By Lindsey Dunstedter
Special to GUIDON
From remote sensing systems to classroom customization, MDoT offers numerous initiatives to ensure the proper training of Soldiers both at home and overseas.
The Maneuver Support Center of Excellence Directorate of Training, or MDoT, is one of three major directorates that make up the Maneuver Support Center’s central staff. They have a team of military, civilians and contractors that serve as a training, development and support hub for the MSCoE.
MDoT has two major departments, the Training and Doctrine Development Department, often referred to as TD3, and the Department of Career Studies or DCS.
MDoT was developed in 2006 out of the need to create specific training, development, and academic support services to the three service schools located at Fort Leonard Wood. The directorate creates specific media products and e-learning initiatives that serve as enablers for the schools. If there is a need for multimedia, new doctrinal publications, or training or leader development initiatives that do not directly relate to the schools specific curriculum, MDoT generates the requirements.
Special to GUIDON
From remote sensing systems to classroom customization, MDoT offers numerous initiatives to ensure the proper training of Soldiers both at home and overseas.
The Maneuver Support Center of Excellence Directorate of Training, or MDoT, is one of three major directorates that make up the Maneuver Support Center’s central staff. They have a team of military, civilians and contractors that serve as a training, development and support hub for the MSCoE.
MDoT has two major departments, the Training and Doctrine Development Department, often referred to as TD3, and the Department of Career Studies or DCS.
MDoT was developed in 2006 out of the need to create specific training, development, and academic support services to the three service schools located at Fort Leonard Wood. The directorate creates specific media products and e-learning initiatives that serve as enablers for the schools. If there is a need for multimedia, new doctrinal publications, or training or leader development initiatives that do not directly relate to the schools specific curriculum, MDoT generates the requirements.
One of the training enablers, the Department of Career Studies, provides a constructive training simulation environment. The exercises support both the officer and NCO courses and are also available for units.
The simulations provide the Soldiers with realistic scenarios and help them practice military decision-making. The groundbreaking for Fort Leonard Wood’s new two-story simulation center will begin in early 2010.
Fort Leonard Wood is also the soon-to-be home of the Base Expeditionary Targeting and Surveillance Systems-Combined Program, or BETSS-C. The program will show Soldiers how to install and operate a surveillance system that uses remote sensing in Afghanistan, Iraq, or anywhere else that has a base, with 360-degree day and night coverage.
Another initiative MDoT has this year is transitioning the Professional Military Education courses they support from print to e-books.
Reggie Snodgrass, Training Resource Management Branch chief, said there are “36 to 45 books per student per class and they have to walk out with a duffle bag full. The e-books help lighten their load.” Fort Leonard Wood is the first to use e-books on a large scale Army-wide, and the fort is sharing lessons learned with other installations.
MDoT has a cultural and language advisor. Dr. Tseggai Isaac is responsible for making suggestions to the command and the schools leadership on integrating cultural elements into the existing courses.
“There is the opinion that cultural advising is lacking in the U.S. Armed Forces, and this opinion is initiated by the Armed Forces themselves. They hire people like me to fill the gap” Isaac said. The advising prepares the Soldiers for the differences in local customs and also how to prevent and resolve potential conflict.
One of MDoT’s biggest training enablers is the post-wide program to leverage technology into classrooms. Most of the MCA projects scheduled for completion through fiscal year 2015 have academic space such as state-of-the-art classrooms and labs. The directorate has a program to modernize existing classrooms, and in 2010 year they will change out the entire instructional presentation system in 74 older classrooms.
“We try and create an environment of academic support that enables our service schools, so that they can provide trained and qualified Soldiers and leaders to the field and to the Army,” said John Arata, Department of Career Studies chief.
(Editor’s note: Dunstedter is a Missouri S&T intern writing for the MSCoE Commander’s Initiative Group.)
The simulations provide the Soldiers with realistic scenarios and help them practice military decision-making. The groundbreaking for Fort Leonard Wood’s new two-story simulation center will begin in early 2010.
Fort Leonard Wood is also the soon-to-be home of the Base Expeditionary Targeting and Surveillance Systems-Combined Program, or BETSS-C. The program will show Soldiers how to install and operate a surveillance system that uses remote sensing in Afghanistan, Iraq, or anywhere else that has a base, with 360-degree day and night coverage.
Another initiative MDoT has this year is transitioning the Professional Military Education courses they support from print to e-books.
Reggie Snodgrass, Training Resource Management Branch chief, said there are “36 to 45 books per student per class and they have to walk out with a duffle bag full. The e-books help lighten their load.” Fort Leonard Wood is the first to use e-books on a large scale Army-wide, and the fort is sharing lessons learned with other installations.
MDoT has a cultural and language advisor. Dr. Tseggai Isaac is responsible for making suggestions to the command and the schools leadership on integrating cultural elements into the existing courses.
“There is the opinion that cultural advising is lacking in the U.S. Armed Forces, and this opinion is initiated by the Armed Forces themselves. They hire people like me to fill the gap” Isaac said. The advising prepares the Soldiers for the differences in local customs and also how to prevent and resolve potential conflict.
One of MDoT’s biggest training enablers is the post-wide program to leverage technology into classrooms. Most of the MCA projects scheduled for completion through fiscal year 2015 have academic space such as state-of-the-art classrooms and labs. The directorate has a program to modernize existing classrooms, and in 2010 year they will change out the entire instructional presentation system in 74 older classrooms.
“We try and create an environment of academic support that enables our service schools, so that they can provide trained and qualified Soldiers and leaders to the field and to the Army,” said John Arata, Department of Career Studies chief.
(Editor’s note: Dunstedter is a Missouri S&T intern writing for the MSCoE Commander’s Initiative Group.)
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