As the commander of the land force doctrine and training system, I would point out that we have a number of principal formations, but that it's not just an exercise in command. We also have staff directorates, if you will, of the army organization. So we have the Canadian Manoeuvre Training Centre that you saw out west. That delivers collective training. We have the individual training centre of excellence in Gagetown, called the Combat Training Centre. It's where all our schools are: armour, artillery, infantry, combat engineer, and tactics schools. We also have three other schools: the communication school in Kingston, the electrical and mechanical engineering school in Borden, and the Land Advanced Warfare Centre in Trenton. Those eight schools belong to the Combat Training Centre.
We also have an army staff college in Kingston. Underpinning that, we also have the Directorate of Army Doctrine, the Directorate of Army Training, and the Army Lessons Learned Centre. I also have an influence activities task force. It's all part of the organization. DAD's responsibilities are fundamentally to make linkages. The director of army doctrine is an up-and-out person. That person is constantly looking to see what's going on the international level, surveying how our allies are thinking about evolving doctrinal issues, and linking in with other services.
The Army Lessons Learned Centre is a very small organization. It's actually only about five or six people in total. That includes our use of augmentees in operations. I have two individuals assigned overseas as part of Operation Attention in the mission in Afghanistan. Their job is to bring back lessons learned and observations. Although they report on a daily basis to Major General Mike Day overseas, in effect, they work for the army. They help bring the lessons identified back, and then we work through those and determine what we need to incorporate into doctrine and what we need to use right off in training.
I can give you a specific example of how that process works in a very rapid fashion. We take pride in our ability to adapt—if you wish to pursue that in a subsequent question.