Joint Targeting School
The Joint Targeting School (JTS) provides DoD with formal joint targeting training for mid-career operations and intelligence personnel destined for combatant commands (COCOM), the Joint Staff, defense agencies and service-designated targeting positions.
JTS conducts five resident courses and 15 to 20 mobile training team courses each year. Courses are provided at the request of COCOMs, defense agencies and the services. They include:
Staff Course
- Three-week resident course conducted quarterly
- Attendees include operations, plans and intelligence personnel
- The only DoD venue for formal training about Joint Publication 3-60: Joint Targeting
Weaponeering Applications Course
- Two-week resident course conducted quarterly
- Provides training on weapons employment and weaponeering methodologies
- Provides extensive hands-on training with Joint Munitions Effectiveness Manuals Weaponeering System
Battle Damage Assessment (BDA) Course
- One-week resident course conducted quarterly
- Provides procedures, techniques and methodology used in the joint BDA process
Consolidated Course
- Five-week resident course offered two to three times each year
- A combination of the staff, weaponeering applications and BDA courses
Collateral Damage Estimation (CDE) Course
- One-week resident course offered quarterly
- Teaches the methodology used in joint collateral damage estimation process, defined in Combined Joint Chiefs of Staff Instruction 3160.01
- The only approved CDE course in DoD
JTS, created in 1996, is a subordinate activity of U.S. Joint Forces Command Joint Training Directorate/Joint Warfighting Center and is located at Dam Neck, Va.
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