About TRADOC

TRADOC command overview

Command leadership


Gen. Martin E. Dempsey	Lt. Gen. David P. Valcourt	Command Sgt. Maj. David M. Bruner
Commanding general	Deputy commanding general / chief of staff	Command sergeant major
Biography	Biography	Biography
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Command's mission

TRADOC develops the Army's Soldier and civilian leaders and designs, develops and integrates capabilities, concepts and doctrine to build a campaign-capable, expeditionary and versatile Army in support of joint warfighting commanders through Army Force Generation (ARFORGEN); provides support to the Army's Human Capital Core Enterprise.

Commanding general’s vision

Victory starts here! TRADOC is providing the right people with the right skills, right capabilities, at the right time and right place for today and tomorrow.

To shape both today's Army and the future combat force, TRADOC:

Recruits and trains Soldiers, the centerpiece of the Army: TRADOC builds the Army on a solid foundation of quality people by transforming recruits into Soldiers – Soldiers who are physically tough, mentally adaptive and live the Warrior Ethos. Soldiers are our ultimate asymmetric advantage and cannot be matched by our adversaries, current or future.
Develops adaptive leaders: TRADOC trains leaders for certainty and educates them for uncertainty. Leader development produces innovative, flexible, culturally astute professionals expert in the art and science of the profession of arms and able to quickly adapt to the wide-ranging conditions of full-spectrum operations.
Designs today’s Army modular force and the future combat force: TRADOC identifies and integrates comprehensive solutions for the Army modular force, both today and tomorrow.
Maximizes institutional learning and adaptation: As an integral component of an innovative generating force, TRADOC shapes and links it seamlessly to the operating force to maximize Army learning and adaptation.

TRADOC priorities

1. Leader Development
a. Training
b. Education
c. Experience

2. Initial Military Training

3. Support to ARFORGEN

4. Future Capabilities Integration

5. Army Training Concept

6. Human Capital Core Enterprise

TRADOC scope and scale

TRADOC has more than 27,000 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, 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 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-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 II and III; 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)
(G-3/5/7 sites)
DCS, G-6 (command, control, communications and computers)
DCS, G-8 (resource management)

Personal and special staff

Major subordinate organizations

Combined Arms Support Command, Fort Lee, Va.
TRADOC Analysis Center, Fort Leavenworth, Kan.

Schools

TRADOC operates 32 centers and schools on 16 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 Knox, Ky.
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.
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.
Field Artillery 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 Mechanical Maintenance School, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md.
Ordnance Munitions and Electronics Maintenance School, Redstone Arsenal, Ala.
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 Eustis, Va.
Warrant Officer Career Center, Fort Rucker, Ala.

Centers of Excellence

TRADOC is transitioning to eight Centers of Excellence (CoEs) between FYs 2009 and 2011. Multi-branch CoEs will be:

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;
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; and
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.

Single-branch CoEs are:

Aviation Center School, Fort Rucker, Ala., has stood up as the Aviation CoE, remaining at Fort Rucker;
Intelligence Center/School, Fort Huachuca, Ariz., became the Intelligence CoE at Fort Huachuca;
Signal Center/School, Fort Gordon, Ga., became the Signal CoE at Fort Gordon; and
The U.S. Army Training Center at Fort Jackson, S.C. (name and location remains unchanged).

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.

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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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 five locations highlighted with green circles are where TRADOC conducts Army basic combat training. At Forts Benning, Ga.; Sill, Okla.; Knox, Ky.; 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.