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Is composite risk management still the correct term, and what worksheet is used today?

No. The Army dropped composite risk management and returned to risk management with the publication of ATP 5-19. The deliberate risk assessment worksheet is DD Form 2977. DA Form 7566, the old composite risk management worksheet, is obsolete.

What are the five steps of risk management?

Identify the hazards, assess the hazards, develop controls and make risk decisions, implement controls, and supervise and evaluate. It is a continuous cycle applied to operations, training, and day-to-day activity.

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 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 are the risk levels used in a risk assessment?

Extremely high, high, moderate, and low. The level determines who has the authority to accept the residual risk, which is why the assessment goes to the right approval level before execution.

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 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.