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automatically appear in the next lower document,
but it will not change the base order itself. The user
can also add images and hyperlinks within the order
and annexes. In addition to the operation order, the
user can create a warning order to initiate the exercise
process or a fragmentary order to manipulate or drive
the exercise.
Data reuse. Data reuse is a major feature of the
TBR-EDT. It allows users from across the Army to
leverage previously generated exercises. Tailoring
the input from previous exercises conducted by
other Army users maximizes efficiency and greatly
reduces the time to design an exercise.
A brigade operations staff officer (S-3) in
Georgia can clone an S-3’s work in Hawaii, Texas,
or South Korea and then modify that work to suit
his or her own unit’s unique training objectives.
After cloning the exercise, the S-3 can search for
and reuse other individual exercise elements. These
may include storylines, events, operation orders,
role players with associated reports, or data tied to
the operational variables (political, military, economic, social, infrastructure, information, physical
environment, and time).

In another example, a unit may be deploying
to a location that has internally displaced persons.
That unit could search stored exercises from several
different theaters for events that contain internally displaced persons and then modify those events
for use in its own training exercise. The TBR-EDT
also allows units to search for types of operations
and operational environments similar to those they
are preparing for—such as stability operations in
Indonesia—so they can locate sample training objectives to help them develop objectives for their units.

Scheduled Updates to the TBR-EDT
Future versions of the TBR-EDT will allow users
to search through many years of applicable mission
command information system operational messages that generally support the events and storylines
within the exercise. When users find the appropriate
messages, they will be able to use the TBR-EDT’s
embedded tools to transform proper names, date-time
groups, and locations within the message data to fit
the specific training environment. Once transformed,
the message content is changed to replicate the new
training location, but the context of the original

OE Data
PMESII-PT Data

Training Brain Repository

Force Structure

TBR

Exercise Design Tool

EDT

WTSP
Unit METL
Storylines/ Events
Road to War
OPORDS

TBR
COEs

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