GAO: Top Training Initiative Needs More Reserve Input, Focus on New Threats

By Jason Sherman / August 11, 2006 at 5:00 AM
Congressional investigators are calling on the Defense Department to overhaul key elements of the U.S. military's marquee training initiative to better reflect reserve component training needs and to accredit training regimens for new mission areas like irregular warfare and combating weapons of mass destruction. The Government Accountability Office, in a new report, recommends Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld implement a number of management reforms to the Joint National Training Capability, a $1.6 billion effort overseen by U.S. Joint Forces Command that...

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