We spend a lot of time conducting training on SHARP, Suicide Prevention, Resilience, etc. Do you think we are spending too much time on them?

Sir, I believe we overall have cookie cutter classes and need to rely and teach instructors how to make the material theirs so its fresh and new and more meaningful for the audience.

"Opportunity Cost"

It's not that we are spending too much time on any one of these subjects, it is that we only have so much time, and therefore ANY time we spend must be at the expense of something else.

There are 250 training days in a year (365/7*5 - 10 federal holidays). Each Service Member accrues 30 days of Leave (22 usable if you account for weekend loss). So call it 225~ days.

There was a great article mentioned a few weeks ago about (Congressional) Mandated Training. It exceeded the number of total available training days.

So when we add in "common sense" subjects which are important, it takes their toll on operational requirements like the Range, Swim Qual, Pro-Mask, etc. Would we rather sit in a Death by PPT, or do Military Themed Training that "feels" useful to our day to day work?

Sir,
When resiliency training requires staying late to get it completed. This is very counter productive. The comment, I can't commit suicide, they are killing me by PowerPoint has been spoken at one of these training sessions.

The key to a successful program is fresh, relevant material and an instructor that cares about the subject.

The check the box mentality that comes with these redundant classes ruins any chance of the training doing any good.