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Using the Virtual Battle Space 2 programme in the MTC Gaming Lab at Fort Riley, Soldiers can create a personal avatar and enter into a realistic virtual mission scenario, tailored to meet their unit’s training needs
“In this era of budget constraints, one of the key efficiencies in training is virtual, constructive and gaming training before doing it live,” said Tim Livsey, director, Fort Riley’s Directorate of Plans, Training, Mobilisation and Security. “It’s efficient – soldiers can use the MTC’s many computers, individually or collectively, to set up simulations based on their unit’s training needs. Simulations also can be linked to unit components in widespread locations for large scale training, or can be limited to a squad or platoon.”
Gated-training strategy
Livsey added: “On an individual level, the campus’s Engagement Skills Trainer allows soldiers to qualify with a weapon in an arcade-type system before actually going out on the range. This pre-training, or gated training strategy, allows soldiers to build their skill sets on virtual trainers at a pittance of taxpayer dollars rather than incurring the expense of training on the range with real bullets. It’s effective, saves money, saves time, and
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the soldier enters the live-training phase at a higher level of training than if he had entered at square zero.” On a collective level, Unified Endeavour 12-01, a three-week combined command post exercise last January, allowed the following groups to participate in the training event from remote locations in preparation for the ‘Big Red One’s’ Headquarters deployments to Afghanistan in 2012:
• Soldiers with the 3rd Infantry, 1st Cavalry and 101st Airborne divisions;
• Contractors, observers, trainers and senior mentors with the Mission Command Training Programme, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas
• Select leadership with the Afghan national security forces;
• Soldiers with the Polish and French Armies and Soldiers with V Corps in Germany
“Active and Reserve components have used the MTC, as
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