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Headquarters Land Warfare Centre (HQ LWC) is located in Warminster (Waterloo Lines) and led by the
Director (DLW), Major General Christopher Barry CBE. Without oversimplifying his role, DLW works direct to Commander Field Army (CFA) as the Army’s ‘Training Officer’ with a responsibility to ‘deliver Collective Training and Trade Training and drive agile adaptation of the Field Army, to enable success on current and future operations.’ Within the HQ (at the time of writing) the Physical Development (PD) team is only ‘two-deep’ and comprises Maj (MAA) Jason Murdoch (SO2 PD) and myself, however the SO2s are about to conduct a hand over and we’ll see Maj (MAA) Barry Sweatman take on the reigns from 1 August this year.
Having the largest cohort of RAPTC WO2s across the Corps, the LWC community comprises 17 QMSIs who work in 8 separate 1* organisations. Accepting the workforce pressures and demands being placed upon all of us, it’s been fantastic that we’ve managed to come together for our annual Briefing Seminars. Saturated with success, these events allow us to share good / best practices; focus on the LWC assurance trends; reaffirm the Corps’ vision, standards, and ethos; as well as providing an exploratory platform
The Land Training System
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to optimise policy and process. Whilst we consistently share knowledge, skills, and experience, the seminars have been a fantastic opportunity to integrate and bond fellow RAPTCIs in a social setting. During the most recent (May 24), we had the privilege of having the SMAA in attendance, who passed on some updates, Corps insights and afforded the QMSIs with a valued Q&A session.
One of the most significant and recent changes within the LWC (and the Army) has been the introduction of the Land Training System (LTS). Fundamentally, this is a new way of training the Army that sets the standard against a pacing threat and is enabled by effective and assured technical solutions. As shown in the diagram, it is broken into 3 parts:
The QMSI Team