General military training
Subtitle: standardization and reduction options
By: Roland J. Yardley, Dulani Woods, Cesse Cameron Ip, Jerry M. Sollinger
Contributors: Woods, Dulani; Ip, Cesse; Sollinger, Jerry M.; Rand Corporation; National Defense Research Institute (U.S.)
Series: Technical report -- TR-1222-OSD; Technical report (Rand Corporation) -- TR-1222-OSD.
Publisher: RAND
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Santa Monica, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 100
ISBN-13: 9780833069122
Subjects: Vocational guidance; Armed Forces; Training of; Military education; Military readiness; Operational readiness; United States. Department of Defense; United States
Description: Every uniformed service member, whether Active Component (AC) or Reserve Component (RC), must complete ancillary or general military training (GMT) requirements prescribed by his or her service. Individual services direct some topics, and some are stipulated by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). DoD has identified a need to reduce cyclic mandatory training requirements (especially for the RCs), thus reducing the training burden on the services and making the most of available training time. The RAND National Defense Research Institute was asked to examine the services' mandatory military training requirements and examine options to standardize requirements and reduce the training burden. This report responds to that request by providing a common definition of GMT and examining both the guidance that directs GMT completion and the services' approaches to conducting GMT. The authors identified GMT requirements directed by law and policy and interviewed service AC and RC subject-matter experts.
Notes: "National Defense Research Institute."

"Prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 93-100).
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Defining general military training and establishing general military training baseline topics; title: Summary of service approaches to general military training; title: Why general military training is a challenge; title: What options exist to standardize requirements for general military training and reduce its burden?; title: Conclusions and recommendations.