Techniques
This is skills training that occurs when there are inactive periods during scheduled training.
Opportunity Training (or Hip-Pocket Training)
This training involves real people operating simulated systems.
Virtual Training
This is an exercise to employ & test communications equipment and train CDRs, staff, communications personnel, & small-unit leaders on C3 procedures.
Communications Exercise (COMMEX)
This is an exercise to train tasks/procedures for deploying Soldiers & units from home station to potential areas of employment.
Deployment Exercise (DEPEX)
This is a leader & staff training exercise using maps & digital displays portraying tactical scenarios to perform integrating & control functions without deploying the unit.
Map Exercise (MAPEX)
This is scheduled training time set assign by unit CDRs for NCOs to train their Soldiers in specified tasks/drills.
Sergeant's Time Training
This training is executing in field conditions using tactical equipment, with real people operating real systems.
Live Training
This is a minimum notice exercise to test unit deployment capabilities for contingency operations.
Emergency Deployment Readiness Exercise (EDRE)
This exercise trains staffs to perform tasks essential to C2 planning, coordination, integration, synchronization, & control functions under simulated operating conditions.
Staff Exercise (STAFFEX)
This is a live-fire exercise that trains & evaluates a unit's ability to integrate direct & indirect fires.
Fire Coordination Exercise (FCX)
This is a collective action where Soldiers & leaders rapidly process info, make decisions, and execute without a deliberate decision-making process
Battle Drill
This training is conducted concurrently within two or more training environments.
Blended Training
This exercise trains/evaluates a unit's ability to coordinate & control more than one weapon system to deliver direct or indirect fires using full-caliber munitions.
Live-Fire Exercise (LFX)
This is a maneuver exercise that trains/evaluates a unit's ability to maneuver & integrate direct & indirect fires, using full-caliber ammunition in a combined arms environment.
Combined Arms Live-Fire Exercise (CALFEX)
This is a scenario-driven evaluation of a unit's training proficiency conducted by leaders outside the evaluated unit's chain of command.
External Evaluation (EXEVAL)
This is a collective action that the crew of a weapon (or piece of equipment) must perform to use the weapon (or equipment).
Crew Drill
This training combines the virtual & constructive environments, allowing interaction between live forces and simulated environments.
Integrated Training
This is a task-based simulated, tactical operation in a live-field environment against an actual or simulated opposed force.
Field Training Exercise (FTX)
This is a low-cost, low-overhead exercise conducted in the field on actual terrain, where units leaders & staff analyze unit actions, weapon emplacement, and operation planning.
Tactical Exercise Without Troops (TEWT)
This is a task-based, limited exercise designed to train a collective task or group of related tasks/drills.
Situational Training Exercise (STX)
This is company & below training designed to practice/observe/evaluate individual tasks, collective tasks, or battle drills
Lane Training
This training uses computer models & simulations to exercise command & staff functions, with real people interacting with simulated units operating simulated systems.
Constructive Training
This is a distributed, simulation-driven, multiechelon tactical CPX for Divisions & Corps, directed by HQDA every two years.
Warfighter Exercise (WFX)
This is a multiechelon exercise focused on tasks supporting communications, C2 systems, & staff battle task proficiency.
Command Post Exercise (CPX)
This is a command & staff-level CPX conducted as a culminating training event for deploying Divisions & Corps.
Mission Readiness Exercise (MRE)