text: Appendix I
  PREREQUISITE TRAINING
  I-6. Prior to conducting any live-fire, prerequisite and familiarization training is conducted to inform and
  educate Soldiers and leaders on weapon system functions, capabilities, and safety requirements. When
  available, training aids, devices, simulators, and simulations (known as TADSS) provide additional hands-
  on training that replicate weapon system performance and characteristics prior to conducting live fire.
  I-7. Prerequisite training for each echelon of a live fire ensures proficiency on all tasks that will be executed
  under live-fire conditions. Based on collective live-fire experiences at combat training centers, commanders
  consider the following recommended prerequisite training when developing a live-fire exercise (LFX)
  program:
  * Conduct a LFX within the required time (typically 12 months) at one echelon below the live fire
  to be executed. For example, when executing a platoon live fire, each of the platoon’s subordinate
  squads should have completed squad live fire. Certify new leaders if unable to maintain
  subordinate leaders in position and there is insufficient time to re-execute live-fire exercises at the
  lower level.
  * Conduct situational training exercises at the level of the LFX. Ensure that most key leaders occupy
  the positions they will fill during the execution of the LFX.
  * Individual training, to include integration of multiple warfighting functions, must be executed
  prior to the live fire. Ideally, this is done under live-fire conditions; however, the commander may
  underwrite the risk of using virtual or constructive training environments.
  * Units should execute certification events when employing specialty weapons such as the Javelin,
  TOW (for tube launched, optically tracked, wire guided), hand grenades, and explosive breaching
  techniques prior to execution of the LFX.
  * Above company level, a separate fire coordination exercise should be executed for attack aviation,
  mortars, and artillery to ensure subordinate commanders or leaders have the requisite proficiencies
  to integrate these assets with ground maneuver forces.
  I-8. Collective training under live-fire conditions should seek to incorporate the entire combined arms
  formation such as during a combat training center brigade combat team LFX. The following vignette
  illustrates live-fire training that incorporates multiple live-fire tasks.