WHY YOU GOT THIS: If one of your Soldiers gave you this document, congratulations!  This means you have a Soldier who has taken their own time to improve their knowledge and understanding of Army doctrine.  The quizzes the Soldier provided with this document show proof of their self-improvement efforts.

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WHAT IS IT: The Daily Dose of Doctrine (DDOD) was conceived to help reserve component Soldiers stay cognizant of doctrine and related matters between drills. Subscribers gain and maintain awareness of the latest developments, discussions and releases of doctrine. DDOD helps reserve component Soldiers bridge the gap of daily "water cooler conversation" enjoyed by their active component colleagues. But there is no reason active component Soldiers cannot subscribe and benefit as well. 

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HOW IT WORKS: 

• Each day, DDOD emails subscribers link to a quick read (one-to-two-minutes (we hope)) on an aspect of Army doctrine, regulations, or TTPs (tactics, techniques and procedures).

• Each week, subscribers receive a link to our Weekly Quiz. The quiz covers a comprehensive set of questions covering the last week. The quiz is open-book and open note, and the Friday email with the quiz link includes a roundup of the week's material. 

• Each rating period, subscribers can compile their quiz records for submission to document independent self-development during that evaluation period. This is why you have received this document. This also is applicable (perhaps more so) to promotion evaluations for E4s.

 

WHAT YOU SHOULD HAVE RECEIVED: Typically, Soldiers provide their rating chains with print outs of their quizzes for review and inclusion in evaluations. DDOD subscribers receive emailed copies of each weekly quiz with their score, each question and their answers. There are no score summaries or report cards provided. If a Soldier provides you a cumulative score or an average score that is generated by them.

 

ABOUT THE QUIZ: The quizzes are emailed each week, generally on Friday, but there is no guarantee the Soldier took the quiz immediately. Quizzes remain live for about a month after issue, so it's possible a Soldier did several in a block the night before his or her evaluation was due.  Quizzes generally are identifiable with the Soldier's non-military email (we prefer this because they can more easily access the DDOD on their phones or devices). Their name should also be on it. And, again, the quiz is open-note, open-book.

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WHAT YOU CAN DO: Typically, we would expect raters to include evaluation bullets or comments about Soldier's use of DDOD in the Character, Intellect, or Achieves sections of Army evaluations. Some examples:

• PVT Smith completed 50 weekly quizzes on doctrine provided by an outside vendor.

• SGT Smith took the initiative to complete a course of weekly self-directed study on broad doctrinal topics.

• SSG Smith scored an average of 90% on weekly quizzes on doctrine in an independent self-study.

• SFC Smith continued an ongoing course of independent study on a broad variety of topics in Army Doctrine.

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HOW IT'S DONE: DDOD provides information that comes strictly from unlimited distribution publications. Only publications that do not require CAC cards for access are used as source documents.

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CONTACT: via email: dailydoseofdoctrine@gmail.com