Motivation: An on-going department training program is essential to maintain skills, reinforce knowledge and to present new materials to the membership. Developing a complete, specific course ...

A fireground mentor once told me, “It’s OK to vary your plan, as long as you have one.” As a young fire officer, I understood the message: We can change ventilation tactics so long as we plan to vent.

In the fiscally-constrained environment facing the Army, planning and executing training, with limited time and resources, requires commanders use every tool available to focus their training efforts ...