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The Army National Guard (ARNG) Sustainment Training Center (STC) at Camp Dodge, Iowa, serves as the ARNG's primary training center for sustainment units and provides collective technical and tactical training and evaluations. Field maintenance, multifunctional logistics, and medical training are focused at the section, platoon, and company levels.
The STC, together with Mission Training Complex-Dodge (MTC- Dodge), provides relevant and realistic training that increases individual and collective proficiencies from the tactical level to echelons above brigade. This multiechelon training environment incorporates downtrace organizations, including distribution companies, field maintenance companies, medical companies, and forward support companies (FSCs).
STC Capabilities
The STC campus is on approximately 4 acres and includes 48 heated maintenance bays with heavy overhead lift capability and more than 100,000 square feet of technical maintenance and multifunctional logistics training space. STC subject matter experts (SMEs) evaluate Soldiers according to standard training and evaluation outlines and applicable combined arms training strategies found on the Army Training Network website.
The STC is the leader in logistics collective training, and its staff takes pride in offering relevant and realistic training in a scalable operational environment. STC instructors possess technical and tactical experience that helps them to train and mentor logisticians for future operations.
STC trainers use the latest information from the Center for Army Lessons Learned. The center follows the "train as you fight" principle to establish a solid foundation for Soldiers.
All Soldiers at the STC train with current theater end items and components of the end items and operate within the Global Combat Support System-Army (GCSS-Army) environment. Training at the STC uses the latest generation of theaterspecific equipment, current doctrine, and logistics enabling systems.
The center also includes a live supply support activity that supports current Army force structure.
Training Weeks
The training focus during week one begins with the unit's arrival and the completion of reception, staging, onward movement, and integration requirements.
Units receive GCSS-Army training, conduct property accountability and inventories, learn deliberate risk management procedures, and complete equipment refresher training as necessary. Soldiers conduct their technical training in a tactical environment to ensure their skills are geared toward the unified land operations concept.
At the end of the first week, unit leaders receive an operation order for the culminating training event for week...