What do you call the walkthrough before a training event?

2023-07-24T16:17:27-04:00

Often times, when a training event has several stations, a leader will pull one person out of the group and have them run through each station while the leader instructs and guides them through each step. Everyone else walks along, stands back, and watches. I swear we have a name for this. Classroom something...

Asnwer: Walking the dog. (CPT Brooks)

Response by CPT Private RallyPoint Member made Jul 24 at 2023 4:40 PM

2023-07-24T16:40:11-04:00

sandtable?

Response by MAJ Ken Landgren made Jul 24 at 2023 5:46 PM

2023-07-24T17:46:04-04:00

Crawl phase. Task, Conditions, and Standards. Walk through.

Response by MSG Private RallyPoint Member made Jul 25 at 2023 11:07 PM

2023-07-25T23:07:39-04:00

Personally, I call this a ROC Drill or Tabletop...or even a Sandtable.

Response by CSM William Everroad made Jul 31 at 2023 8:18 AM

2023-07-31T08:18:22-04:00

1LT Private RallyPoint Member, this sounds like a pop quiz. Rehearsal. I know we make up colloquial names for everything, but sooner or later we all need to be speaking the same language.

Not an exhaustive list, there are different types of rehearsals:
confirmation brief: Soldier tells you what you just told them
backbrief: Soldier tells you what they are about to do.
combined arms rehearsal: "sand table", everyone tells you what they are going to do, sometimes they will show you on a ground map, projected map, or glass box. Also referred to as ROC drill.
support rehearsal: All the support elements tell you what they are going to do while the mission is going on.
battle drill: receptive exercise of frequent or critical tasks that form the building blocks of the mission (A&L, React to Contact, etc)
SOP rehearsal: repetitive exercise of core mission task (emplace, assault, flank, etc).

What it sounds like is they are going through a type of ROC (Rehearsal of Concept) drill. It can be as in-depth as walking through the task for each phase or action to as simple as "talking" through the tasks.

Response by MSG Gary Eckert made Jul 31 at 2023 8:58 AM

2023-07-31T08:58:18-04:00

It is a demonstration.