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Through 2024 and 2025 the implemen- tation of the Land Training System will change the individual career courses and collective training progression that we have known throughout our careers. Exercise CYCLONE will sit at the heart of this new competency based training model, providing units protected time and resources to conduct mandated live fire and Battle Craft Syllabus field-based exercises over 10 weeks of annual training.
To prioritise CYCLONE events for 325 Field Army subunit building blocks annually, significant changes will be required to our wider training system. The ongoing ‘TRADEWIND’ review of all individual career courses will see the tactical phases of training, as well as technical aspects better delivered in the field, delivered during Exercise CYCLONE, shortening courses and deliv- ering only what an individual requires in their first 3 years of service. RAC units should therefore expect to be joined by students from capstone MCC Troop
Leader and Crew Commander courses during their CYCLONE training, where they can better learn from the experience of being integrated within a unit going about its annual training event. But you will not only see RAC students within the Battle Group. New Fire Support Team Commanders, Engineer recce and REME personnel will join CYCLONE events for an enhanced training experience. CYCLONE is about the power of combi- nations, deriving the very best training for as many people as possible out of a single, protected and resourced event. Upskilling teams together and to a known cadence will collectively enhance competency and hence safety. Critically, the integration of students will enable the dreaded ‘Support to Exercising Troops’ tasks to be cut to the absolute minimum – all to prioritise the Battle Group’s training, owned by the Commanding Officer and enabled and supported by the personnel of the new Combined Arms Manoeuvre Training and Advisory Team (CAMTAT) from the Combat Manoeuvre Centre. Those
units who have an operational validation requirement will continue to progress to a STORM training event, but the content of this training this will also morph signifi- cantly to build upon the foundation of success at CYCLONE - high performing and safe subunits, more ready (competent), more of the time (current).
The Light Dragoons contingent within the Combat Manoeuvre Centre continue to spread Northern charm and MCC expertise across the fledgling Army Battle School of the future. Come and join us at the heart of this generational change in our future training model, be that at our Bovington Schools making our personnel ‘CYCLONE ready’ or in the CAMTAT, enabling training events globally to ensure that our subunits and their capabilities are ready to take their place in the order of battle. Or if your name is Captain Alford, just head off to Australia to sell them the idea - it’s just a sunnier Training Wing.
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The Regimental Journal of The Light Dragoons
The Combat Manoeuvre Centre
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