The Army has just published a “major revision” to the draft version of AR 350-1 Army Training and Leader Development, which has been floating around in draft format for the past few months.
The new directive is half of the size it used to be!
This major revision, dated 1 June 2025—
• Removes “resilience” (common mandatory training) (table C–1).
• Incorporates guidance from Executive Order 14183 (throughout).
• Incorporates guidance from Army Directive 2018-02, Global Cultural Knowledge Network, 4 April 2018 (throughout).
• Incorporates guidance from Army Directive 2018-07-4, Prioritizing Efforts-Readiness and Lethality (Update 4), dated 26 April 2018 (throughout).
• Incorporates guidance from Army Directive 2018-07-05, Prioritizing Efforts-Readiness and Lethality (Update 5), dated 9 May 2018 (throughout).
• Incorporates guidance from Army Directive 2018-07-11, Prioritizing Efforts-Readiness and Lethality (Update 11), dated 26 June 2018 (throughout).
• Incorporates guidance from Army Directive 2018-07-17, Prioritizing Efforts-Readiness and Lethality (Update 17), dated 28 November 2018 (throughout).
• Incorporates guidance from Army Directive 2018-07-18, Prioritizing Efforts-Readiness and Lethality (Update 18), dated 4 January 2019 (throughout).
• Incorporates guidance from Army Directive 2018-22, Retention Policy for Non-deployable Soldiers, dated 8 November 2022 (throughout).
• Incorporates and rescinds guidance from Army Directive 2019-31, Integration or Refresher Training for Prior Service Personnel, dated 3 October 2019 (throughout).
• Incorporates guidance from Army Directive 2021-08, Implementation and Sustainment of Army Medical Department Individual Critical Task Lists, dated 19 March 2021 (throughout).
• Incorporates guidance from Army Directive 2021-17, Lateral Appointment to Corporal and Eligibility for Basic Leaders Course, dated 21 May 2021 (throughout).
• Incorporates and rescinds guidance from Army Directive 2022-05, Army Combat Fitness Test, dated 23 March 2022 (throughout).
• Incorporates guidance from Army Directive 2023-11, Army Body Fat Assessment for the Army Body Composition, dated 9 June 2023 (throughout).
• Incorporates guidance from Army Directive 2025-02, Parenthood, Pregnancy, and Postpartum, dated 24 February 2025 (throughout).
• Incorporates guidance from Army Directive 2025-04, Initial Entry Training for Reserve Component Soldiers, dated 25 March 2025 (throughout).
• Incorporates guidance from Army Directive 2025-06, Army Fitness Test, dated 17 April 2025 (throughout).
• Changes Army Combat Fitness Test to Army Fitness Test (throughout).
• Removes requirements for Home Station Master Plan, Army Training Strategy, and Army Leader Development Strategy (throughout).
• Deletes previous chapters on Culture and Language and Distributed Learning Program (throughout).
• Reduces Training Support System content in this regulation; rather referring to specific regulations (throughout).
I realize it won’t make everyone happy but it eliminates some extraneous mandatory training requirements and allows commanders flexibility to concentrate on more mission focused training.
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