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Personnel in the H2F System are located in units across the Army—all Components, all geographic regions.
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The H2F School is a future capability that will optimize existing competencies within the U.S. Army Physical Fitness School with emergent H2F capabilities to become the Army’s premier teaching facility for performance readiness.
The H2F School will be staffed with Regular Army and Army civilian instructors who are qualified to train and certify unit-level H2F personnel in Army-specific requirements.
For professionally-credentialed personnel, H2F instructors will conduct resident courses as well as installation-based courses across the Army via mobile training teams.
Sister schools in the One Army School System (known as OASS) will provide trained H2F personnel to National Guard and Reserve Soldiers.
At a minimum, graduates from the H2F School will receive the H2F additional skill identifier (known as ASI).
As the H2F System matures and the skills needed for H2F trainers expand, noncommissioned officers (NCOs) will be selected for MOS training at the H2F School.
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The H2F Performance Team Program Director serves as special staff to the brigade commander.
The H2F performance team is owned by the unit.
H2F performance team leaders have backgrounds and occupational specialties in exercise and rehabilitation sciences.
They serve in operational units and in United States Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) units at the Army’s training centers.
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H2F performance teams will advise their commanders on performance readiness issues to integrate H2F in mission planning and personnel decisions.
Serving as special staff to the commander, these advisors, educators, and training leaders ensure that standardized H2F programming is implemented.
H2F leaders will possess the knowledge to provide feedback on preventable H2F threats to the Soldier readiness mission.
They lead the implementation of the appropriate countermeasures through Soldier training and education in coordination with other members of the H2F performance team and unit leadership.
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The H2F performance team of experts and administrators designs, builds, delivers and tests the unit’s H2F program.
With command support, the H2F performance team and Soldier Performance Readiness Center (SPRC) promote an optimal readiness mindset—a culture of readiness that flows from meticulous attention to detail and compliance with the H2F program.
H2F permeates every military operation no matter what size and scale.
For example, H2F occupational and physical therapists move with their command teams circulating during combat training center rotations to eliminate medical evacuations from field training exercises (FTXs).
In a special operations unit in Afghanistan, a quick reaction team’s physical therapist and performance psychologist move out to a mountain team coming off a tough mission.
Their presence demonstrates that the unit cares about the team.
The team rules out the need to evacuate, reviews reconditioning and recovery exercises, checks exercise equipment, and reassures Soldiers about minor aches.
This biological, psychological, and sociological approach facilitates the healing process and a quick return to the fight.
Soldier lethality is sustained by the deployed H2F performance team.
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The H2F performance team assigned to a brigade-sized element generally consists of the personnel specialties described below and outlined in figure 1-2:
● The H2F Program Director advises commanders on performance readiness issues and integrates H2F into mission planning and personnel decisions.
● The H2F Facility Manager maintains functionality and readiness of the unit’s SPRC facility.
● The Nutrition Programs section coordinates nutrition education and training programs, providing individual and group performance nutrition counseling and education to enhance the combat performance of Soldiers in training and missions.
● The injury control section consists of physical therapists and athletic trainers:
▪ The physical therapy team provides a full range of professional injury screening, evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment in close proximity to where Soldiers train.
▪ Athletic trainers provide evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment of acute musculoskeletal conditions before, during, and after physical readiness training.
● The Physical Training Programs section consists of physical strength and conditioning specialist who develop, coordinate, execute, and manage individualized strength and conditioning programs focused on unit mission and individual Soldier tasks.
● The Cognitive Enhancement Programs section includes occupational therapists and a cognitive enhancement specialist:
▪ Occupational therapists focus on improving cognitive performance skills, mental and emotional skills, and interpersonal skills to optimize individual, team and unit cohesion and performance.
▪ The cognitive enhancement specialist manages and provides cognitive enhancement education and tailored training programs for individuals and teams by operationalizing resilience core competencies and addressing mental barriers to physical performance.
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In addition to H2F performance team, the brigade has the following resources assigned to augment H2F programming:
● Brigade unit ministry team (UMT):
▪ Chaplain.
▪ Religious affairs specialist.
● Brigade surgeon’s office:
▪ Brigade surgeon.
▪ Brigade physical therapist.
▪ Embedded behavioral health expert.
● Brigade logistics staff officer (S-4) food service advisor.
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Additional H2F personnel reside below brigade level as indicated:
● Battalion UMT.
▪ Chaplain.
▪ Religious affairs specialist.
● Battalion physician assistant.
● Battalion medics
● Four master fitness trainer (MFT) instructors (E-6 and E-7) per battalion support physical training.
● 40 H2F master trainers (E-5 and E-6) per battalion (8 per company).
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Training brigade H2F performance teams are responsible for educating Soldiers about physical readiness, nutritional readiness, mental readiness, spiritual readiness, and sleep readiness as well as the importance of these domains in building and maintaining Soldier readiness.
It is during initial entry training that Soldiers receive the fundamentals for establishing and maintaining their personal H2F.
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Army Reserve and National Guard H2F personnel are controlled and supported by their headquarters or the state where they work.
They are certified in the same One Army School System as their Regular Army colleagues.
Once certified, these Soldiers work full-time in their unit or state providing H2F training either to a pre-determined number of Soldiers within a geographical area (city, county, region, or district) or to Soldiers attending training at a reserve training center, armory, regional training institute or professional education center, or SPRC equivalent.
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Like their Regular Army Soldiers, Army Reserve and National Guard H2F master trainers have civilian or Army certification or licensure in the exercise sciences.
They have prior experience in military and collegiate performance settings.
When daily individual and collective training is not feasible, Army Reserve and National Guard H2F trainers use face-to-face assessments and needs analyses to develop individual programs they can conduct remotely.
Follow-up appointments and small group training sessions, complemented by online performance platforms for remote and deployed Soldiers are used to build and deliver Army Reserve and National Guard Soldier readiness.
H2F trainer instructors mentor, test, monitor, and report compliance of Army Reserve and National Guard Soldiers.
In partnership with recruiters, they prepare National Guard recruits for the Occupational Physical Assessment Test (OPAT) and Future Soldier Program (FSP).
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The manning solutions for Army Reserve and National Guard depend upon the state and unit size and the geographic distribution of Soldiers.
In a typical scenario, the state’s H2F performance team consists of—
● One H2F State Coordinator (physical therapist, strength and conditioning specialist, certified mental performance consultant, general schedule [GS]-13 or contractor ) with the following credentials:
▪ Graduate degree in health professions (administration or treatment) or exercises sciences.
▪ Certification as H2F master trainer instructor by and instructed previously in H2F School.
▪ Management of state H2F performance team.
▪ Coordination of physical and nonphysical programming with partner institutions (Military Entrance Processing Command [known as MEPCOM], United States Army Recruiting Command [USAREC], colleges and universities, commercial partners, Veterans Administration, and nongovernmental organizations).
● Six H2F master trainers (strength and conditioning specialist, sergeant first class [SFC], GS-11, or contractor) with the following credentials:
▪ Bachelor’s degree in exercise science.
▪ Completed coursework in sport or performance psychology.
▪ Strength and conditioning specialist.
▪ Certification in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (known as CPR) and automatic electronic defibrillator (known as AED).
▪ Certification H2F master trainer by H2F School.
● 1 Registered Dietitian (GS-12 or contractor) with the following credentials:
▪ Coordination of nutrition services.
▪ Army Body Composition Program (ABCP) trainer and subject matter expert for the state.
▪ Master’s degree in nutrition.
▪ Board certified specialist in sports dietetics (known as CSSD).