This paper is the account of the 168th Engineer Brigade's 2009 deployment to Afghanistan. It covers the challenges of receiving a new MTOE • implementing it, training it and deploying it within a 15 month period. This paper will examine the roles...
In the fall of 2004, 2nd Battalion 1st Special Forces Group deployed to Afghanistan for Operation Enduring Freedom. The Battalion performed its role running firebases, occupying border control points, and running combat operations with indigenous...
I was a First Sergeant in the famed Second Infantry Division from April 2002, until July 2003. Security measures were high on all military installations due to the frequent civil unrest in the Republic of Korea. Political tension was rapidly...
Operations and Readiness Directorate Office; Anderson, Gerald O.; Silano, Robert A.
This Department of the Army after action report deals with the U.S. Army involvement in and support of the Indochinese refugee program. Covering the period from 1 April 1975 to 1 June 1976, it focuses on the role of the Army Staff in crisis...
United States Air Corps Tactical School (Langley Field)
"The scope of this 1927 course in Antiaircraft Defense as taught at this school is to familiarize Air Corps commanders with the capabilities and limitations of the antiaircraft Service, and to assure coordination and cooperation between the Air...
This regulation describes the Army's real property master planning process. It establishes the role of real property master planning and its relationship to the Planning, Programming, Budgeting and Execution System (PPBES). It assigns...
This regulation: a) explains the Army Preventive Medicine Program; b) prescribes a comprehensive disease prevention and environmental enhancement plan of action for the U.S. Army at fixed installations and in support of field forces; c) establishes...
This regulation prescribes new policies, responsibilities, and procedures for Army military construction, including major military construction, unspecified minor military construction and Army family housing construction programs, and the...
Covers Military Entrance Processing Station (MEPS) operational policies, programs and procedures. It implements Department of Defense Instruction (DODI) 1145.2 governing personnel enlisting into the military and processing of Selective Service...
This regulation provides policies and procedures for the processing of enlisted personnel for training and assignment during both peacetime and periods of mobilization. U.S. Army Reception Stations (USARECSTA) and trainee and student Military...
Establishes policies and procedures for reporting absences, establishes procedures for special category absentees, personnel dropped from the rolls, and the surrender of military personnel to civilian law enforcement authorities. It refines policy...
This monograph addresses a perceived imbalance in U.S. Army tactical force structure between technical means of intelligence collection and non-technical means, specifically interrogators. It proposes to provide a judgment on whether or not, in...
Special Forces forward operational bases (FOB) are essential for mission and contingency planning as well as for the preparation, infiltration and exfiltration of Operational Detachment Alphas (ODA). Therefore, the defense of this command and...
This is a detailed study about the US Army Battalion surgeon. Emphasis is devoted to the reasons the Battalion Surgeon was disestablished in the 1970-1980 timeframe, why the position was reestablished in 1984, and the implications for the future....
This monograph investigates the organization and capabilities of the Army aviation support battalion and answers the question: Can the proposed aviation support battalion provide single source logistics to the divisional aviation brigade in...
Global instability has grown substantially following the end of the Cold War. Changes in Army doctrine, incorporating concepts like OOTW and versatility, are a reaction to this increased global instability. The shift in doctrine is driving the need...
Reconnaissance performance by battalion task forces rotating through the National Training Center is generally ineffective and frequently results in the task force's defeat during offensive operations. In the vast majority of battles, the decisive...
My father suffered the majority of his life as a 100 % disabled veteran; I was not leaning towards a career in the military. I chose the auto and diesel technology field, and started a business. My business relied on my experience, and the advice...