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combat vehicle crewmen equipment, AN/PEQ-15, vehicle in-
formation and communications systems in M1151 M26
shotgun, M320 40-millimeter grenade launcher, integrated
laser white light pointer, Joint Capabilities Release/Blue
Force Tracker mission command system) simultaneously
took place in the 519th Military Police Battalion in FY 15.
The short-duration, iterative green cycle exposures allowed
military police platoons to feld new and upgraded equip-
ment on a piecemeal basis and integrate the equipment into
their formations ahead of the major battalion level train-
ing events during the same period. The battalion executed
the frst deliberate mounted gunnery in August 2014, with
the newly felded Common Remotely Operated Weapon Sta-
tion as the primary focus. The battalion used the M1117
armored security vehicle military police team certifca-
tions conducted earlier and used the gunnery training as
the capstone. In preparation for the frst mounted fre and
maneuver CALFEX scheduled for June 2015, the battalion
conducted another mounted gunnery training in February
2015. The training established a major collective effort as a
semiannual requirement, as a mechanism to maintain gun-
nery qualifcations, to enforce military police team certif-
cation maintenance, and to reinforce military police team
shoot tasks.
In June 2015, the 519th conducted the mounted fre
and maneuver CALFEX, rotating military police platoons
through a daytime and nighttime squad-mounted, live-fre
exercise and a platoon daytime CALFEX as the culminating
training event. Due to the nature of sustaining police re-
quirements, the battalion orchestrated and administrative-
ly operated the ranges and area of operations to allow com-
pany commanders and platoon leaders to focus on planning,
preparation, and execution tasks and to evaluate training.
The battalion incorporated the newly trained and upgraded
Raven system and a rudimentary call for fre to simulate
the combined arms support that military police platoon
leaders could experience in a theater of operations. But the
focus was on squad fre and maneuver of sections and pla-
toon fre and maneuver of squads. The gunneries and the
CALFEX were only possible due to the baseline core
competencies achieved through platoons conducting
multiple green cycle iterations.
Conclusion
With the specter of future military police battal-
ion and combat support company Army structure re-
ductions ever present in our branch, high-intensity,
short-duration green cycles provide a manageable and
effective methodology to continue to build and sustain
combat readiness at the military police squad and pla-
toon levels. Leaders will continue to face training dis-
tractors such as lack of time or funds, taskings, and
land availability. The next generation of company com-
manders must understand how to plan effective train-
ing around such constraints. Using a 21-day green cycle
construct will enable platoon, company, and feld grade
offcers to build readiness and collective task profciency
across battalions and companies and will help bring us
in line with the vision behind the Military Police Strategic
Plan 2025.
ADP 3-0, Unifed Land Operations, 10 October 2011.
ADP 5-0, Special Operations, 31 August 2012.
ADP 7-0, Training Units and Developing Leaders, 23 August
2012.
ADRP 3-0, Unifed Land Operations, 16 May 2012.
ADRP 5-0, Special Operations, 17 May 2012.
ADRP 7-0, Training Units and Developing Leaders,
23 August 2012.
AR 350-1, ,
19 August 2014.
Military Police Strategic Plan 2025,