text: Chapter 2
  echelon commander. METs identified and approved as lower priority are resourced to maintain proficiency,
  but are not the unit’s training priority.
  PRIORITIZING COLLECTIVE TASKS BELOW COMPANY LEVEL
  2-5. Leaders of echelons below company level (platoons, squads, crews, teams, and other small units) must
  also prioritize the collective tasks on which their echelon trains. Limited time and resources prevent lower
  echelon organizations from simultaneously attaining a ‘T’ proficiency on all collective tasks that support
  their organization’s METs. Therefore, leaders of echelons below company level select and prioritize the
  collective tasks for their echelon that are most critical to the accomplishment of their company’s prioritized
  METs. These prioritized collective tasks below company level that are critical to the successful
  accomplishment of prioritized company METs are battle tasks. A battle task is a platoon or lower echelon
  collective task that is crucial to the successful accomplishment of a company, battery, or troop mission-
  essential task. An organization’s battle tasks can include high-payoff tasks or battle drills.
  2-6. Platoon leaders with the assistance of their platoon sergeant identify and prioritize the battle tasks that
  best support their company’s prioritized METs. This process continues to lower echelons with
  noncommissioned officers determining the prioritized battle tasks that best apply to their echelon (such as
  squad, team, or crew). Company commanders are responsible for the proper nesting of battle tasks to METs.
  2-7. Based on organizational structure and design, some units may not perform collective tasks at certain
  echelons. In these cases, the unit’s leaders proceed by linking prioritized individual tasks to the next higher
  level of unit collective tasks (in some cases, these may be METs).
  PRIORITIZING INDIVIDUAL TASKS
  2-8. Task prioritization continues as noncommissioned officers identify and prioritize the individual tasks
  Soldiers train. These include military occupational specialty (known as MOS)-specific tasks, Army warrior
  tasks, and physical readiness training. Prioritization of tasks ensures the right tasks to train nest from the
  highest echelon to the lowest. (See appendix C for individual training.)
  PRIORITIZING LEADER TASKS
  2-9. Leaders develop subordinate leaders through focused leader development activities to include the
  selection and prioritization of leader tasks. Senior leaders ensure the selection and prioritization of leader
  tasks nest in the echelon’s prioritized METs or battle tasks and are reflected in the organization’s leader
  development program.
  PRIORITIZING STAFF TASKS
  2-10. Battalion and higher staffs select staff battle tasks in the same manner. They select those staff collective
  and individual tasks that support the unit’s METs through training. The senior member of each staff section
  approves staff battle tasks.
  SUPPORTING COLLECTIVE TASKS
  2-11. METs and battle tasks may be trained individually or combined with other collective tasks to create
  more robust training events. Collective tasks that support other collective tasks (MET, battle task, or another
  collective task) are supporting collective tasks. Although units may train supporting collective tasks in
  conjunction with METs and battle tasks, leaders do not consider these supporting collective tasks when
  determining the MET or battle task proficiency rating. Each collective task is evaluated based on its own
  training and evaluation outline.
  HIGH-PAYOFF TASKS
  2-12. High-payoff tasks are tasks that support more than one of the organization’s METs or battle tasks. The
  skills and proficiencies an organization achieved while training on a high-payoff task transfers to other METs