About | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline
LOG IN
LOG IN

NSIAD-84-51 1 (1984-03-02)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabnhc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: -?I NATIONAL SECURITY AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS OIVISION B-214047 The Honorable Joseph P. Addabbo Chairman, Subcommittee on Defense Committee on Appropriations House of Representatives Dear Mr. Chairman: Subject: Impact of the Army's National Training Center on Improving Individual Soldier and Unit Abilities (GAO/NSIAD-84-51) This report, presenting the results of our survey of the Army's National Training Center (NTC), responds to your May 10, 1983, request and later discussions with your office. We also surveyed training at selected Army units before their NTC exercises and upon their return from the NTC. The NTC, established in 1981, gives individual soldiers and units the opportunity to train in an environment which closely parallels actual warfare. For the most part, the NTC exercises are far more realistic and demanding than home station training. Further, the NTC, through its various monitoring systems, pro- vides evaluations which point out units' strengths and weak- nesses. The training realism, intensiveness, and evaluation offered at the NTC supplement the training accomplished by units at their home installations. By the end of fiscal year 1983, 59 percent of the heavy infantry and armor battalions based in the continental United States had completed training at the NTC. This involved an estimated 45,000 soldiers. Investment costs at the NTC amounted to about $262 million through fiscal year 1983. The Army estimates total investment costs will exceed $425 million through fiscal year 1989. Operating costs in fiscal year 1983 totaled about $149 million. In the long term, training at the NTC should benefit Army units as more officers, trainers, and soldiers repeat NTC training. However, some problems, if not corrected, could diminish potential NTC benefits. While the Army has initiated (967122) 123605 UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON. D.C. 20548 ~MARCH 2, 1984 RELEASED

What Is HeinOnline?

HeinOnline is a subscription-based resource containing thousands of academic and legal journals from inception; complete coverage of government documents such as U.S. Statutes at Large, U.S. Code, Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, U.S. Reports, and much more. Documents are image-based, fully searchable PDFs with the authority of print combined with the accessibility of a user-friendly and powerful database. For more information, request a quote or trial for your organization below.



Contact us for annual subscription options:

Contact Us

Already a HeinOnline Subscriber?

Log In

profiles profiles most