Posted on Apr 4, 2025
Army slashes mandatory training requirements with regulation update
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Very nice, but I'm sure some folks will find other mindless things to now occupy those open spaces.
Army slashes mandatory training requirements with regulation update
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Posted 9 mo ago
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I remember telling my boss during a QTB that as a commander my main job was to "manage failure".
After the obligatory "What the hell are you talking about Cudworth!?" response, I told him that there were so many mandatory requirements, that it cut into actually accomplishing my mission. So, my job was to determine which of those mandatory requirements were really 'mandatory' and which I was going to take a hit on for not getting done (i.e., manage the ones I was going to fail at).
After the obligatory "What the hell are you talking about Cudworth!?" response, I told him that there were so many mandatory requirements, that it cut into actually accomplishing my mission. So, my job was to determine which of those mandatory requirements were really 'mandatory' and which I was going to take a hit on for not getting done (i.e., manage the ones I was going to fail at).
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MSG (Join to see)
My personal favorite is getting bombarded with taskers that are deemed priority. Each one of them. I'd turn around and ask "If they're all a priority, then none are a priority. Correct?" The look on their faces, you'd think I broke their brain AND shot their dog at the same time.
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SGM Jeff Mccloud
MSG (Join to see) - We used to have a really good G1 SGM who used to sit the G1 down every time they came up with a new priority and ask "which current suspense dates do you now want to extend out to accommodate your new top priority?"
I had some really good G3s and never had to have the same discussion.
I had some really good G3s and never had to have the same discussion.
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I had a Commander who was fond the business management guru Jim Collins - among his books was "Good to Great" on which we did a whole senior-leaders weekend. One of the tenets of going from good to great was focusing on the core missions by having a "Stop Doing" list. After that weekend I asked more than once (though not publicly) about "What's on our Stop Doing list here, sir?" and got that same look you are talking about, COL Randall Cudworth!!
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First of all, this should not leave any "open spaces" but rather allow time for the long list of requirements every year that take more than a year to accomplish.
The Army has been cutting (allowing commanders to accept risk on) most of these individual training requirements for years.
This is just the first time they made it official in 350-1.
The Army has been cutting (allowing commanders to accept risk on) most of these individual training requirements for years.
This is just the first time they made it official in 350-1.
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