(a) Acts as a conduit between higher headquarters,
the regional commander, and ICO in matters relating to policy or
doctrine.
(b) Review policy to ensure current mission
objectives are met.
(c) Assist with Mission Essential Task List (METL)
Development.
1. METL Development Process. Battle-focused
training programs are based on wartime requirements. Military
organizations cannot achieve and sustain proficiency on every
possible training task. Therefore, commanders must selectively
identify the tasks that are essential to accomplishing the
organization's wartime mission.
2.
Inputs to METL Development
a. There are three primary inputs to METL
development:
(1) War Plans. The most critical inputs
to METL development are the organization's wartime operations
and contingency plans. The missions and related information
provided in these plans are key to determining essential
training tasks.
(2) External Directives. External
directives are additional sources of training tasks that relate
to an organization's wartime mission. In some cases, these
directives identify component tasks which make up the wartime
mission. In others, they specify additional tasks that relate to
the wartime mission (for example, mobilization plans). Some
examples are:
(a) Mission training plans (MTP)
(b) Mobilization plans
(c) Installation wartime transition
(d) Force integration plans
(3) Commander's Analysis. Commanders
analyze the applicable tasks contained in external directives
and select for training only those tasks essential to accomplish
their organization's wartime mission. This selection process
reduces the number of tasks the organization must train. The
compilation of tasks critical for wartime mission accomplishment
is the organization's METL. To provide battle focus on the most
important wartime requirements, the Commander identifies
specified and implied mission essential tasks from the larger
number of possible training tasks contained in appropriate
external directives. This process will concentrate the
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