldier was not properly trained.
Training is the cornerstone of readiness and the basis for credible deterrence and capable defense.
Training is the means by which the Army's quality soldiers and leaders develop their warfighting proficiency and exercise the collective capabilities they will require in combat. While senior leaders determine the direction and goals of training, it is the officers and noncommissioned officers at battalion, company, and platoon level who ensure that every training activity is well planned and rigorously executed. FM 25-100, Training The Force, established our training doctrine. FM 25-101, Battle Focused Training, applies this doctrine and assists leaders in the development and execution of training programs. Our duty as leaders is to provide demanding and realistic training for our soldiers.