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A role player voices her concerns about the newly-arrived paratroopers at the city of Dara Lam, Joint Readiness Training Center, Fort Polk, La., Sept. 18. Combat Training Centers create realistic scenarios and provide leaders a comprehensive approach...
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A U.S. Air Force C-130 drops supplies to paratroopers from 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, during a training rotation at the Joint Readiness Training Center, Sept. 18. Combat Training Centers create realistic scenarios and provide le...
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A U.S. Air Force C-17 lands at a secured airfield to deliver supplies to paratroopers from 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, at the Joint Readiness Training Center, Fort Polk, La., Sept. 19. Combat Training Centers create realistic sce...
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A Soldier, from 3rd Battalion, 144th Infantry Regiment, Texas Army National Guard, plays the part of an Atropian soldier during a rotation at the Joint Readiness Training Center, Fort Polk, La., Sept. 18. Combat Training Centers create realistic scen...
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Soldiers pull security as village role players address concerns about the newly-arrived American forces at the city of Dara Lam, Joint Readiness Training Center, Fort Polk, La., Sept. 18. Combat Training Centers create realistic scenarios and provide...
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Paratroopers from 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, pull security next to a building during a visit to the city of Dara Lam, Joint Readiness Training Center, Fort Polk La., Sept. 18. Combat Training Centers create realistic scenarios a...
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A U.S. Air Force C-130 drops supplies to paratroopers, from 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, during a training rotation at the Joint Readiness Training Center, Sept. 18. Combat Training Centers create realistic scenarios and provide l...
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Carol Adams, also known as Soleyman Jasara while role playing as an Internet café manager, writes on the Joint Readiness Training Center's rotational blog Sept. 18. The blog is a part of the Decisive Action Training Environment (DATE) that creat...
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An U.S. Air Force C-17 prepares to take off from the Geronimo Airfield landing strip after delivering supplies to paratroopers from 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division at the Joint Readiness Training Center, Fort Polk, La., Sept. 18. Comb...
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A U.S. Air Force C-17 takes off at a secured airfield after delivering supplies to paratroopers from 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, at the Joint Readiness Training Center, Fort Polk, La., Sept. 18. Combat Training Centers create rea...
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A Humvee serves as a road block during a training exercise at the Joint Readiness Training Center, Fort Polk, La., Sept. 19. Combat Training Centers create realistic scenarios and provide leaders a comprehensive approach to training in a joint intera...
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Spc. John Glossip, a medic with 2nd Platoon, Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, pulls security as other members of the platoon talk with role players at the Joint Readiness...
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An Apache helicopter flies over a secured airfield at the Joint Readiness Training Center, Fort Polk, La., Sept. 19. Combat Training Centers create realistic scenarios and provide leaders a comprehensive approach to training in a joint interagency, i...
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Spc. Nathaniel Morgan, a communication specialist with Charlie Battery, 2nd Battalion, 319th Airborne Field Artillery Regiment, sits behind a .50-caliber machine gun helping pull security around his battery at the Joint Readiness Training Center, For...
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Pfc. James Kester (left) improves his fighting position, as Pfc. Angel Fuentes (right) pulls security, both paratroopers are with Charlie Battery, 2nd Battalion, 319th Airborne Field Artillery, at the Joint Readiness Training Center, Fort Polk, La., ...
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FORT POLK, La.- Army, National Guard and Air Force service members attended a Decisive Action Training Environment (DATE) rotation at the Joint Readiness Training Center (JRTC) in Fort Polk, Louisiana, during the month of September.
DATE training allows Brigade Combat Teams to synchronize capabilities, weapons systems and effects in time and space in order to accomplish the mission across a full spectrum of operations.
"Decisive action training environment training is important for all soldiers and civilians that support these organizations," said retired Command Sgt. Maj. Franklin Ashe, now a technical adviser for Training and Doctrine (TRADOC) Command Brigade Combat Teams.
In the past, JRTC and other Combat Training Centers (CTC) have held Mission Readiness Exercises (MRE) for units that are getting ready to deploy to Iraq or Afghanistan, and now the focus has shifted to a more worldwide decisive action approach.
"The leadership in these environments is very challenging because of all the friction from the weather, the terrain, the enemy activity, getting your mission command radio and computers up and running so you can communicate with your subordinate elements so you can get them where they need," said Ashe.
DATE training generates unit readiness and enhances agile leaders who are confident in their ability to operate in complex environments.
"It's important to have that training because you never know what's coming," said Spc. Andrew Hewett with Charlie Battery, 2nd Battalion, 319th Airborne Field Artillery Regiment "We could be called at any moment to any location with little preparation, so this is important because if we get the call to go then we'll know what to do."
CTC's provide the opportunity for rotational units to experience all aspects of worldwide operations.
"The systems are in place to control the brigade, all the civilians, villages and wildlife. It's almost impossible to replicate this type of training mission at home station," Ashe said.
Getting away from a home station field training exercise not only gives a different environment, it gives Soldiers new training opportunities they don't normally see.
"We get a lot of good training on packing up our equipment, having to inventory and move our equipment. When we get here, we have to make do with what we have, instead of just having it all right there for us," said Hewett.
This type of training is also incorporating different national and international government and nongovernment agencies.
"We don't want to lose our expertise and knowledge that we gained working with outside agencies," said Ashe. "CTCs have the ability to replicate the different agencies, so the leaders in the military can continue to understand how to communicate with them and effectively conduct their operations, or allow the agencies to conduct their operations."
The CTC Decisive Action Training Environment rotation that is occurring at JRTC is ensuring the continued worldwide mission readiness of the Army, and other services.
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