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Training
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To
properly prepare troops bound for service in the U.S. CENTCOM
area of operations to deal with the varied cultures, associated
cultural sensitivities, and culturally-based conflicts, ALS
has dramatically improved the realism of cultural training
during scenario-based training exercises. Our programs have
contributed to training successes at Fort Polk, Louisiana;
Fort Bliss, Texas; Fort Leavenworth, Kansas; Fort Drum, New
York; Camp Lejeune, North Carolina; Fort Campbell, Kentucky;
Fort Hood, Texas; Fort Stewart, Georgia; Grafenwoehr, Germany;
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ALS
provides a full range of cultural training resources, including:
Civilians-on-the-Battlefield
Role Players
ALS
creates exercise-specific Role Player Instructions for each
training exercise that provide detailed written guidance to
role players regarding dates, times, locations, uniforms,
special or minimum equipment, and/or language requirements
for each event. ALS is prepared to provide the necessary dossiers,
adjacent unit orders, mission graphics, scripts and other
documents to create the basis for a character’s authenticity
and training value to enhance the realism of the training. |
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ALS Media Training prepares U.S. troops
to deal with both American and foreign media |
ALS
also has the ability to provide authentic costumes and uniforms.
Our fully-trained role players can be equipped and prepared to act
in roles which may include, but are not limited to, the following
groups:
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Members of the four major threat groups operating in the U.S.
CENTCOM AO:
- Former
Regime Loyalists
- Transnational
Terrorist Groups
- Extremists
- Criminals
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Members of the new Iraqi Security Forces:
- Iraqi
Police Service (IPS)
- Facility
Protection Service (FPS)
- Iraqi
Civil Defense Corps (ICDC)
- New
Iraqi Army (NIA)
- Iraqi
National Guard (ING)
- Various
civilians potentially encountered on the battlefield:
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Local governance authorities (NAC/DAC)
- Leaders
and members of local tribes
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Leaders and members of religious groups
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Refugees and displaced persons oppressed by the former regime
- Friendly
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- Hostile
media
- Non
Governmental Organizations (NGOs)/Humanitarian Relief Workers
- Petty
criminals, terrorists, tribal and religious leaders, refugees,
informants, farmers and herders, taxi drivers, trustees, etc.
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Opposing
Forces (OPFOR) Role Playing
ALS
training for OPFOR role players:
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Emphasizes techniques of command and control of small unit insurgent
operations to accurately portray the conditions in the areas of
conflict;
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Addresses the ambiguities existent with the U.S. CENTCOM AO (i.e.,
how to differentiate between a civilian and an insurgent;
- Appropriate
and legitimate actions they may take as role players to effectively
simulate the operational environment.
The
use of ALS’s skilled OPFOR role players during training simulations
trains soldiers and troop leaders to develop unit structures, exercise
command and control, identify potential threats, and appropriately
react to these threats by including cultural considerations, associated
behavioral variables, and the potential impact of their decisions
on battle outcomes in the decision-making process. ALS OPFOR representations
accurately reflect the impact of participant actions and behavior
towards potential threats, including distinguishing BLUFOR, OPFOR,
and GREYFOR. At the higher levels of command, the leaders will see
how threats develop and learn techniques to counter them.
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Cultural
Awareness Training
ALS
utilizes a team of skilled and savvy linguists and subject matter
experts (SME) to perform cultural training. Each has more than two
years of experience supporting scenario-based training at a wide
array of U.S. military installations. Their proficiency ensures
ALS’s capability to rapidly understand exercise-unique instructions
and adapt to the conditions of the training requirement.
Our cultural awareness training instruction focuses on the following
areas:
Using the interpreter as a source of cultural awareness and cultural
adaptation. This includes assessing the potential impact of the
command’s objectives on the intended audience and the use
of culturally sensitive phrasing when presenting those objectives.
- How
to brief the interpreter on the command’s message to ensure
his/her comprehension.
