Is the training at Fort Bliss primarily skills-oriented, or is there a force-on-force engagement component?
It’s skills-oriented at the small unit level. It’s difficult to get a force-on-force type of operation going out there. And the training apparatus that the Army is building, the infrastructure that they built at Fort Bliss is very good in that they have shoot houses and live-fire ranges that replicate many of the scenarios that we run into. The modern Army training program and the modern Army range programs have been outstanding and are getting us out of the “flat-range” era that we all grew up with. As you look over this decade-long process of updating your training system, how do you feel it has gone in terms of updating that pipeline? Is that pipeline today relevant to what your needs are? It’s increasingly relevant. We just had a Commanders Readiness Conference where we discussed that [point] … we’ve created a mechanism whereby changes we see or anticipate in the field, primarily in battle, are rolled into the formal process that goes back to JFKSWCS. [So when] we say, “Hey, this i
