text: Planning and Preparation
  time management system based on unit training priorities and missions. The most common time
  management system used within the Army is the Green-Amber-Red cycle:
   Green cycle. Units in the green cycle have training resource priority and focus predominately
  on unit collective training. Higher commanders protect these units from taskings and training
  distracters. Green cycle is also referred to as prime time training.
   Amber cycle. Amber cycle units have training resource priority behind green cycle units.
  Commanders normally focus training in the amber cycle on small unit, individual, leader, and
  battle task proficiency. Higher commanders only assign amber cycle units taskings that
  exceed red cycle units’ ability to support.
   Red cycle. Units in red cycle are the primary organizations that execute higher headquarters
  directed support taskings. Units in this cycle still conduct training, but training focuses
  primarily on individual tasks, weapon proficiency and self-development opportunities.
  * Training events. Commanders design and schedule training events focused on achieving the
  desired proficiency levels in their prioritized tasks. Commanders define training objectives for
  each training event by clearly identifying the tasks, conditions, and standards as well as the
  expected outcome. They develop unit training proficiencies following a systematic process
  starting with supporting individual tasks and progressing through the unit’s prioritized mission-
  essential tasks.
  * Utilize the crawl-walk-run method. Commanders sequence training events from relatively simple
  to increasingly more complex. This methodology known as crawl-walk-run develops unit training
  proficiencies in a progressive sequence and ensures that task proficiencies build on each other,
  laying a solid foundation before moving on to more complex tasks and increasingly complex
  conditions. See figure 3-1 for the crawl-walk-run method.
  Figure 3-1. Sample crawl-walk-run training events
  * Allocate the necessary training time and resources to enable subordinate organizations to train to
  standard. Most non-staff training is executed at the platoon and below. For example, in a typical
  brigade, 70–80 percent of training should occur at platoon level and below, 10–15 percent at
  company, and 5–10 percent at battalion and brigade. However, all training should seek
  multiechelon training opportunities and battalions and brigades should leverage command post
  exercises to command and control lower echelon training to build and sustain proficiency. For
  example, battalions should establish a command and control element during platoon exercises.
  (See appendix F for training exercises.)
  * Multiechelon training. Multiechelon training is a training technique that allows for the
  simultaneous training of one or more echelons on different or complementary tasks (ADP 7-0).
  As each echelon conducts its analysis to determine tasks to train, individual Soldier tasks to
  brigade-level mission-essential tasks are nested where possible.