You are listening to the War on the Rocks podcast on strategy, defense and foreign Affairs. My name's Ryan Evans, I'm the

founder of Warren the Rocks. In this episode I spoke with General Gary Brito, the

commander of US Army training and doctrine command. I got to know him a little bit better and we spoke about strengthening the Army profession, one of the key initiatives of General Randy George, the chief of staff of the Army.

General Brito also has an article coming out on the subject with us in Warren the rocks in about a week, so don't miss that.

Enjoy the show.

General Brito, you command training and doctrine command what what is that exactly

US Army training doctor command just so happens is our 50th anniversary and to kind of simplify it

I we have the responsibility for training the very best soldiers in the Army,

leadership development for the Army, helping shape the future force while working with our other commands as well, and the connective tissue is helping

build army culture also. So in my words, that first layer of bricks to

contribute to the war fighting readiness of the army starts here not to say that we own it but

training the very best soldiers developing the very best leaders to include our

civilian professionals helping shape the future force working with

future command futures command and others and

building a very positive army culture is very important and I would say that we

have a very big interest in a role in supporting our recruiting and

a sessions for our army as well because once they're in they have to get trained

so we have a hand-in-hand relationship with a recruiting command and really supporting our army.

I think a lot of people don't appreciate, maybe even in the army how sprawling and

large trade-ock is and all the different things that's responsible for.

Could you talk a bit about that?

Sure, I will tell you in numbers is not the largest four-star command, but it is spread

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