Posted on Jan 6, 2015
Your thoughts on the Army Study of changing Military Training in order to reduce PTSD.
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Squad Overmatch Study elements took the Army’s current “warrior skills” training and integrated it with “resilience and mental skills” training and “situational awareness skills” training to see how that might facilitate recognition, perception, and adaptation to combat stressors for Soldiers by simulating their effects under realistic combat conditions.
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Study looks at reducing post-traumatic stress by changing military training
The Interservice / Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference (I/ITSEC) promotes cooperation among the Armed Services, Industry, Academia and various Government agencies in pursuit of improved training and education programs, identification of common training issues and development of mu
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The mantra for military training is to “train as you fight.” Warfighters don’t just fight with warrior skills. They are put in harm’s way in places and environments that offer equal challenges to their situational awareness and mental resilience skills. Shouldn’t that be how they train as well?
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CH (CPT) Heather Davis
The above post was taken from Scott Gourley is a former U.S. Army officer with defense industry experience spanning unmanned air vehicle, tracked combat vehicle, and individual lethality programs. He is the author of more than 2,000 articles covering topics across all military services, with air, land and sea story projects that have taken him from air-to-air refueling operations, to a tandem jump with the U.S. Army’s Golden Knights, to an underway visit aboard the submarine USS Ohio following her conversion to SSGN configuration. He currently holds masthead listings as correspondent, contributing editor, or North American editor for nearly one dozen international defense publications.
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