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Conduct professional discussions on event performance standards to enable soldiers to self-assess, improve strengths, and address weaknesses. Receive candid insights on soldier, leader, and unit strengths and weaknesses, critical for battle-focused training. A formal or informal AAR provides valuable feedback and details often missing in evaluation reports. Steps include reviewing the training plan, analyzing actual performance, identifying strengths and weaknesses, and determining adjustments for future tasks.
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After Action Review (AAR) • Professional discussion of an event, focused on performance standards • Enables soldier to discover for themselves what happened; why it happened; how to sustain strengths and improve on weaknesses • Provides: • Candid insights into specific soldier, leader and unit strengths and weaknesses, from various perspectives • Feedback and insight critical to battle-focused training • Details often lacking in evaluation reports alone • Can be formal or informal
After Action Review (AAR)Steps • Review what was supposed to happen (training plan): Evaluator, along with participants, reviews what was supposed to happen based on commander’s intent, the training plan, and task and evaluation outlines • Establish what actually happened: Evaluator and participants determine what actually happened during the performance of the training task • Determine what was right or wrong with what happened: Participants discuss the strong or weak points of their performance; evaluator facilitates the discussion • Determine how task should be done differently next time: Evaluator assists unit in determining how participants will perform differently the next time the task is performed.