The United States Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) was a major command of the United States Army headquartered at Fort Eustis, Virginia. It was active from 1973 to 2025. It was charged with overseeing training of Army forces and the development of operational doctrine. TRADOC operated 37 schools and centers at 27 different locations. TRADOC schools conducted 1,304 courses and 108 language courses. The 1,304 courses included 516,000 seats (resident, on-site and distributed learning) for 443,231 soldiers; 36,145 other-service personnel; 8,314 international soldiers; and 28,310 civilians. It was disestablished on September 26, 2025 and its functions transferred to the U.S. Army Transformation and Training Command (T2COM) in Austin, Texas on October 2, 2025.[1]
Training and Doctrine Command develops, educates and trains Soldiers, civilians, and leaders; supports unit training; and designs, builds and integrates a versatile mix of capabilities, formations, and equipment to strengthen the U.S. Army as America's Force of Decisive Action.[5]
General Creighton Abrams, Chief of Staff of the US Army, identified that the Army needed to be reoriented and retrained to counter the conventional threat of the Soviets and ordered the establishment of Training and Doctrine Command.[6] TRADOC was established as a major U.S. Army command on 1 July 1973; its first chief was William DePuy.[7]
The new command, along with the United States Army Forces Command, was created from the Continental Army Command (CONARC) located at Fort Monroe, Virginia. That action was the major innovation in the Army's post-Vietnam reorganization, in the face of realization that CONARC's obligations and span of control were too broad for efficient focus. The new organization functionally realigned the major Army commands in the continental United States. CONARC, and Headquarters, U.S. Army Combat Developments Command (CDC), situated at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, were discontinued, with TRADOC and FORSCOM at Fort Belvoir assuming the realigned missions. TRADOC assumed the combat developments mission from CDC, took over the individual training mission formerly the responsibility of CONARC, and assumed command from CONARC of the major Army installations in the United States housing Army training center and Army branch schools.
Joined under TRADOC, the major Army missions of individual training and combat developments each had its own lineage. The individual training responsibility had belonged, during World War II, to Headquarters Army Ground Forces (AGF). In 1946, numbered army areas were established in the U.S. under AGF command. At that time, the AGF moved from Washington, D.C. to Fort Monroe. In March 1948, the AGF was replaced at Fort Monroe with the new Office, Chief of Army Field Forces (OCAFF). OCAFF, however, did not command the training establishment. That function was exercised by Headquarters, Department of the Army through the numbered armies to the corps, division, and Army Training Centers.
In February 1955, HQ Continental Army Command (CONARC) replaced OCAFF, assuming its missions as well as the training missions from DA (the Department of Army). In January[when?], HQ CONARC was redesignated U.S. Continental Army Command.
Combat developments emerged as a formal Army mission in the early 1950s, and OCAFF assumed that role in 1952. In 1955, CONARC assumed the mission. In 1962, the Army Combat Development Command (CDC) was established to bring combat development functions under one roof.[8]
In May 2025, the Army announced it would combine the Training and Doctrine Command with Army Futures Command, forming the "Army Transformation and Training Command".[9][10] Under the merger, TRADOC headquarters personnel would relocate to Austin, Texas. In July, the Army announced the merger was set for October.[11]
On 26 September 2025, the Training and Doctrine Command was ceremonially deactivated at Fort Eustis, Virginia.[12][13] Effective 2 October 2025, TRADOC will be fully deactivated, in-step with the Transformation and Training Command, or T2COM, activation on 2 October.[12][14]
↑ "Command overview brief"(PDF). U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command. 2012. Archived from the original(PDF) on 1 April 2013. Retrieved 12 March 2013.
↑ Judson, Jen (8 May 2025). "Army names newly combined futures and training command". Defense News. Archived from the original on 27 September 2025. Retrieved 27 September 2025. The U.S. Army will consolidate its Futures Command with its Training and Doctrine Command under a new command called the Army's Transformation and Training Command, Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George said during a House Appropriations defense subcommittee posture hearing Wednesday. (Command announced on Wednesday, 7 May 2025, and article published Thursday, 8 May 2025.)
↑ Thayer, Rose L. (19 May 2025). "Army will expand presence in Austin under command merger plans". Stars and Stripes. Archived from the original on 26 September 2025. Retrieved 27 September 2025. Futures Command and Training and Doctrine Command [will merge, forming the] Transformation and Training Command, according to Gen. Randy George, Army Chief of Staff.
↑ Thayer, Rose L. (10 July 2025). "Army moves forward with October merger of Futures Command and TRADOC". Stars and Stripes. Archived from the original on 27 September 2025. Retrieved 27 September 2025. The Army will consolidate its Futures Command and Training and Doctrine Command in October under one four-star general, service officials said Thursday. (Thursday, 10 July 2025.) Gen. Randy George [the Army chief of staff], told Congress in May that the merged command will be named the Army's Transformation and Training Command, and [that] Austin was chosen.
1 2 Thayer, Rose L. (26 September 2025). "Army closes Training and Doctrine Command to make way for merger with Futures Command". Stars and Stripes. Archived from the original on 26 September 2025. Retrieved 26 September 2025. "The Army Training and Doctrine Command was inactivat[ed] on Friday, Sept. 26, 2025. (...) TRADOC's inactivation will be effective Oct. 2, 2025." (Caption credit: Cherish Chavez/U.S. Air Force.) (...) Futures Command will inactivate Thursday in a ceremony at the University of Texas at Austin. The Transformation and Training Command will activate at the same time. (Thursday, 2 October 2025)
↑ "Homepage | TRADOC website". tradoc.army.mil. Archived from the original on 26 September 2025. Retrieved 26 September 2025. The U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command Inactivation Ceremony will be held Friday, September 26. The ceremony will be livestreamed here on our homepage beginning at 2 pm (EST)
↑ Borgeson, Nina (26 September 2025). "Turning the Page: TRADOC inactivation marks new chapter in Army transformation". www.army.mil. Archived from the original on 27 September 2025. Retrieved 27 September 2025. The U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command was officially inactivated during a ceremony at Fort Eustis on Sept. 26. The ceremony marks the beginning of the establishment of the U.S. Army Transformation and Training Command, set to officially activate Oct. 2 with a ceremony at the new headquarters in Austin, Texas. (...) The inactivation ceremony opened with a presentation of flags recognizing each of the TRADOC subordinate commands. The TRADOC colors were then cased by Gen. Gary M. Brito, commanding general, TRADOC, and Command Sgt. Maj. Raymond S. Harris, command sergeant major, TRADOC, signifying the end of the command's distinguished service to the country.
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