The Joint Readiness Training Center is pleased to present the seventh episode to air on ‘The Crucible - The JRTC Experience.’ Hosted by the Commander of Ops Group (COG), COL Matthew Hardman. Today’s guest is the senior mentor at the Leader Training Program at the JRTC, BG(R) Jon Lehr. Coach Lehr was previously the JRTC COG from 2008 to 2010 and his last posting on active duty was as the commander of Joint Task Force North from 2013 to 2015. During his numerous times as part of the JRTC Team, he has seen the Army transition from air-land battle to counter-insurgency operations during mission readiness exercises to full-spectrum operations to unified land operations and now to large scale combat operations across multiple domains with decisive action.

He has been with the Leader Training Program for the last five years. The Leaders Training Program at the JRTC is a ten-day planning conference providing commanders and staff an opportunity to hone their military decision-making process skills and systems. The program is facilitated by retired, senior military planning coaches giving units best practices and lessons learned from previous iterations.

In this episode they discuss the various long-term trends at echelon within a brigade combat team and some recommendations to rectify some of the deficiencies.

Part of S01 “The Leader’s Laboratory” series.

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