In August 2002 I was assigned to Joint Headquarters (JHQ) Heidelberg in Germany for three years. At that time I had been studding English at the Czech Language Institute to prepare myself for any mission the Czech Army would send me to. I was very...
This Personal Experience Paper (PEP) describes my deployment to Kabul / Afghanistan from 01/06/2004 to 02/10/2004 as part of the ISAF IV Mission of the Joint Headquarters Centre Heidelberg. I also describe the preparation for the mission and my one...
Basing is a critical component of American warfare, and the expeditionary posture of the United States military poses challenges to operational planners and logisticians alike. Force projection is a key requirement for the US Army, and the use of...
This book contains all known replacement units and lists their affiliations with units of the Field Army. Also includes sections on the replacement system and the known replacement units and affiliations of the ground organizations of the German...
I have served in the United States Army Reserves for 27 years. My enlistment time has consisted of four deployments. Two deployments were with a postal platoon and two were individual deployments. The deployment I will speak about is the one I am...
During the planning and major combat operations phases of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM, Colonel Russell Thaden was the deputy G2 for V Corps. Responsible for "ensuring that the entire staff was updated on the current intelligence situation" and for...
This monograph examines Joint Task Force (JTF) SUPPORT HOPE operations to determine if aspects of this crisis response apply to all U.S. power projection operations. It provides an overview of the crisis and JTF support of U.N. and NGO relief...
Throughout the Cold War the U.S. Army prepared to defeat a Warsaw Pact attack into Western Europe. With the fall of the Berlin Wall came the end of the Cold War and increased involvement by the U.S. Army in Military Operations Other Than War...
The thesis from which this abstract is drawn develops a doctrine for defense of a major urban population center by division and larger units. The scope of the paper is limited to ground operations. The limited use of tactical special weapons and...
The United States Army is tasked to fight and win the nation's wars and is fully equipped with the doctrine, tactics, techniques and procedures to do so. The military peace operations of the 20th century have shown that the Army is less well...
MAJ Andy Nuce served as Alpha Company commander with the 172nd Medical Logistics (MEDLOG) Battalion in Balad, Iraq and as the brigade property book officer (PBO) with the 30th Medical Brigade in Baghdad, Iraq during 2003, and as Alpha Company...
In this third of three interviews, COL (Ret.) Russell Thaden discusses his involvement with the initial invasion of Iraq in 2003 with V Corps in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). In this June 2011 interview, COL Thaden discusses that he...
This paper gives the historical background of a Military Police Platoon during the preparation, deployment, sustainment, and redeployment operations during Operation Joint Endeavor in the countries of Hungary, Croatia, and the current countries of...
This paper will briefly give the reader a look at the path that I took to become an effective and successful leader. It will tell you why I feel that serving overseas is more advantageous than serving in the states. It will also tell you how I was...
United States. Army. Engineer Center and Fort Leonard Wood.
The Guidon came into being as a weekly publication in 1966 under the title Fort Leonard Wood Guidon. Between 1966 and 1987 the title was simplified to Guidon before becoming Essayons in 1988. The name reverted back to Guidon in 1999. It has been...
An individual augmentee with V Corps out of Heidelberg, Germany, tasked for duty in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major John Lorenzen arrived in country in January 2006 thinking he was going to be assigned to the combined staff logistics shop...
Deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom from February through October 2003, Lieutenant Colonel Paul Perrone served roughly the first half of his tour as one of battle captain officers in charge for the V Corps Office of Staff Judge Advocate...
This paper investigates the role of planning management of transportation in deploying large forces by analyzing the VII (US) Corps' deployment in support of Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm in 1990-1991. The VII Corps deployed without...