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TRADOC Futures Center marks first year
Training and Doctrine Command celebrated its one-year anniversary for the Army’s Futures Center at Fort Monroe Oct. 1. “The Futures Center is to design, develop and integrate the future force for our Army,” said Lt. Gen. John M. Curran, director, Futures Center, and TRADOC’s deputy commanding general for futures. “That encompasses working across the full domain of doctrine, organization, training, materiel, leader development, personnel and facilities.”

Advanced Noncommissioned Officer Course changes to provide better training
The Advanced Noncommissioned Officers Course kicked off a new program of instruction Sept. 13 with Class 01-04. The new POI cut the first phase of training and reduced the length of the course to a six-week, one-phase course, said 1st Sgt. Michael Hibbs, ANCOC branch chief.

Fort Benning's Kelley Hill Soldiers prepare to rotate to Iraq
The Kelley Hill troops slated to return to Iraq early next year spent 10 days in the field making sure they’re ready. “In 90 days, plus or minus, you’ll be on the ground doing this for real,” said Lt. Col. Roger Cloutier to his Soldiers. “This is our last collective training opportunity.”

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“What we learned in (Operation) Iraqi Freedom was that the pace, the optempo and the condition of the current force had to change. We had to address force-management practices to deal with a force that would remain committed for the next several years. We have 33 brigades in the (Active Component) Army –two of them are in Korea and we can’t use them, and two of them are undergoing transformation at any one time to Stryker. If we’re going to maintain 12 brigades in Iraq and one brigade in Afghanistan, you can do the math: that size a force is going to break over time if we don’t do something radically different. We’ve made some decisions that will change the Army probably with the same impact as changes we made coming out of Viet Nam. We’ve decided to increase the Army by 30,000; the secretary of defense brought that to the president and got that approved on a temporary basis at least through 2007. Now we’re going to use that 30,000 to grow an additional 10 combat brigades in the Army, a 30-percent increase in the size of the force —that’s significant —from 33 to 43 brigades in the active Army.”–Gen. Kevin P. Byrnes, Training and Doctrine Command commanding general

 
     
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