- Preserving
the intent of the command message through cultural interpretation
- Avoiding
Iraqi cultural taboos so as to prevent unnecessary and distracting
conflicts.
- Body
language and hand movements specific to the Iraqi culture.
- Background
knowledge on Iraq culture to increase the effectiveness of engagements
with local leadership and populations.
Methods
to enhance successful communications with the intended local audience
(e.g., if the command message entails rejection of a local leader’s
request, the commander should understand that rejection is taken
as a personal insult, and that negative responses should be diplomatically
phrased so as to eliminate rejective language).
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Engagement
(Negotiation) Training
Originally
termed Bilateral Negotiations, the term for this interactive
training activity was changed to Engagement Cell to reflect
its deeper objective: to train linguists to establish productive,
respectful relationships with local governmental, religious
and civic leaders they can expect to encounter in-theater.
The objective of the training is to develop interpersonal
communication skills to enhance linguists’ probabilities
for success in cross-cultural engagements. |
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ALS provides extensive table-top rehearsals
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The
Middle Eastern environment is a locale of nuance and subtlety, where
the direct, in-your-face approach rarely accomplishes the objective.
Engagement Cell training provides military leaders the opportunity
to:
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Interact with cultural experts in role-play scenarios based on
actual events that occurred in the Iraqi theater;
- Learn
to effectively employ translators in interpersonal communications;
- Apply
their knowledge and awareness of cultural differences to maintain
communication effectiveness; and
- Receive
critiques from Observer/Controllers (OC) and role players (RP)
to aid in identifying individual strengths and weaknesses in interpersonal
communication and cultural awareness.
ALS also addresses the collection of intelligence during engagements,
including techniques used to fulfill intelligence requirements through
discussion and indicators that may provide additional insight and
information. Topics include:
- Utilizing
a “hidden linguist” unbeknownst to the intended audience
to gain insight into the true motives of the other party;
- Methods
for befriending locals to gain more information;
- The
use of incentives to gain allies in the local populace;
- How
to determine loyalty among the local populace to ensure validity
of the information obtained;
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Developing probing techniques that will not offend Arabs (i.e.,
obliquely phrasing follow-up questions to convey curiosity rather
than as blunt, direct requests for specific information; and
- Validating
information received during interviews.
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Leadership
Training
ALS
is a highly qualified team of experienced professionals in
the areas of research, assessment, competency modeling, learning
methods, instructional design, digital training, web-based
distance learning, interactive courseware and future technologies.
Our team offers expertise on military training and leadership
development for U.S. military leaders of all branches, especially
U.S. Army courses delivered to leaders at all rank levels.
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ALS builds and manages training sites that
replicate the regions of deployment |
The
ALS team is well suited to provide leadership assessment and training.
As innovators in leadership program development and implementation,
our team employs a Project Management Approach to all its assignments
that employs cutting-edge information and communication technologies.
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Logistics
Training
ALS
has provided the U.S. Department of Defense and numerous multi-national
defense ministries a wide range of logistical and war-gaming training
support. In each instance—as for all our projects—we
have provided consistently high-quality training support that unfailingly
meets or exceeds expectations.
The
ALS approach to every assignment begins with completely understanding
the task and developing the best approach to the problem. Using
our analytical expertise, we then devise and implement effective
solutions our customers can easily implement in a cost-effective
and timely manner.
The
nature of war-gaming yields results in process re-engineering, strategic
and policy planning, and financial management analysis directly
related to:
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an improvement effort;
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a performance measurement;
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a process improvement;
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an organizational design; or
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development of specific management and leadership skills.
The
ALS/CLS team has extensive current war-gaming experience and is
an acknowledged expert in the field.
Information
Technology (IT) is another area where the ALS/CLS team provides
a higher level of expertise and service than its competitors. ALS/CLS
IT personnel combine cutting-edge IT skills with a big-picture perspective
that yield IT performance results unparalleled in the industry.
The
ALS/CLS team stands ready to provide the full range of management
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