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

TRADOC Pam 525-3-7-01 Officer and NCO professional education must deliver progressive and sequential trainingon those leadership skills needed to prevent COSR casualties. The Army must have the capability to identify those applicants with obviouspsychological factors that should eliminate them from military service. The Army must provide the facilities at home station and in the AO that positively affectSoldier morale (such as, Department of Family and Children's Services; morale, welfare,and recreation; Soldier living quarters, training and maintenance facilities, familyhousing, force protection, and health care). The Army must provide the capability—education, training, facilities, equipment, andtime to maintain an optimum physical fitness. The Army must have the capability to remotely monitor a Soldier’s physical signs ofstress and deliver on demand pharmaceuticals and other treatment to immediately reduceor mitigate those physical and mental stress factors. The Army must manage Soldiers’ assignments so that Soldiers have many opportunitiesto recover from COSR and other stress factors. The Army needs adequate numbers of combat operational stress control detachments toprovide a minimum of one per division with teams to each BCT or brigade. The Army must establish mental health support for spouses and children affected by aSoldier's COSR. This is critically important for reserve component Soldiers who return totheir civilian lives upon redeployment and demobilization. The Army must focus more on developing hardiness and resiliency, on how leadershipimpacts dramatically on combat stress reactions, how urban warfare produces morecasualties and why.Questions for Further ExplorationAre current stress control TTPs and interventions effective in preparing Soldierpsychologically for combat and reducing COSR casualties, and are efforts to reduce thebarriers to seeking medical care effective?Why do most Soldiers adjust well to the demands of combat while a few develop COSRinjuries? How can the Army amplify the benefits of stressful situations?Does the type of operation (major combat operations, COIN, peacekeeping, humanitarian)affect the warrior spirit, morale, unit cohesion, and COSR?Is the Army accurately capturing the incidents of COSR injuries?How great an impact does physical fitness have on reducing a Soldier’s susceptibility toCOSR and other stress factors?What emerging or future technologies can detect building stress and provide on demandmitigation or treatment? Consider both physical and mental stress factors.How does a Soldier’s personal morality impact on susceptibility to COSR and other stressfactors? How can the Army mitigate the cognitive dissonance between combat actionsand the values and ethics ingrained in the Soldier through his cultural/religiousbackground and/or his Army education and training?What educational approaches will best enable a Soldier to understand stress? Will suchan understanding help a Soldier anticipate and address the physical, cognitive, and moralchallenges generated during training and operations?146