Delivery systems for maintenance training for the United States Army for the 21st century

Abstract

The thesis paper on Delivery Systems for Training for the U.S. Army looked at various areas of delivery systems from the characteristics of the traditional classroom, web-based training, self-paced delivery methods, computer-based instruction (CBI), and video conferencing, which is often called Distance Education. It addressed the future use of delivery systems in Army Training. The Army has standards of training set by the Ordnance Center and School for Maintenance Training. The Army is in the process of updating the new training methods of maintenance training that will be implemented within the next year in the U.S. Army. The new Army Training System (TATS) courseware will enable all Maintenance Training Facilities to prepare our students and soldiers for the 21st century for maintaining the U.S. Army’s equipment. The Army School System (TASS) is a composite school system comprised of the Active Component (AC), Army Reserve National Guard (ARNG) and United States Army Reserve (USAR) institutional training systems. TASS, through the Army’s training proponents, provides standard training courses to America’s Army, focusing on three main points of effort—standards, efficiencies, and resources. The Army Training System (TATS) courseware is designed to train the same Military Occupational Specialty (MOS), Area Of Concentration (AOC), skill level or Additional Skill Identifier (ASI), Language Identifier Code (LIC), Skill Qualification Identifier (SQI), and Skill Identifier (SI) within the Army. The course ensures standardization by training all critical tasks to task performance standard. It may be trained at different sites and may involve use of different media/methods to train the various phases/modules/lessons. The courseware is a requirements document that provides a general description of The Army Training System course content, duration of instruction, and methods of instruction and media. It also lists critical tasks taught and resources required to conduct peacetime and mobilization training (United States Army Training and Doctrine Command, 26 May 2000).