About TRADOC

Command leadership


Gen. Robert W. Cone	Lt. Gen. John E. Sterling Jr.	Command Sgt. Maj. Daniel A. Dailey
Commanding general	Deputy commanding general	Command sergeant major
Biography	Biography	Biography
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Mission

Training and Doctrine Command develops, educates and trains Soldiers, civilians, and leaders; supports unit training; and designs, builds and integrates a versatile mix of capabilities, formations, and equipment to strengthen the U.S. Army as America’s Force of Decisive Action.

Commanding general's vision

Leading the Army’s transition into the future by shaping the Army of 2020, developing adaptive leaders and organizations, modernizing equipment, and revolutionizing training to strengthen the Nation’s adaptive land force for decisive action.

Commanding general's intent

Purpose: Strengthen America’s Force of Decisive Action and provide the Nation an adaptable Army for an uncertain future.

Key Tasks:

Develop agile and adaptive leaders who thrive in complex, uncertain, and changing environments (Leader Development)
Develop, evaluate, and integrate capabilities that create an adaptive, dominant land force for the Joint Force Commander (Capabilities Development, Integration, & Evaluation
Design innovative concepts for the force of the future, and develop doctrine that is effective and flexible enough to adapt to evolving conditions (Concepts & Doctrine)
Train and educate agile Soldiers, leaders, and versatile units adaptable to any operational environment through lifelong learning (Training & Education)

End State: The Army of 2020 possesses the best trained and educated Soldiers, civilians, and leaders, organized and equipped in a versatile mix of adaptable units capable of providing decisive action in any operation.

TRADOC scope and scale

TRADOC has more than 25,000 Soldiers and 11,000 civilians working daily to accomplish our mission. We have 32 schools, and we train more than 500,000 Soldiers a year. Our footprint spreads throughout the continental United States at 20 different locations, and we provide the senior commander on 13 of those installations.

Deputy commanding generals

DCG-Combined Arms/CAC commanding general

TRADOC’s DCG-Combined Arms is dual-hatted as the commanding general of the Combined Arms Center (CAC), Fort Leavenworth, Kan. CAC’s CG serves as the TRADOC proponent for leader development; professional military education (officer, warrant officer, noncommissioned officer and civilian); battle command and command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (more commonly known as C4ISR); collective training; Army doctrine; and dissemination of observations/lessons learned.

The CAC commander is responsible for providing guidance, leadership and command supervision to the branch centers/schools to ensure that training remains safe, relevant, realistic and executed to Army standards. CAC’s CG is also responsible for the Army’s Combat Training Center Program.

DCG-Futures/ARCIC director

The DCG-Futures is dual-hatted as the Army Capabilities Integration Center (ARCIC)’s director. ARCIC develops and integrates into a joint warfighting environment, from concept to capability, all aspects of the future force. This DCG and his team develop and integrate Joint and Army concepts, architectures and doctrine, organization, training, materiel, leadership, personnel and facilities (DOTMLPF) capabilities; validate science and technology priorities; and lead future-force experimentation. The DCG-Futures synchronizes and integrates Army capabilities with Joint, interagency and multinational capabilities.

DCG-IMT

The DCG-Initial Military Training (IMT) is the TRADOC executive responsible for the Army’s officer, warrant officer and enlisted training process through completion of IMT. The DCG-IMT is also responsible for providing IMT policy and execution guidance to TRADOC commanders and staff outside the IMT chain of command.

IMT encompasses reception-battalion operations that support IMT; basic combat training; advanced individual training; one-station unit training; Reserve Officer Training Corps; Officer Candidate School; Warrant Officer Candidate School; Basic Officer Leader Course Phases A and B; and recruiter, drill sergeant, and other IMT cadre training.

DCG-Army Reserve

The DCG-Army Reserve assists TRADOC's CG in executing missions that require integration of Reserve Soldiers.

DCG-National Guard

The DCG-ARNG assists TRADOC's CG in DOTMLPF matters impacting the training and readiness of Army National Guard Soldiers and champions TRADOC programs and future initiatives through existing senior-level forums.

Deputy chiefs of staff

DCS, G-1/4 (personnel and logistics)
DCS, G-2 (intelligence)
DCS, G-3/5/7 (operations, plans and training)
DCS, G-6 (command, control, communications and computers)
DCS, G-8 (resource management)

Personal and special staff

Schools

TRADOC operates 32 centers and schools on 15 installations.

Adjutant General School, Fort Jackson, S.C.
Airborne School, Fort Benning, Ga.
Air Defense Artillery Center/School, Fort Bliss, Texas
Armor Center/School, Fort Benning, Ga.
Army Logistics Management College, Fort Lee, Va.
Army Management Staff College, Fort Belvoir, Va.
Army War College, Carlisle Barracks, Pa.
Aviation Center/School, Fort Rucker, Ala.
Aviation Logistics School, Fort Eustis, Va.
Basic Training (Maneuver Support Center), Fort Knox, Ky.
Chaplain School, Fort Jackson, S.C.
Chemical School, Maneuver Support Center, Fort Leonard Wood, Mo.
Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kan.
Drill Sergeant School, Fort Jackson, S.C.
Engineer School, Maneuver Support Center, Fort Leonard Wood, Mo.
Fires Center/School, Fort Sill, Okla.
Finance School, Fort Jackson, S.C.
Infantry Center/School, Fort Benning, Ga.
Intelligence Center/School, Fort Huachuca, Ariz.
Military Police School, Maneuver Support Center, Fort Leonard Wood, Mo.
Officer Candidate School, Fort Benning, Ga.
Ordnance School, Fort Lee, Va.
Physical Fitness School, Fort Jackson, S.C.
Quartermaster Center/School, Fort Lee, Va.
Ranger School, Fort Benning, Ga.
Recruiting and Retention School, Fort Jackson, S.C.
School of Advanced Military Studies, Fort Leavenworth, Kan.
School of Information Technology, Signal Center, Fort Gordon, Ga.
Sergeants Major Academy, Fort Bliss, Texas
Signal Center/School, Fort Gordon, Ga.
Transportation Center/School, Fort Lee, Va.
University of Foreign Military and Cultural Studies (UFMCS), Fort Leavenworth, Kan.
Warrant Officer Career Center, Fort Rucker, Ala.
Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, Fort Benning, Ga.

