-Source-The Washington Times- Fighting will now take precedence over dealing with transitioning transgender troops drug abuse and other issues as the Army seeks to overhaul its training regimen to hone its soldiers battlefield skills. In a series of servicewide memorandums approved by Army Secretary Mark Esper and Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley and obtained by The Washington Times service leaders are making optional previously mandatory training on issues such as transgender transition and drug abuse. The move Army leaders argue is designed to relieve stress on the overburdened troop training regimen and refocus on soldiers ability to fight in combat. The Armys regulations and policies that deal with training were pretty settled and there were not a lot of detractors to it. … It was all the other training requirements that we levied on ourselves or we had levied from other places" that led to the increasingly cumbersome approach to combat readiness said Col. John OGrady chief of the Armys collective training division. Those mandated training requirements served as barriers to maximizing time … to build readiness and lethality" within combat units he said in an interview. Aside from ending mandatory training programs on transgender troops and drug abuse courses on media awareness and human trafficking have been eliminated from the mandatory curriculum the service memorandums state. Army officials are codifying the new marching orders into servicewide training guidelines and doctrine which will bring the Army more in line with the Pentagons new National Defense Strategy Col. OGrady said.
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