What USJFCOM Does

What is USJFCOM?

Force Provider

Joint Trainer

Joint Capability Development

Joint Enabling Capabilities

Joint Concept Development and Experimentation

Reserve & Command Support

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Joint Training Directorate

Recent Joint Training News

New JKO course improves knowledge base A new course designed in cooperation between the Joint Irregular Warfare Center and Joint Knowledge Online allows warfighters, civilians and contractors to learn about the nature of counterinsurgency. • Comment on this article at USJFCOMLive

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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