Modernization of the military posture of friendly foreign governments has placed uncontemplated, challenging demands on training program developers. To minimize, total cost, foreign governments use existing equipment designs where feasible. By using existing designs, the logistics support package has already been developed; however, this package was tailored to meet the needs of United States military personnel. All items of the logistics package are satisfactory except - training and technical publications. Problems in these two areas become especially difficult when English is used as a second language by the procuring country. Since their background and experiences are different, a training approach that is different than the one used in the existing package is required. Training developers must modify existing curriculum to allow for these differences, to remove culturally offensive situations, and to tailor the training to learning patterns of the intended student. Once the training program accomplishes its objective, problems with the technical documentation disappear.
Foreign Military Training Program Development
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