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Building and briefing a training schedule
What has to be on a training schedule, who approves it, and what it means once it is published and locked.
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The company training meeting
The weekly meeting where planned training becomes resourced, executable training, who attends, and what actually gets decided.
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The military decision-making process
Seven steps that turn a mission from higher into an approved plan and an order, plus what each step is supposed to produce.
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The operations process
Plan, prepare, execute, and assess. Four activities that overlap continuously, plus the six things a commander personally does throughout all of them.
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The training management cycle and the unit training plan
How a unit gets from a mission-essential task list to a training schedule, the three planning horizons, and what a unit training plan actually commits the commander to.
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Troop leading procedures and how they differ from MDMP
The eight troop leading procedures, which of them run in parallel rather than in order, and why a company or platoon uses them instead of MDMP.
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WARNORD, OPORD, and FRAGORD
Three kinds of combat order, what each is for, and why the warning order is the one that buys subordinates their planning time.