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Leader investment is essential to promote, train, prioritize, and improve the readiness of Soldiers and units.
Leaders drive cultural change by providing the resources for that change.
The success or failure of the H2F System depends upon the quality of its leadership.
Leadership is the process of influencing Soldiers by providing purpose, direction, and motivation.
Unit leaders are responsible for the success of the H2F System and are accountable for their unit’s results.
They have to be highly aware of how the H2F System works, which requires much more than scheduling and supervising the training.
New knowledge acquisition is required by leaders at all levels of the Army.
H2F encompasses knowledge domains that are not typically owned by one expert.
However, because these domains impact the success of the Soldier in the garrison and on the battlefield, Army leaders must understand these domains.
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The goal of H2F leadership education is to prepare leaders to communicate, understand, establish, and support H2F within their organizations.
Leaders must understand their organizational role from supervising to training to resourcing.
Whether in command or not, Army leaders possess the knowledge of best practices.
The result of this leader education is improved compliance with H2F programming, a reduction in the disparity of readiness programming, and a marshalling of resources.
There will be a reduction in the likelihood and severity of physical and psychological injury or disease.
These outcomes occur when leaders understand the value and utility of the H2F System.
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The leadership education element of the H2F System builds awareness and sustains mastery so that leaders can set the example of optimal readiness across the physical and nonphysical domains.
When leaders extend themselves completely in strenuous training, Soldiers more often follow their example.
When Soldiers feel their chain of command believes in H2F to the extent that the chain of command regularly engages in the activities, Soldiers are motivated to greater effort.
The unprepared, hesitant leader loses the confidence and trust of Soldiers almost immediately.
The well-prepared, confident leader gains the respect and cooperation of all Soldiers at the outset and builds greater ésprit de corps.
INSTITUTIONAL TRAINING DOMAIN
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The Army’s institutional training domain includes Army training centers, functional schools, and professional military education.
This domain includes the centers of excellence and schools in TRADOC.
H2F instruction is embedded in institutional training and other leader development schools.
Examples might include—
● Basic combat training (BCT): training for Soldiers to learn to fully cooperate with their leaders and fellow Soldiers.
Orderly movement of Soldiers requires a precise and unified effort.
A Soldier learns that a team works smoothly when every Soldier does his and her part.
Each Soldier learns to respond to commands and learns what fellow Soldiers must do.
This teamwork is established through the medium of drills.
Drills teach Soldiers where to place their feet and arms during exercises, how to march, and how to handle a weapon.
Over the course of BCT, Soldiers find pride in their teams’ unified response to command.
● United States Army Medical Center of Excellence contextualized training for enlisted Soldiers and officers in medical professional military education and MOS-specialty coursework to enable better, rapid H2F support to the units they serve.
Examples include H2F master trainer certification for occupational therapists, behavioral health providers, physical therapists, and physical therapy specialists.
● United States Military Academy: H2F master trainer certification as course requirement prior to commissioning.
● Reserve Officer Training Corps: H2F master trainer certification as a course requirement prior to commissioning.
● Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences: applied human performance optimization courses for medical providers in the Army’s medical system.
● Integration into officer initial military training (IMT) and professional military education to develop leader H2F skills at each echelon.
OPERATIONAL TRAINING DOMAIN
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The Army’s operational training domain is the training that units perform while at home station, at maneuver combat training centers, during joint exercises, at mobilization centers, and while operationally deployed.
In preparation for managing these operational training situations, H2F leader education occurs in unit professional development classes.
Examples include the following:
● NCO basic, advanced, and senior leader courses.
● Squad-level H2F leader course taught by a battalion’s H2F performance team.
● Phase II of the H2F master trainer certification course.
SELF-DEVELOPMENT TRAINING DOMAIN
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The Army’s self-development training domain is the planned and deliberate learning that reinforces and expands the individual Soldier’s H2F knowledge.
It complements institutional and operational training and enhances understanding of the H2F System’s principles and best practices.
Examples include:
● Distributed learning (Phase I of the H2F master trainer course)
● Civilian and commercial certifications.
● College-level classes in exercise and sports sciences and human performance optimization.
Holistic Health and Fitness System
Holistic health and fitness (H2F) is the Army’s Soldier readiness system for physical and nonphysical training.
The Army enables it with the five enduring elements of governance, program, personnel, equipment and facilities, and leadership education.
The H2F program must meet the commander’s training goals to develop and maintain a high level of readiness appropriate to the unit’s mission-essential task list, individual Soldier duty positions, and challenges of multi-domain operations.