Updating Weapons Qual How DTMS Tracks IWQ DTMS

Updating Weapons Qual

How DTMS Tracks IWQ DTMS looks at your MTOE for the required weapon systems and uses that as your denominator when calculating your qualification percentage. IMPORTANT CHANGE 10/25 DTMS received an update that fixed a long running problem with calculating qualification percentages. It now considers all Rifle and Carbine variants equivalent. Prior to the update, if your unit was required 88 M 4 A 1 s by MTOE but only had 45 On Hand like the picture to the right, the highest qualification percentage on Rifles you could get was 45/88 = 51%. It would not consider an M 16 A 2 or M 16 A 4 qualification as an M 4 A 1 qual. After the update, it will now consider an M 16 A 4 and M 16 A 2 qualification the same as an M 4 A 1 if the weapon is assigned the correct way (see next slides)

Assigning Individual Weapons USARC has done audits and most Companies do not assign weapons properly. Your number “Assigned” column CANNOT exceed your “On Hand” Column. The system will let you do it, but you will get a call from the G 3 and be told to fix it. Many Companies assigned more than were on hand because of the bug that was fixed with the 10/25 update. If your MTOE required 88 M 4 A 1 s but you only had 45 on hand to shoot you would assign everyone an M 4 A 1 in DTMS no matter what they shot on the range, so it would count but doing that would make your Assigned column much higher than your On Hand quantity. Now that all rifle variants count you don’t have to exceed your On Hand quantity.

Assigning Individual Weapons (Option 1) 1. To assign a weapon and a qualification record on the same screen open a soldier and click the weapons tab. 2. Assign their weapon by clicking Add Assignment. If it is their Primary Weapon based on the MTOE click “Primary Weapon”. The Start Date it will ask for won’t impact the qualification. IMPORTANT Qualifications in the Reserve expire 1 year from the Qualification Date and are then no longer counted by DTMS IMPORTANT The weapon systems must match here or it won’t count. If you assign an M 16 A 4 then their qualification must have an M 16 A 4. Even with the new update on 10/25 these still must match. In the past, even if they matched, only qualifications from the variant required on the MTOE would count. 3. Add a qualification by hitting Add Qualification. When filling out the qualification you must select the options in order: Weapon -> Date -> Form -> Enter Hits -> Hit Score and then save it.

Assigning Individual Weapons (Option 2) 1. To mass assign weapons open your weapons management screen and click “Manage” 2. The following screen comes up. You can click the Assign box then save at the bottom of the screen to quickly assign weapons and make them primary if they are the primary system for them on the MTOE. Click the “Records Per Page” to see more of your company listed. The default is only 10. IMPORTANT Remember you can only assign up to the amount you have On Hand. The system will let you assign more but you will fail in in DTMS audit. 3. To add a qualification click this icon and it will take you to the screen from option 1.

Assigning Crew Weapons 2 b. To add a new crew click “Add” 1. Open your Crew Serve Weapons Management and expand the lists for each weapon systems to see your crews (if you have any) IMPORTANT For a crew qualification to count it must be “Reportable” and the Date Assigned (see next slide) must be at least the day before the qualification. Reportable means you can assign the soldiers on that crew to only one crew. The system will block you from assigning them to others. It will also prevent you from making more reportable crews than weapons systems on hand. 2 a. To update an existing crews qual, click “Qualification”

Assigning Crew Weapons (continued) 3. For “Number”, I recommend adding the names of the soldiers. It is easier to track since that is what is displayed on your weapons management screen 4. Select “Reportable” 5. You only need to assign a gunner if that is all that is checked. Click “Assign” for the Gunner to assign a soldier to this weapon

Assigning Crew Weapons (continued) 6. Find the solder you want to assign and click “Assign” 7. Enter the Assignment Date when asked. IMPORTANT The assignment date MUST be before the qualification date or it will not record the qualification. This is important to keep in mind if you are going back to fix your qualification records based on this slide deck. Don’t just use the default assignment date of today.

Assigning Crew Weapons (continued) 8. After you select and “Assigned Date you” will be returned to this screen. Hit “Qualification” IMPORTANT Make sure you see the soldier you just selected and the right Assignment Date

Assigning Crew Weapons (continued) 8. Select the date they qualified then hit “Mark as Qualified” IMPORTANT The assignment date MUST be before the qualification date or it will not record the qualification.