https://www.duffelblog.com/2019/07/cyber-training-will-not-take-place/
By @Veishnoriets
Duffel Blog
July 17, 2019
FORT MEADE, Md. -- The Army's most elite cyber operations unit has
requested a blanket exemption from conducting mandatory online training,
according to several sources familiar with the matter.
The 708th Cyber Brigade, colocated with U.S. Cyber Command at Fort Meade,
is tasked with integrating and conducting cyberspace operations that
maintain the Army's freedom of action in the global information
environment. Its soldiers are elite cyber warriors, with skills comparable
to the world’s top hackers.
"If I try to make junior cyber soldiers do online training, they will just
write a script that clicks through it for them and Googles the answers to
all the tests," Command Sgt. Maj. Brian Krog told reporters. "Soldiers get
zero development value out of that. Eventually, you will get a a
noncommissioned officer who has never completed his structured
self-development courses and doesn’t know how to lead," said Krog,
referring to the mandatory online classes soldiers must complete before
they can be promoted.
In addition to fighting adversaries in the cyber domain, the Army
increasingly relies on cyber tools to prepare its soldiers for war.
Although the most important training, such as sexual assault prevention
and equal opportunity awareness, is still primarily conducted "where you
can reach out and touch someone," secondary, warfighting-focused is
conducted online. This includes antiterrorism operations, infantry combat,
combined arms operations, and survival, escape, resistance and evasion in
case soldiers are captured by the enemy -- known as SERE. Online
leadership training is also mandatory for promotion to most enlisted
grades.
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