Three U.S. Armor units participated in the 1985 Canadian Army Trophy (CAT) competition. This competition provided a unique opportunity to evaluate tank gunnery training strategies and crew selection practices. The results of analysis comparing performance in training with performance in the competition and the results of interviews with unit cadre are presented. Findings indicated that measures of accuracy did not. Crews commanded by higher mental category (Armed Forces Qualification Test) tank commanders did not perform better than crews commanded by lower mental category commanders. The authors suggest that while CAT offers an excellent opportunity to study advanced gunnery training, some methods may be unique to the CAT environment and not generalizable to the normal TO&E Armor unit training structure.
Review of U.S. Armor Crew and Platoon Training in Preparation for the 1985 Canadian Army Trophy (CAT) Competition
1987
76 pages
Report
No indication
English
Personnel Management, Labor Relations & Manpower , Job Training & Career Development , Military Sciences , Army training , Gunnery trainers , Tank crews , Performance(Human) , Canada , Acceptance tests , Accuracy , Armor , Combat vehicles , Crews , Gunnery , Interviewing , Military commanders , Personnel selection , Platoon level organizations , Strategy , Tanks(Combat vehicles) , Test and evaluation , Training , ASVAD(Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery) , Tank commanders , Tank gunnery , UCOFT(Unit Conduct Of Fire Trainers)