The Training Support Center Hampton Roads (TSCHR) Fleet Training Liaison Office (FTLO) is taking every measure to produce a more highly-trained naval force.

The FLTO is doing so by acting as a liaison between ships and the Navy Education and Training Command (NETC) learning sites and centers in an effort to support fleet readiness and enhance the use of available training assets.

TSCHR's FTLO is the primary point of contact for fleet training officers (FTOs) and school coordinators. Command representatives with questions regarding requirements, schools availability, class convenings, and training facility locations can contact the FTLO at TSCHRFLEETLO@navy.mil or Glenn Merson, TSCHR FTLO, at glenn.merson1@navy.mil, 757-492-7993.

"Our FTLO office does a great job of being proactive to support the waterfront," said Lt. Cmdr. Gregory Leveque, TSCHR executive officer. "We take the ships that are upcoming deployers and drill down on their readiness to find out where they need help. Not stopping there, we assign quotas to courses where they are deficient, to ensure they are getting underway as close to 100 percent on critical and essential CINs (course identification numbers) and NECs (Navy Enlisted Classification Codes). We then work with the ships to fill those quotas with names."

"FTLO staff members are working in partnership with the staff at Commander, Naval Surface Forces Atlantic, [and] the TSCHR FTLO will coordinate with fleet units to assign the daily quotas based on operational schedules, type command (TYCOM) prioritization, and training deficiencies," said Merson.

According to Leveque, "Through closer coordination with the fleet and a more proactive direct management of available training, the benefits of this process are that it provides a speedy solution to remedy training shortfalls within existing resources by ensuring fleet training readiness improves and course utilization is maximized."

FTLO is comprised of both military and civilian personnel who keep the training officers abreast of any changes which affect their community by holding training, seminars, and sending out informative messages with need-to-know quota availabilities, emergent requirements, and valuable contact information. Working hand-in-hand with FTLO is the Central Quota Control (CQC) office.

CQC is the primary point of contact for managing training requirements and quotas for fleet units on the east coast. In order to increase the production capacity of CQC, staff members recently realigned to handle more critical functions and to absorb additional quota control duties from the NETC learning sites. The FTLO and CQC team now provides Atlantic Fleet units with a one-stop shopping site to address quota requirements.

"CQC continues to maximize training opportunities for more than 1600+ courses of instruction (COIs) for which TSC-HR is the quota control authority," said Melva Moore, TSCHR CQC manager. "CQC successfully created training opportunities for over 139,637 students through eNTRS (Enterprise Navy Training Reservation System) and handled over 22,325 transactions through emails, Standard Training Activity Support System, walk-ins and calls in FY (fiscal year) 2016. Quotas are requested by enterprise Naval Training Reservation System, and being allocated and confirmed within 24-48 hours of submission to CQC. Quota requests are still being accepted via email and fax mainly because the requester may have network connectivity issues, system downtime, and/or upgrades to eNTRS."

For additional help, contact the CQC office at 757-492-5335 or tschrquotas@navy.mil.

"Much of this success is with the help of Afloat Training Group (ATG) Norfolk," said Leveque. "TSCHR FTLO and ATG teamed up to ensure training officers are being taught to take full advantage of eNTRS to requisition quotas."

Command training officers are highly encouraged to attend class at ATG upon assignment to duty as a training officer, as well as individual one-on-one training with the FTLO staff to receive instruction on command requirements and tracking programs such as the Fleet Training Management and Planning System (FLTMPS) that will identify all critical and essential NEC requirements, and all current and future deficiencies in any particular training area, along with eNTRS training.

"When training officers or school coordinators are unable to obtain their training quotas using eNTRS, they can contact FTLO for assistance," said Merson. "Often, managing training requirements can be frustrating; requirements are not always specific to a particular platform. FTLO will assist with any questions regarding command requirements, available schools, class convenings or unique situations."

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