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Command leadership

Gen. Martin E. Dempsey Lt. Gen. David P. Valcourt Command Sgt. Maj. David M. Bruner

Commanding general

Deputy commanding general / chief of staff

Command sergeant major
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Command's mission

TRADOC develops the Army's Soldier and civilian leaders and designs, develops and integrates capabilities, concepts and doctrine to build a campaign-capable expeditionary Army in support of joint warfighting commanders through Army Force Generation (ARFORGEN).

Commanding general’s vision

Victory starts here! TRADOC is providing the right people with the right skills, right capabilities, at the right time and right place for today and tomorrow.

To shape both today's Army and the future combat force, TRADOC:

  • Recruits and trains Soldiers, the centerpiece of the Army: TRADOC builds the Army on a solid foundation of quality people by transforming recruits into Soldiers – Soldiers who are physically tough, mentally adaptive and live the Warrior Ethos. Soldiers are our ultimate asymmetric advantage and cannot be matched by our adversaries, current or future.
  • Develops adaptive leaders: TRADOC trains leaders for certainty and educates them for uncertainty. Leader development produces innovative, flexible, culturally astute professionals expert in the art and science of the profession of arms and able to quickly adapt to the wide-ranging conditions of full-spectrum operations.
  • Designs today’s Army modular force and the future combat force: TRADOC identifies and integrates comprehensive solutions for the Army modular force, both today and tomorrow.
  • Maximizes institutional learning and adaptation: As an integral component of an innovative generating force, TRADOC shapes and links it seamlessly to the operating force to maximize Army learning and adaptation.

TRADOC priorities

  • Leader development (initial military training; professional military education; experience)
  • Support ARFORGEN
  • Future capabilities

All priorities enabled by institutional adaptation and strategic engagement.

TRADOC scope and scale

TRADOC operates 32 schools and centers at 16 Army installations. TRADOC schools conduct 2,700-plus courses, of which 300-plus are language courses. The command's training requirements have increased from a 520,000-plus student load in FY08 to a 560,000-plus student load in FY09.

Deputy commanding generals

DCG-Combined Arms/CAC commanding general

TRADOC’s DCG-Combined Arms is dual-hatted as the commanding general of the Combined Arms Center, Fort Leavenworth, Kan.. CAC’s CG serves as the TRADOC proponent for leader development; professional military education (officer, warrant officer, noncommissioned officer and civilian); battle command and command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (more commonly known as C4ISR); collective training; Army doctrine; and dissemination of observations/lessons learned.

The CAC commander is responsible for providing guidance, leadership and command supervision to the branch centers/schools to ensure that training remains safe, relevant, realistic and executed to Army standards. CAC’s CG is also responsible for the Army’s Combat Training Center Program.

DCG-Futures/ARCIC director/TRADOC G-9

The DCG-Futures is triple-hatted as ARCIC’s director and as TRADOC’s G-9. ARCIC develops and integrates into a Joint warfighting environment, from concept to capability, all aspects of the future force. This DCG and his team develop and integrate Joint and Army concepts, architectures and doctrine, organization, training, materiel, leadership, personnel and facilities (DOTMLPF) capabilities; validate science and technology priorities; and lead future-force experimentation. The DCG-Futures synchronizes and integrates Army capabilities with Joint, interagency and multinational capabilities.

DCG-IMT

The DCG-IMT is the TRADOC executive responsible for the Army’s officer, warrant officer and enlisted training process through completion of IMT. The DCG-IMT is also responsible for providing IMT policy and execution guidance to TRADOC commanders and staff outside the IMT chain of command.

IMT encompasses reception-battalion operations that support IMT; basic combat training; advanced individual training; one-station unit training; Reserve Officer Training Corps; Officer Candidate School; Warrant Officer Candidate School; Basic Officer Leader Course Phases II and III; and recruiter, drill sergeant and other IMT cadre training.

As TRADOC transitions, a DCG-IMT will be appointed for the IMT enterprise. Currently, CG of Army Accessions Command, formerly a subordinate command of TRADOC and now a direct reporting unit to HQDA, serves as TRADOC's DCG-IMT.

DCG-Army Reserve

The DCG-Army Reserve assists TRADOC's CG in executing missions that require integration of Reserve Soldiers.

DCG-National Guard

The DCG-ARNG assists TRADOC's CG in DOTMLPF matters impacting the training and readiness of Army National Guard Soldiers and champions TRADOC programs and future initiatives through existing senior-level forums.

Deputy chiefs of staff

Personal and special staff

Major subordinate organizations

Schools

TRADOC operates 32 centers and schools on 16 installations.

Centers of excellence

TRADOC is transitioning to eight Centers of Excellence (CoEs) between FYs 2009 and 2011. Multi-branch CoEs will be:

  • Field Artillery Center/School, Fort Sill, Okla., and Air Defense Artillery Center/School, Fort Bliss, Texas, will combine for the Fires CoE at Fort Sill;
  • Armor Center/School, Fort Knox, Ky., and Infantry Center/School, Fort Benning, Ga., will combine for the Maneuver CoE at Fort Benning;
  • Maneuver Support Center, Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. – which consists of the Chemical, Engineer and Military Police Schools – has completed transition to the Maneuver Support CoE, remaining at Fort Leonard Wood; and
  • Ordnance School, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md.; OMEMS, Redstone Arsenal, Ala.; Soldier Support Institute (Adjutant General and Finance Schools), Fort Jackson, S.C..; Transportation School, Fort Eustis, Va.; and Quartermaster School, Fort Lee, Va.; will combine into the Sustainment CoE at Fort Lee.

Single-branch CoEs are:

  • Aviation Center School, Fort Rucker, Ala., has stood up as the Aviation CoE, remaining at Fort Rucker;
  • Intelligence Center/School, Fort Huachuca, Ariz., became the Intelligence CoE at Fort Huachuca;
  • Signal Center/School, Fort Gordon, Ga., became the Signal CoE at Fort Gordon; and
  • The U.S. Army Training Center at Fort Jackson, S.C., became the Basic Combat Training CoE at Fort Jackson.

A CoE is defined as a designated training center based on TRADOC core functions that improves combined-arms solutions for Joint operations; fosters DOTMLPF integration; accelerates the development process; and unites all aspects of institutional training to develop Soldiers, leaders and civilians who embody Army values.

Staff and major subordinate organization relationships

The TRADOC headquarters staff analyzes, assesses, provides staff-management oversight and recommends for decision all activities affecting policy, command guidance, developmental processes and implementation/execution processes to support the command in meeting its mission. The staff facilitates the coordination and dissemination of strategic operational concepts and plans, doctrine and training to the Defense Department, Department of the Army, U.S. Joint Forces Command, “sister” services, Congress and external agencies and organizations. Also, the staff supports TRADOC subordinate organizations in executing command initiatives in recruiting, training, educating, designing, testing and evaluating the force.

TRADOC contacts

See the “Contact Us” page for more information.

TRADOC jobs

Military personnel will find TRADOC to be an assignment of choice. The TRADOC commanding general seeks combat veterans to leverage their combat experience. If interested in a job at TRADOC, check with your assignments officer.

Civilian employees will be able to contribute in building the Army’s foundation, as victory starts in TRADOC. TRADOC is supported by Fort Monroe Civilian Personnel Advisory Center, which has on-line information about anticipated vacancies at http://www.monroe.army.mil/cpac/. Also see the Army’s Civilian Personnel On-line at http://acpol.army.mil/employment/index.htm.

Organization charts

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