DoD Must Go Beyond PT to Support Cognitive Strength

[rangerrebew]

DoD Must Go Beyond PT to Support Cognitive Strength
8/4/2021
By Irik Johnson


The Defense Department increasingly relies on emerging technologies like augmented and virtual reality, wearables and data science to optimize the training of warfighters.

For example, the Air Force recently enhanced its special warfare training program to incorporate wearables and mental training to improve special operators’ mental strength and maximize their performance. This holistic training approach — called human performance — can benefit every military branch by ensuring personnel are better equipped physically and mentally, while also reducing training costs.

Human performance training requires a data-driven methodology that is rooted in three core areas: a focus on cognitive performance; data analytics to track performance and help instructors customize trainings; and immersive technology that provides trainees a more comprehensive training experience.

https://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/articles/2021/8/4/dod-must-go-beyond-pt-to-support-cognitive-strength

[rangerrebew]

The key to education is teaching HOW TO THINK, not just what to think.  This is a concept foreign to the military but they had better change if they want to keep up with technology and how to use it.  And it isn't all their fault.  High Schools have given up teaching kids how to think and fallen for the trap of teaching by indoctrinated thinking.

[AARguy]

Cognitive Strength cannot be taught in a classroom any more than driving or swimming can be taught in a classroom. What is needed is a course combining key elements of SERE, Ranger and similar schools tempered with specific requirements from other leadership and individual training courses.