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Airman Resilience Training (ART) may not be meeting its intended goals of promoting the resilience of deploying airmen and supporting the reintegration of returning airmen for two reasons:

1: Implementation of ART Varied Due to Logistics Constraints Placed on Briefers and Briefers' Oral Presentation Skills or Deployment Experience

• Briefers had limited time to convey the content in ART. Some briefers followed the slides closely or exemplified content with relevant statistics or anecdotes, as recommended in the training manual. However, no ART briefings included participant discussion, no airmen ever asked any questions, and most airmen appeared disengaged with the briefings, as exemplified by distracted behaviors.

2: Perceived Usefulness of ART Was Generally Low

• The ART briefing was delivered to airmen in tandem with a long list of required briefings, many of which occurred on the same date as ART. Therefore, many respondents felt they were inundated with information on the same day and reported "tuning out" to ART.
• Teaching resilience skills through a set of briefing slides did not seem to encourage active learning of concrete coping skills, but rather the passive absorption of information and discouraged active participation by audience members.
• ART was presented to all audience members in each session in the same way, without recognition that each audience included airmen with different deployment experiences, missions, or combat experience.
• Informants reported that the information provided within the slides was often vague, and the specific behavioral coping skills and topic areas they view as important were not covered.