Results for FM 7-0

Training

FM 7-0 is the unit training management manual: how leaders plan, prepare, execute, and assess training and how they report proficiency. The June 2021 edition re-established the training management cycle as the framework and supersedes the October 2016 version. It is the working companion to ADP 7-0.

Training Aids

Training management from the eight-step model through the training meeting, plus ranges, risk management, and after action reviews.

Army Training and Leader Development

AR 350-1 is the policy behind Army training: mandatory training requirements, institutional training, and leader development programs. The 1 June 2025 major revision superseded the 10 December 2017 edition, folding in years of Army directives and trimming the common mandatory training list. If you build a training calendar, this is the regulation that constrains it.

Training

ADP 7-0 is the Army's doctrine for training Soldiers and units. It carries the principles of training that leaders apply when they build and defend a training plan. The April 2024 edition supersedes the July 2019 version; FM 7-0 carries the procedures.

After action reviews

The four steps of an AAR, the four questions it answers, and the difference between a formal and an informal review.

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.

Mission-essential tasks and proficiency ratings

What a METL is, what a training and evaluation outline gives you, and how the T, P, and U ratings work when the commander reports proficiency.

Reading an Army publication number

What ADP, FM, ATP, TC, AR, DA PAM, and STP each mean, how the numbers are built, and why the difference between doctrine and policy decides how you cite it.

Running a range

How a range gets from a request to a closeout, the appointments and controls that have to be in place, and where the actual requirements come from.

Sergeant's Time Training

Protected time for NCOs to train their Soldiers on individual and small-unit tasks, and what separates real Sergeant's Time from a block of unaccounted hours.

The company training meeting

The weekly meeting where planned training becomes resourced, executable training, who attends, and what actually gets decided.

The eight-step training model

The eight steps that take a training event from a line on a calendar to a trained task, and the two steps units skip that guarantee the event fails.

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.

What are the steps of the eight-step training model?

Plan the training, train and certify the trainers, reconnoiter the site, issue the order, rehearse, execute, evaluate the training, and retrain. Skipping steps is how training events fail before they start.

What are the training proficiency ratings under objective task evaluation?

T for trained, T-minus, P for practiced, P-minus, and U for untrained. The commander assesses the unit against the training and evaluation outline for the task rather than against a subjective impression.

What is a METL and what is a T and EO?

A METL is a mission-essential task list, the tasks a unit must be able to perform to accomplish what it was designed to do. A training and evaluation outline, or T and EO, is the standard for a specific task: the conditions, the standard, and the performance measures a leader uses to evaluate it. The T and EO is the starting point for any honest proficiency assessment.

What is an after action review, and what are its four steps?

An AAR is a structured professional discussion of an event that lets the participants work out for themselves what happened and how to improve. The four steps are plan, prepare, conduct, and follow up. The follow-up is the part units skip and the part that produces the improvement.

What is the company training meeting and why does it matter?

It is the weekly meeting where the company commander plans and prepares near-term training. It is held on the same day and time each week as part of the unit battle rhythm and attended by the leaders who run the training: the executive officer, first sergeant, platoon leaders, platoon sergeants, and supporting section leaders. It is the center of gravity for unit training management because it is where planned training becomes resourced, executable training.

What is the difference between a formal and an informal after action review?

A formal AAR is planned and resourced in advance with a scheduled time, a site, training aids, and an outside facilitator or observer. An informal AAR is conducted on the spot by the leader on the ground with whatever is at hand, right after the action, and is the kind Soldiers see most often.

What is the T-week concept?

T-week is a backward-planning framework that ties the weeks before and after a training event to the actions required to prepare for and follow up on it. The week of execution is week T. Week T-6 is six weeks out; week T+1 is the week after. Companies use it in the training meeting so preparation happens on a schedule instead of at the last minute.

What questions does an after action review answer?

What was supposed to happen, what actually happened, why it happened that way, and what to sustain or improve next time. The leader guides the discussion and the participants do the talking.