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Subject(s)

• Occupational training, Military—United States [Browse]

Related name

• United States. Army [Browse]
• Orvis, Bruce R. [Browse]

Series

R (Rand Corporation) [More in this series]

Summary note

As part of a broad effort to reduce defense expenditures, the Army is exploring a number of new approaches to training individual soldiers. Prominent among these approaches is "field-based crosstraining (FBCT)," which involves combining two or more occupational specialties and shifting initial skill training from Army schools to on-the-job training in field units. This report describes a method for analyzing the features, advantages, and disadvantages of field-based crosstraining programs in the Army. Focusing on the specific case of helicopter maintenance, the report analyzes data from field units and recommends alternative field-based crosstraining strategies for the Army. An assessment of the Army's Apprentice Mechanic Initiative (AMI) for helicopter maintenance is included in the analysis.

Notes

"Prepared for the United States Army."

Tech. report no.

R-4242-A

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