Tuesday, May 12, 2015
What is it?
The Medical Training Task Force (MTTF) provides training support for Army National Guard and Army Reserve medical units during pre- and post-mobilization unit collective training to support readiness and prepare deploying Soldiers and units for a combatant command requirement. Composed of First Army medical skills observer coach/trainers (OC/Ts), the MTTF:
What has the Army Reserve done?
In 2004, U.S. Army Forces Command directed First Army to establish a pre-deployment trauma training program for deploying health care specialists and combat medics. Originally located at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington, under the command and control of First Army's 191st Infantry Brigade, the MTTF provided training support for MRXs for all medical units up to the brigade level. After several reorganizations, the MTTF moved to Fort Hood, Texas, in January 2012 where it has since provided post-mobilization MRX support to more than 80 reserve-component medical units (approximately 4,000 medical personnel).
What efforts does the Army Reserve plan to continue?
Current MTTF structure ensures First Army has the capability to:
Why is this important to the Army?
Reserve-component medical units make up approximately 68 percent of the Army's total medical force. First Army's MTTF has the unique mission of providing medically-focused training support to sustain unit readiness levels of non-deploying reserve-component medical units and conducting unit collective training to prepare deploying reserve-component medical Soldiers to meet worldwide combatant commander requirements.
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Quote for the Day
They're a strong group of Soldiers, who are working their way through the U.S. Army's most physically and mentally demanding course.
- Maj. Gen. Scott Miller, commanding general, Maneuver Center of Excellence, admiring the motivation of the Soldiers, including the recycled eight women Soldiers in a first-ever gender-integrated class of the Army's Ranger School
Eight women in Ranger School recycled
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