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25-04 (946), FY 24 MCTP Key Observations (Feb 25) [PDF - 11.8 MB]
Foreword
The Mission Command Training Program (MCTP) is the U.S. Army’s premier deployable combat training center that is Chief of Staff of the Army directed. It is scheduled by U.S. Army Forces Command through the semi-annual Army Synchronization and Resourcing Conference and resourced by U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC). It is guided by TRADOC Regulation 350-50-3. Team MCTP consists of four operations groups focused on corps, divisions, and special operations forces training audiences as well as a MCTP staff including exercise control that enables coverage and execution for up to five 10-day Warfighter exercises (WFXs) per fiscal year. The team of teams within MCTP does this by providing doctrinally sound, professional observer/controller, trainers and providing the most rigorous constructive training environment possible framed through the lens of the training units and Army senior leader-approved training objectives. WFXs are professionally rigorous leader development experiences to drive further change and education on warfighting doctrine while enhancing unit readiness.
At the beginning of fiscal year 2024, the Chief of Staff of the Army directed the Army Service Component Commands (ASCCs) (theater armies) to be the higher commands for corps-level WFXs. The two fiscal year 2024 repetitions were: U.S. Army Europe-Africa as the higher command for V Corps in Warfighter Exercise 24-3 which was further linked to European Command’s Austere Challenge 24 in March 2024 and U.S. Army Pacific Command as higher command for XVIII Airborne Corps Warfighter Exercise 24-5 in August 2024. The scope and rigor provided to V and XVIII Airborne Corps with ASCC/theater armies as their higher command is a “sustain” practice to provide the most rigorous combat training center experience in the constructive training environment to facilitate collective training and leader development experiences for commanders and their staffs to plan, prepare, fight, and win in large-scale combat operations.
This publication captures the MCTP observations and learning from the four fiscal year 2024 Warfighter exercises focused on large-scale combat operations. The first chapter captures the MCTP overall observations with six additional chapters that cover observations of the six warfighting functions.
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