Centers of Excellence

TRADOC is transitioning to six warfighting-functions Centers of Excellence (CoEs):

Field Artillery Center/School, Fort Sill, Okla., and Air Defense Artillery Center/School, formerly at Fort Bliss, Texas, combined for the Fires CoE at Fort Sill.
Armor Center/School, Fort Knox, Ky., and Infantry Center/School, Fort Benning, Ga., are combining for the Maneuver CoE at Fort Benning and will have a close coordinating relationship with the Aviation CoE at Fort Rucker, Ala.
Maneuver Support Center, Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. – which consists of the Chemical, Engineer and Military Police Schools – has completed transition to the Maneuver Support CoE, remaining at Fort Leonard Wood;
Ordnance School, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md.; OMEMS, Redstone Arsenal, Ala.; Soldier Support Institute (Adjutant General and Finance Schools), Fort Jackson, S.C..; Transportation School, Fort Eustis, Va.; and Quartermaster School, Fort Lee, Va.; will combine into the Sustainment CoE at Fort Lee.
The new Mission Command CoE will be established as part of CAC at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., and will encompass the Intelligence CoE at Fort Huachuca, Ariz., and the Signal CoE at Fort Gordon, Ga. Intel retains its identity, however, as the sixth warfighting function.

Another CoE -- however, not a warfighting-function CoE -- is the IMT CoE at Fort Monroe.

A CoE is defined as a designated command or organization within an assigned area of expertise that delivers current warfighting requirements; identifies future capabilities; integrates assigned doctrine, organization, training, materiel, leadership, personnel and facilities (DOTMLPF) dimensions; and presents resource-informed, outcomes-based recommendations to the TRADOC commanding general.

Other major subordinate organizations

Combined Arms Support Comman d, Fort Lee, Va.
TRADOC Analysis Center, Fort Leavenworth, Kan.
The Center for the Army Profession and Ethic, The United States Military Academy at West Point, N.Y.

Staff and major subordinate organization relationships

The TRADOC headquarters staff analyzes, assesses, provides staff-management oversight and recommends for decision all activities affecting policy, command guidance, developmental processes and implementation/execution processes to support the command in meeting its mission. The staff facilitates the coordination and dissemination of strategic operational concepts and plans, doctrine and training to the Defense Department, Department of the Army, U.S. Joint Forces Command, “sister” services, Congress and external agencies and organizations. Also, the staff supports TRADOC subordinate organizations in executing command initiatives in recruiting, training, educating, designing, testing and evaluating the force.

TRADOC contacts

TRADOC Webmaster, monr.webmaster@us.army.mil
TRADOC Public Affairs, monr-tradocpao@conus.army.mil

See the “Contact Us” page for more information.

TRADOC jobs

Military personnel will find TRADOC to be an assignment of choice. The TRADOC commanding general seeks combat veterans to leverage their combat experience. If interested in a job at TRADOC, check with your assignments officer.

Civilian employees will be able to contribute in building the Army’s foundation, as victory starts in TRADOC. TRADOC is supported by Fort Monroe Civilian Personnel Advisory Center, which has on-line information about anticipated vacancies at http://www.monroe.army.mil/cpac/. Also see the Army’s Civilian Personnel On-line at http://acpol.army.mil/employment/index.htm.

Organization charts

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TRADOC is composed of three major subordinate organizations: CAC, IMT and ARCIC. A fourth command, Army Accessions Command (AAC), reports directly to Headquarters Department of the Army but closely coordinates its activities with TRADOC. CAC, ARCIC and AAC are led by lieutenant generals while IMT is led by a major general.

The ongoing reorganization of TRADOC's schools into centers of excellence (CoEs) is based on the command's six warfighting functions. These CoEs are highlighted in green on the chart. The Mission Command CoE under CAC is new. The reorganization will foster consistency and standardization across the command while enabling TRADOC to begin integrating combined-arms solutions at a lower level.

The CoE reorganization process began in 2005 and will be complete in 2011.

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The three installations shown in black are locations where TRADOC's footprint will be reduced as a result of the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) decisions, which are scheduled to be fully implemented by 2011.

The four locations highlighted with green circles are where TRADOC conducts Army basic combat training. At Forts Benning, Ga.; Sill, Okla.; Jackson, SC.; and Leonard Wood, Mo.; we conduct one-station unit training, which combines basic combat training with advanced individual training.

All but two of the training sites -- Forts Knox and Benning -- conduct some form of gender-integrated initial-entry training.