![]() Soldiers crawl under an obstacle course during a jungle operations training course near Schofield Barracks, Hawaii. The training circular, published by the Headquarters of the Department of the Army this month, outlines a variety of techniques and requirements through which soldiers can learn Advanced Situational Awareness training methods of optimizing human performance “through building the skills necessary to develop agile, resilient, adaptive, and innovative Soldiers who thrive in conditions of uncertainty and chaos.” MCoE oversees the Army’s Infantry and Armor Schools, among other responsibilities, War Zone reported. While many will scoff at these ideas, the document cites numerous case studies of soldiers in the field in which a greater sense of situational awareness could have saved lives.įurthermore, the Army is already offering training courses in this new type of Advanced Situational Awareness (ASA) at Fort Benning in Georgia, which is home to the service’s Maneuver Center of Excellence (MCoE). ![]() ![]() Other sections of the circular describe how cultural anthropology, the study of world religions, and even Gestalt psychology, can be leveraged in Army training in order to make soldiers into what some might call “warrior monks” with near-preternatural deductive reasoning ability, War Zone reported. ![]()
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