The United States Army is made up of Soldiers from many different cultures. Citizenship is not a requirement to join the military, so people enlist from all over the United States and many countries around the world. The Army has its own unique culture that is a conglomerate of the many cultures that make up its population. Each new Soldier is expected to adapt to this new culture and integrate as a member of a larger team. Helping new Soldiers make this adjustment as quickly as possible and with little difficulty is a challenge for new Soldier leaders across the Army. The primary challenge for leaders in the military is taking a group of individuals and turning them into a team. The structure used with the greatest success uses task-oriented instruction and is called Battle Focus Training. Once the main objectives are defined, they are divided into smaller sets. These smaller sets are known as collective tasks and are designed to be performed by small teams of soldiers. Each soldier is assigned one or more individual tasks that work together to accomplish the collective task. Training begins by teaching soldiers how to perform each of the individual tasks. At this point the emphasis is on the soldier as an individual. Although training is conducted in small groups, Soldiers are evaluated independently of their peers. Once individual task mastery is achieved, leaders get soldiers to begin working together to accomplish collective tasks. This battle-focused training method incorporates aspects of both individualism and collectivism to achieve the end goal. The most difficult obstacle to conducting initial individual training is the diverse backgrounds of all soldiers. In......middle sheet......brushes to better understand where some of my soldiers and their families come from. Family-oriented events can be improved to attract more Soldiers and families, regardless of their background. The United States Army is not a mirror image of the American middle class, but the training we do shares many things in common. Training is performed both individually and collectively to reap the benefits of both. The Army has done much to overcome cultural barriers in recent years, but there is still room for improvement. Many of the methods implemented by teachers in Managing Diverse Classrooms could be implemented to improve training and cultural awareness in the Army's daily operations. Works Cited Rothstein-Fisch, C. & Trumbull, E. (2008). Manage different classes. Alexandria: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.