TRADOC Pam 525-3-7-01 - TRADOC - U.S. Army

TRADOC Pam 525-3-7-01He didn’t have the strength to stand, but he struggled to gain some footing, pushing, andthrashing with diminishing vigor. In minutes it would be over. He’d run out of reserves.Millsaps last thought was of his wife, Sharon, and their two children. He didn’t give up,though, still kicking feebly until the weapons bag caught on something and the unconsciousofficer came to a stop face up in an eddy hidden from sight from the shore by tall reeds.Lieutenant Woodrow W. Millsaps was a member of the 508 th Parachute Infantry Regiment ofthe fabled 82 nd Airborne Division during World War II. His awards for his actions during the D-Day landings include the Silver Star. Many of his compatriots landed in marshes and drowned inspite of their great physical condition. Woodrow W. Millsaps IV is a fictional character who willsurvive his ordeal to rejoin his unit. His story points up the incredible importance of not onlyphysical fitness, but also training and determination. Millsaps drew on both conditioning, innerfortitude, pride, tradition, and ingrained training to save his life. Extrapolation to the larger forceof this very individual example allows the force to get its full message. Leaders lead by example.Soldiers learn from each other and those they trust and admire. Woody the Fourth never gave up,and his fellow Soldiers would not give up on him either or leave him behind.Required CapabilitiesThe future Modular Force requires systematic and progressive physical developmentprograms that provide a universal development and assessment of overall physical fitness, aswell as MOS specific training and assessment tools to address the needs of each specific MOSacross the operating and generating forces.The future Modular Force requires a physical development trainer’s program to provideresident expertise within each battalion and higher organization. The physicaldevelopment trainer provides unit leaders with increased awareness of trainingtechniques, physical fitness program design, and consistent and reliable assessment tools.The future Modular Force requires highly educated and skilled practitioners to design,administer, and monitor the Army’s physical program.The reserve components of the future Modular Force require fully funded, easily accessedhigh quality fitness facilities to allow Soldiers to train while not on military orders.The future Modular Force requires the ability to conduct physical training while deployedto ensure Soldiers are physically capable to endure the rigor of deployment.The future Modular Force requires an increase in funded educational programs to provideadvanced civilian and military educational opportunities in exercise physiology; sportsmedicine, kinesiology, and sports fitness (for example, brigade surgeons completingsports medicine fellowships, a kinesiology major at the USMA).The Army requires training and advice in good nutrition and the services of assignednutritionists.97