This episode outlines the Army’s nine principles of training, which serve as a foundational guide for leaders in developing effective and challenging unit instruction. These principles emphasize that commanders are the primary trainers responsible for unit proficiency, while Noncommissioned Officers (NCOs) train individuals and small teams and advise commanders. Key training concepts include using multiechelon techniques and training as a combined arms team to maximize efficiency and realism. Additionally, the principles direct units to train to standard using appropriate doctrine and to train as you fight by creating realistic, combat-like environments. Finally, the text stresses the importance of leaders working to sustain levels of training proficiency over time by mitigating skill decay, employing the principle to train to maintain personnel and equipment readiness, and emphasizing the need to fight to train by protecting approved training time from distractions.

This episode outlines the senior leader and commander responsibilities for ensuring effective unit training. It emphasizes that direct involvement from senior leaders is critical for training to be well-planned, resourced, and effective, often requiring them to issue annual training guidance (ATG) that clarifies objectives and required proficiencies. The document explains a sequential, top-down process for training, where commanders train one echelon down while evaluating two echelons down, ensuring subordinate leaders understand their roles. Furthermore, the source stresses the inextricable link between training and leader development, asserting that training events are the most effective means for senior leaders to teach, coach, mentor, and guide their subordinates toward competency and success. This process is reinforced by a standards-based, top-down, bottom-up approach that coordinates efforts and resources across command echelons.

This episode outlines the U.S. Army's training doctrine and its importance in fulfilling strategic roles amid global challenges. It details the training fundamentals that leaders must employ, emphasizing the need to prioritize tasks given limitations in time and resources. The document separates training into individual training, which focuses on Soldier-level skills and proficiencies guided by Noncommissioned Officers (NCOs), and collective training, which focuses on teamwork and unit cohesion, rated as Trained, Practiced, or Untrained. Ultimately, unit proficiency is measured by mastering Mission-Essential Tasks (METs), weapons qualification, and collective live-fire task proficiency, all while integrating emerging training technologies and adapting to continuous transformation to maintain relevance.