FINAL COURSE REPORT - INTRODUCTION TO OPERATIONS TRAINING, 4-15 JANUARY 1960

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• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 5, 2000
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: February 1, 1960
• Content Type: MEMO

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ES GOVERNMENT
TO Chief, Operations School
VIA Chief, Headquarters Training
Chief Instructor, Information Reporting,
Reports, and Requirements
DATE: 1 February 1960
SUBJECT: Final Course Report - Introduction to
Operations Training, 4-15 January 1960
SYNOPSIS
1. Ten JOTs were enrolled in a class organized for them under
the title of "Introduction to Operations Training." All ten attended
the class from 4 to 15 January 1960 with varying regularity. The class
was evenly divided between men and women, with an age range of 23-29
years according to incomplete data supplied. Thumbnail sketches of
students are attached as is also a schedule of instruction. The student
roster follows.
2. As a whole, the behavior of the group during the first day or 25X1A
two of the course was immaturely undisciplined. The minute the instructor
in charge left the room, work stopped and play started, wits generally
heading it up. Such symbols of childishness as crude swastikas and state-
ments like, "Junior wants to learn," were scrawled on the blackboard.
With the exception of a fairly steady corres ondence by note, generally
originating with between him and there was no 25X1A
discipline problem while the instructor was in the classroom. Left
to themselves on an all-day observation and reporting problem, some
students without completing the job quit early - one of them three hours
early. As a group, they lacked a fitting sense of responsibility. The
drive of urgency so evident in the person who has in him the making of
a reporter was not apparent throughout the group. It should be said,
though, that the class was generally enthusiastic about practical work
in reporting after the assignments had been carried out.
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3. During the second week of instruction, however, 25X1A
said of the group attitude: "In general, the student group had an eager
and an enthusiastic attitude. On two occasions the student body remained
during lunch to see training films."
4. By and large, during the first week, the group was punctual and
regular in attendance. Durin the second week, however, attendance fell 25X1A
off. Because of illness,was absent 11-13 January. ~ with
the excuse of U.S. Air Force physical examinations, was absent the morning
of 12 January and the entire day of 15 January. IV* .
STUDENT PERFORMANCE
5. In the week devoted to reporting, six of the ten students turned
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in top-flight performances- three, satisfactory; and one poor. In the
practical exercises did a relatively superior job in all respects.
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an eager worker, turned in an excellent report.
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did excellently in collecting information because of the
resourcefulness she showed in getting people to talk with her on what
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reporting in the group. He gets information because he is unobtrusively
aggressive in going after it - a real gift in the makeup of an information
collector. performed on the excellent level. As a reporter,
she was resourceful with perhaps a bit too much emphasis on being pleasantly
ag&essive in going after what she wanted. She wrote effectively.
performance was highl satisfactory. He carried. out his assignment thoroughly
and conscientiously,' got a late start and never did catch up or even
really try to. He was one of two in the group who did not bother to accept
an invitation to come to the reports instructor's office to check over his
work. ~performance was barely satisfactory. He was an aggressive
operator, perhaps too much of an extrovert"to be an unnoticeable and there-
fore a secure one. He wrote a sloppy re ort and did not both to_.copyre and
poQfread..,it. did e er best carry ni- g asstt her reporting assign-
ment, with sound and satisfactory results.
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8. estimate of student performance during the second
week of the course follows.
Attachments
1. List of students & sketches
2. Schedule
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