In 1997, the US Air Force s Air Combat Command (ACC) embarked on a revolutionary path for operational readiness training of its combat crews, Distributed Mission Training (DMT). In March 2002, the Department of Defense embarked on a training transformation. This paper describes the relationships between the training transformation efforts and DMT. DMT is not the complete solution to training transformation but can offer two important contributions: a synthetic environment composed of live virtual and constructive components with wide area connectivity; and a framework for describing the readiness training skills that link individual and team skills to joint mission tasks. The potential contribution of DMT, however, is not limited to creating the technical infrastructure. Past and current efforts on the soft problems of creating operational training concepts and integrating them into training policies are perhaps even more important to the DoD training transformation.