text: Appendix I
  Live-Fire Training
  OVERVIEW
  I-1. Live-fire training is the most effective way to generate confidence and trust among leaders, teammates,
  and Soldiers. Live-fire training involves movement and maneuver as well as employing weapon systems in
  a training environment using full-caliber ammunition. It includes prerequisite training, weapons qualification,
  and collective live fire. This training provides realistic, hands-on weapons training to achieve and sustain
  individual and collective unit weapons proficiency. Live-fire training should be a training event that stresses
  leaders and Soldiers at every echelon.
  I-2. With proper planning and resourcing, live-fire training is a tailorable and scalable training exercise
  based on the training objectives set by the senior certifying commander. It may incorporate numerous tactical
  tasks against a dynamic opposing force in a live environment with realistic battlefield effects, if available
  from a unit’s installation. Properly executed live-fire training is not a traditional range, but a replicated force-
  on-force scenario under live-fire conditions. (See the Army Training Network (ATN) at https://atn.army.mil
  for more on live-fire training.)
  I-3. Live-fire training provides training for—
  * Weapon systems proficiency.
  * Maneuver training.
  * Fire control and distribution.
  * Live-fire certification.
  * Command and control skills in a live-fire environment.
  * Individual and unit movement and maneuver techniques under live-fire conditions.
  * Weapons systems safety awareness and compliance.
  * Risk management (risk to force, risk to mission).
  * Leader development opportunities.
  * Soldier confidence in assigned weapons systems and leader confidence in individual and collective
  training proficiency.
  I-4. Live-fire training takes a building block approach from developing, for example, individual weapons
  proficiency to crew and team proficiency to squad proficiency to platoon proficiency. To reach weapons
  proficiency, individuals and units must first learn and demonstrate basic weapon skills. Once they achieve
  this foundation, units begin to build on it layer by layer, echelon by echelon until proficiency is achieved.
  Units should maintain subordinate leaders in their positions or determine a way to re-certify new leaders if
  time is not available to execute another live-fire exercise at the lower level. Additionally, when units plan
  live-fire training, commanders strive to stabilize leaders in their positions as much as practicable. They also
  plan periodic re-certification programs for these leaders as well as establish a solid live-fire certification
  program for new leaders.
  I-5. Live-fire training progresses in four stages:
  * Prerequisite training.
  * Weapons qualification (individual, crew-served, and platform).
  * Maneuver training.
  * Live-fire (crawl, walk, run).
  Note. The first three stages can happen any time prior to execution of live-fire training.