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

TRADOC Pam 525-3-7-01Although there is some overlap between the three areas of investigation (S&T research,experimentation, and studies), they each play a unique role in helping to achieve the goalsembodied in this concept. For example, S&T research will provide innovative new learningprinciples, methods, models, and metrics to make TLE Soldier-centered and precise. S&Tresearch will also produce the technological advances required to improve realism and access totraining, education, and knowledge by Soldiers, leaders, and units. As the types of researchproblems that need addressing are not bounded by a single traditional discipline, future TLE S&Tresearch will primarily be multidisciplinary and integrative in nature. Experimentation willprovide the venues needed to try out new learning methods and technologies to refine theunderstanding of the TLE concept and capabilities. Studies will pull together existinginformation to support decisionmaking and, when applied to new or pilot TLE programs, tell uswhich approaches are most cost effective and learning effective.Grasping the complexity of the future OE and mastering the knowledge and skills needed toconduct successfully full spectrum operations in that environment is a significant challenge forthe Soldier and his leadership. The challenge dramatically increases when called upon toexercise those skills in conflict. Striving to defeat an adversary, while adhering to your own andthe Army’s moral and ethical standards, taxes the Soldier morally, physically, and cognitively.The challenges inevitably produce stress in the Soldier. Emerging understanding of the physicaland mental reactions of the human to stress suggests that—while stress is a natural and inevitablereaction to the environment—it need not be debilitating to the individual or the unit. Thefollowing chapter discusses the causes of stress, factors that mitigate its impact, and potentialmeans of predicting, detecting, and treating stress before, during, and after its occurrence.VignetteFort Carson, Colorado, March 2020Sergeant Lance Topping and his men have been training together for two years. Heunderstands the importance of constantly improving combat skills and keeping up on the latestTTPs. After uploading the current TTPs, Sergeant Topping accesses the unit trainingmanagement tool taking a quick look at his squad’s readiness. He knows that it has been sometime since his squad used the intelligence gathering skills so critical to a reconnaissancesurveillance, and target acquisition unit. Reconnaissance, surveillance, and target acquisition(RSTA) is all about intelligence. He scans the list of training available from the Armyinstitutional knowledge center through DL and selects a training program, uploading theinformation onto the hand held computers of the two FSV-R teams in his squad.They are at the training center on post, set up in a field environment. Each squad membersees his tablet computer screen flash the message that Topping has sent them a program. Theyverify that the download for their translator system is up to date. This particular program is setfor the Indonesian scenario they will be using at the National Training Center. Sergeant Toppinghas his Soldiers zero their rifles and go through possible scenarios in the mobile virtual shooting127