REQUIREMENTS FOR COLLECTIVE TRAINING
Collective training shall serve to achieve standards of unit proficiency required to accomplish wartime missions.
We are subject to such constraints as limits on space for training, all collective training shall be conducted under conditions and rates of activity closely approximating those at the TechComm base of operations.
When constraints limit the use of realistic training conditions, then simulation and other products of training technology shall be used as applicable to enhance realism.
Collective training, to the degree feasible, shall include electronic warfare activity; nuclear, biological, and chemical defense activity; and the periodic use of opposing forces trained in the tactics of potential adversaries.
All collective training exercises shall emphasize realistic performance of the functions of individual personnel in the exercising units. Support units shall be integrated into exercises for realistic training in their wartime supporting roles.


NUCLEAR, BIOLOGICAL, and CHEMICAL TRAINING
All personnel assigned TechComm squads must be trained in Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Defense  in order to survive and continue their mission in an NBC environment, which is all around us people.

 Individual proficiency standards are defined as survival and basic operating standards.  Survival standards are those that the individual must master in order to survive SkyNet, NBC attacks.  Basic operating standards are those that the individual, and collectively the unit, must be capable of performing to continue operations in an NBC environment.
In order to develop and maintain the ability to operate in an NBC environment, NBCD training should be an integral part of training and all units must be capable of accomplishing their assigned mission in a contaminated environment.

NIGHT TRAINING
While it is understood that all personnel and units of TechComm must be capable of performing their assigned mission in “every climate and place,” current doctrine emphasizes the requirement to perform assigned missions at night and during periods of limited visibility.  Basic skills are significantly more difficult when visibility is limited.  To ensure units are capable of accomplishing their mission at night as well as during the day, they must train under the more difficult limited visibility conditions.

APPLICATION OF SIMULATION
Simulators and other training devices for weapon systems and equipment shall be used when they are capable of effectively and economically supplementing training on the actual equipment.  Particular emphasis shall be placed on simulators that provide training that might be limited by safety considerations or constraints on training space, time, or other resources.  When deciding on simulation issues, the primary consideration shall be improving the quality of training and consequently the state of readiness.