TRADOC general says merger will be ‘clunky’ but effective as Fort Eustis command deactivates

Gen. Gary Brito calls himself the 18th and final commander of Training and Doctrine Command. TRADOC, created more than 50 years ago at Fort Monroe before moving to Fort Eustis in 2011, will be deactivated in a ceremony next Friday.

The training command will merge with Army Futures Command to form the new Army Transformation and Training Command, based in Austin, Texas. Brito spoke on “The War Room,” the US Army War College’s official podcast, which was published Tuesday.

“I do think there’ll be some clunkiness to work through. But this organization will deliver force generation,” Brito said. “They’ll connect the big cogs of force generation, force design and force development.”…

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