The Mission Command Training Program (MCTP – formerly Battle Command Training Program) provides combined arms training, replicating Joint-Interagency-Intergovernmental-Multinational Operations in a relevant Operational Environment, worldwide. Training is conducted for Brigade Combat Teams, Divisions, Corps, ASCCs, JFLCCs and JTFs to create experiences enabling the Army’s Senior Commanders to develop current, relevant, campaign-capable, joint and expeditionary Mission Command instincts and skills.
MCTP supports mission command training for multifunctional support brigades, certain functional brigades, theater sustainment commands and expeditionary sustainment commands.
In 2010, MCTP received the Army Superior Unit Award, one of the Army’s highest unit awards, for "outstanding meritorious performance during peacetime of a difficult and challenging mission under extraordinary circumstances."
Training today’s Army senior commanders while developing tomorrow’s.
Mission Command Training Program's Operations Group COE's Early Morning Battle
Story by Capt. Eileen Hernandez, MCTP Public Affairs Officer
FORT LEAVENWORTH, Kan. – If you were up early last Monday morning on Fort Leavenworth you might have seen an Army colonel leading an historic battle. As rays of sunlight emerged over the horizon, members of Mission Command Training Program’s Operations Group Contemporary Operating Environment, formed up, grabbed weapons and took on a ruthless enemy known as Mother Nature.
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