commanded an FSC, did a year as an OC at a CTC and now am an OC team planner – so my thoughts, shaped by these 3 experiences plus PL and XO time are:

– get your Soldiers away from garrison and home. DIRLAUTH coordinate with a unit in some other state, that either has an SSA or a training area and exercise that they’re participating in. Task an LT to come up with the whole movement piece – getting your unit to wherever this is, takes effort, good training in itself.

– get your soldiers there, and participate in the exercise or train with said unit on their SSA, ask them to run scenarios for you. the resources are there, but get away from home base.

story: took over an FSC that hadn’t trained in over a year, was underequipped, so I asked my XO to borrow/beg/steal equipment and we went to the field and trained for first time – it wasn’t high-speed but it was training and it improved morale, stopped excuses why we can’t do stuff, and highlighted my NCOs talents as trainers.

there’s also training/rotations happening overseas with NG units participating and we always are looking for more NG and Reserve guys in Europe. Maybe Kentucky has some exercises with partnered-nations. You can set-up FARPs/ROMs and find a customer unit to support with your robust capability, training individual and collective tasks concurrently.

Also – many LTs stateside command convoys from company area to the range while in Europe, 2LTs straight out of BOLC are commanding convoys across countries, working diplomatic clearances and march credits, navigating intricate bureaucracies, so sometimes going beyond the norm is good training; it doesn’t have to be what’s always been done before.