Motor Transport Operator Training: An Approach to Preparing Training Managers and Instructors to Design, Conduct, and Evaluate Performance Oriented Training

This report describes an R and D effort to train managers and trainers of the Support Command of an Infantry Division in how to design, implement, and evaluate a performance-oriented training program. The effort was conducted within the Transportation Company of the Supply and Transportation Battalion, 7th Infantry Division, Fort Ord, California. Researchers, company officers, and NCOs worked together to develop a mission oriented training program for MOS 64C, Motor Transport Operator. The work was carried on within the constraints of the unit's primary mission of providing logistical support to other newly activated units in the Division. The fundamental concepts set forth in this effort will permit the subsequent validation of tasks, skill levels, and performance tests for MOS 64C in an infantry division and provide a prototype for skill development of other MOSs in a Division Support Command. The products of the R and D effort are a tactical mission oriented task list for the motor transport operator, stratified by skill level and type of vehicle, a draft performance test to measure the basic skill level of motor transport operators on the 2.5 and 5 ton cargo trucks in the performance of a tactical mission, and a field course simulating the conditions of a tactical situation in an Infantry Division's Transportation Company.