The document summarizes the Homestation Instrumentation Training System (HITS) which is a mobile training device that can track up to 2,000 live participants and 8,000 constructive participants during exercises. It describes how units can coordinate with the HITS Team to schedule and utilize the system for various types of training. HITS provides real-time data collection and tracking of units which can then be used to create an after action review with video, images and radio traffic to evaluate performance.

1. HITS
HOMESTATION
INSTRUMENTATION
TRAINING SYSTEM
Fort Drum
Directorate
Plans
Training
Mobilization
Security
The unit can sign for portable After Action
Review Workstations from the Fort Drum TASC
to conduct field or classroom AARs. The AAR
Workstation is setup to play the THP disk
provided to the unit by the HITS Team.
HITS can provide coverage for a training area of
up to 20 km x 20 km (seen above on Fort Drum).
The size of the coverage area can be adjusted to
track one specific training event or multiple
training events at one time.
HITS COORDINATION
Exercise Development (180 - 90 days out)
- Contact HITS Team
- Schedule HITS through RFMSS
- Include the HITS Team in the Units Initial
Planning Coordination (IPC)
- HITS Team needs:
- POCs (Unit, Observer Controllers, etc.)
- WARNO, OPORD, and any FRAGOs
- Dates and Locations of Training
- Unit sizes (BLUFOR, OPFOR, etc.)
- Any Graphics produced by the Unit
- Scheme of Indirect Fires (Weapons Systems to
be used)
- Battlefield Effects (IEDs, minefields, NBC
effects, OPFOR indirect fires, etc.)
System Training (45 - 30 days out)
- Augmentees / Liaisons
- Observer Controllers
Exercise Preparation (14 days out)
- Draw HITS equipment for Soldiers and vehicles
simultaneously with MILES equipment
- Develop Battle Roster
- Establish battery change out schedule
Exercise Execution
- HITS Team provides:
- Real Time data collection of the Unit’s training
- Timely AAR composition
- Flexibility for the Unit
Suggested Uses for HITS:
Force-on-Force engagements, Force-on-Target
ranges, Convoy Training, STX Lanes, Land
Navigation, CPX Events, and Joint Training
through LVC-IA.

2. The Voice Tactical Monitor (VTM) allows the
unit to monitor, transmit, receive, and record
live tactical radio (SINCGARS) transmissions
from the operator workstations. The unit must
provide the radio communications equipment.
The Interactive Pen Display (IPD) is an
additional display that allows key personnel to
draw graphics and interact with the real-time
exercise information on the 2D Map.
HITS is a mobile training device that gives a unit
many of the same training enablers at their
homestation that were previously only available
at the Maneuver Combat Training Centers. HITS
supports Battalion Task Force and below force-
on-target and force-on-force training exercises.
Up to 2,000 live and 8,000 constructive
participants can be tracked 24/7 during a given
training period. Tools are provided to collect,
analyze, and present specific battle-focused
information such as; location, weapons effects,
and battlefield status for real-time exercise
monitoring. Digital video, still images and radio
traffic can all be compiled together to create an
all encompassing After Action Review (AAR)
and Take Home Package (THP).
ACTUAL SCREEN SHOT
Training at Afghan Village in TA17
Yellow Circles - 1st Squad (BLUFOR)
Orange Circles - 2nd Squad (BLUFOR)
Green Circles - 3rd Squad (BLUFOR)
Red Diamonds - OPFOR
Blue Circle - Civilian on the Battlefield (COB)
Red X below Icon - Casualty
Solid Blue Line - BLUFOR Shot w/ Effects
Dotted Lines - Route Entity Traveled
Each soldier wears a HITS player unit (PU);
which consists of a Transmitter / Receiver (1)
and a Battery Pack (2). The system can be
integrated with MILES to show a soldier’s
weapons effects and damage or can be used
separately as a tracking system.
2
1
Fort Drum has, on-hand, 867 soldier player units
and 295 vehicle player units (102 combat vehicle
kits and 193 vehicle kits) available to be issued
to the unit. Each player unit can operate for up to
100 hrs on a single battery charge.
Vehicle mounted
player units
function the same
as the individual
soldier player unit.
The four operator workstations are the primary
interface for exercise execution, management
and feedback activities. The unit can also view
maps, input and edit events, monitor radio traffic
and generate reports for the AAR and THP.
FRONT
BACK
Digital cameras are available for the unit’s
Observer/Controllers to provide digital video
and still images of the training event for the
AAR and THP. Additional video and still
images can also be integrated from outside
sources (i.e. CACTF or camera’s) into the
AAR and THP.