Research Pays Off for the Reserve Component: U.S. Arm Research Institute Products From 1985-1998

Research Pays Off for the Reserve Component: U.S. Arm Research Institute Products From 1985-1998
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Release: 1999
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This special report summarizes selected research and development (R & D) products produced between 1985 - 1998 by the U.S. Army Research Institute (ARI) for the Army's Reserve Component (RC) (i.e., National Guard and Reserve). The product summaries cover the areas of individual, crew, unit, and battle staff training, distance learning, personnel turbulence, what we know from deployments, and the associated payoff, all keyed to the specific RC operational readiness constraint(s) (e.g., training time, geographical dispersion, personnel turbulence) that each product was designed to address. The providing this information, we hope to reveal not only what ARI has done up until now, but also the scope of what it is capable of doing in the future, to support RC R & D product needs of the 21st Century.

Predicting Rifle and Pistol Marksmanship Performance with Laser Marksmanship Training System

Predicting Rifle and Pistol Marksmanship Performance with Laser Marksmanship Training System
Author: Monte D. Smith
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Total Pages: 28
Release: 2000
Genre: Laser beams
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"To develop an LMTS-based tool for predicting small arms, live-fire marksmanship qualification performance, Idaho Reserve Component (RC) soldiers fired for qualification on LMTS and on the live-fire range with either the M16A2 rifle (N =95) or M9 pistol (N =81). A statistically significant relation between LMTS and live-fire qualification scores was found and validated for both rifle (r = .55) and pistol (r = .47) and then used to develop weapon-specific tools for RC trainers to use in predicting the probability of individual soldier, first-run, live-fire, rifle and pistol qualification based on scores fired on LMTS. Use of these prediction tools will enable RC marksmanship trainers to schedule LMTS-based training more efficiently by targeting only those soldiers in need of remediation (i.e., those predicted to be unlikely live-fire qualifiers), as well as to identify when enough training has been provided (i.e., when the predicted likelihood of live-fire qualification is good). These tools also provide the RC unit commander with a set of LMTS-based, empirically derived live-fire performance standards to support (a) implementation of a competency-based rifle, as well as pistol, sustainment training program of instruction using LMTS, and (b) use of LMTS-based qualification firing in place of live-fire qualification firing when outdoor range facilities are not readily available."--DTIC.