Design of the Basic Noncommissioned Officer Course for M1 Tank Commanders (19K BNCOC)

Training requirements for the 19K30 duty position (M1 tank commander) were previously analyzed to identify tasks which should be trained in the Basic Noncommissioned Officer Course for M1 tank commanders (19K BNCOC). The present report describes the development of a course outline in which the tasks are clustered and sequenced for training. The report also includes a description of the activities that were performed as part of this developmental effort including (a) a review of existing task documentation and the development of additional task documentation, (b) the preparation of a description of typical 19K BNCOC entrants, (c) the development, administration, and results of a procedure for selecting tasks for training using a Delphi panel of training experts, and (d) the identification of the relationship between procedural and nonprocedural tasks performed by tank commanders.