Welcome to JTC

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Ladies and Gentlemen, I would like to take this occasion to welcome you to the Joint Forces Staff College’s Joint Transition Course. During this course, you will have the opportunity to learn about the organization and the planning processes associated with the United States and its Department of Defense. The Joint Transition Course is a consolidation of a much broader curriculum and is intended to give you a concise overview of the subject matter. The presentations and discussions that occur in this course are intended to review, and or provide you with, the basic elements of the Joint Professional Military Education Phase I and introduce you to the subject matter that you will be studying over the following ten weeks.

The Course Schedule provides the daily listing of events and the classes presented. This course is intensive as you can see by the outline and the respective learning objectives along with the associated readings that need to be completed before each day. Your required readings are available at your seat. Preparation for each class will enhance class discussions while reinforcing faculty presentations. On the final day of the course, you will have an opportunity to use the information provided in the previous classes to conduct an exercise based on a complex operational contingency and to complete the end of course assessment. So once again, welcome to each of you and looking forward to this educational opportunity.

JTC Lesson Guide, 09-2

Joint Transition Course Schedule