I have been tasked with writing up a train up for a unit tasked with doing PRT in A-stan. Does anyone have leson plans or stuff that would help; rather than me re-inventing the wheel.
Sorry, can't help. But there should be some Civil Affairs and USAID folks with a non-sensitive syllabus laying around - ask Shardik, he might have access or know.
Sorry, don't have anything I can give you (unclass).
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Originally posted by SinePariDonster: Ken,
Sorry, can't help. But there should be some Civil Affairs and USAID folks with a non-sensitive syllabus laying around - ask Shardik, he might have access or know.
Center for Army Lessons Learned has some stuff on PRTs.
The CENTCOM training requirements for units deploying lists generic requirements for all units, based on mission requirements. It is secret, so you have to get SIPR access for it.
Thanks guys I have a buddy who is the S-2 for CA Bn looking into things for me. My initial thoughts were have them focus on small unit battle drills, small convoys ops, and commo with units in the AO. From what I saw of PRT's in A-stan they where often on their own and in many cases showed up in our AO with no warning or coordination. They would then promise the world and not show up again. Leaving us to answer all the questions, when we did not even know what was promised.
Hope you find what you need. PRT is a tougher mission than most realize, and requires alot of coordination and cooperation between local unit unit commanders who may or may not be willing to assist in providing resources, USAID teams, CA and SF detachments, NGOs (who are hard to work with sometimes but critical to mission success) and even PSYOPS units if they are available. One important thing in training up for these missions is getting the troops to think OUTSIDE the soldier's box mindset. Nation-building is not something that will come naturally to them, but it has get done, and paradoxically, it takes a soldier's discipline to make it work.
