In this paper, I will target the challenges, successes, and lessons learned in my deployment during Operation Iraqi Freedom II, OIF-11, as a First Sergeant. Areas of emphasis discussed are security patrols and route improvements on the main supply...
This document showcases the American Soldier in both "lethal" and "nonlethal" operations in the war on terrorism. The first seven case studies are drawn from events in both Iraq and Afghanistan, two of the principal fronts in the war. Six of the...
This monograph addresses a common experience and training deficiency for operational planners in the United States Army. This deficiency is the planning of large scale road movements. The monograph postulates that three distinct problem areas arise...
The objectives of Engineer are to inform, motivate, increase knowledge, improve performance, and provide a forum for the exchange of ideas. Views ex-pressed are those of the authors and not those of the Department of Defense or its elements. The...
Road nets provide the life-blood to all sustained operations by a US Army maneuver brigade. Joint Readiness Training Center and Battle Command Training Program trends indicate a failure to master the skills required to ensure road nets are not...
Sergeant Major Benjamin Moore Jr., served as an Infantry First Sergeant during Operations Iraqi Freedom. I am writing about my personal experience during combat operations from Al-Khidr, Iraq to Objective Raider. I will explain how one mechanized...
In this January 2009 interview MAJ Ed Twaddell, Infantry, discusses his deployment to Iraq as the company commander of Alpha Company 2-7 CAV in March 2004. MAJ Twaddell describes his movement into theater, the difficultly his company had upon...
Committee 8 Officers Advanced Course, The Armored School; Himes, Cecil; Krampitz, Charles T.; Heffelfinger, Hugo W.; Falls, Carroll M., Jr.; Stout, Morris C.; Boehmer, William J.; Plume, Stephen K.; Styer, George D.; Huddleston, James M.
This study covers the drive for, capture of, and withdrawal from Crailsheim by the 10th Armored Division during the period 4-10 April 1945. The main purpose in studying this particular action was to increase the knowledge of armored operations in...
MAJ Nels Hanson served as company commander with 1st Brigade, 1st CAV Division at Camp Taji during 2006 through 2008 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). In this October 2010 interview, MAJ Hanson discusses his unit's convoy route security...
This monograph examines the reason for supervision failures in the U.S. Army. History has shown that proper supervision is important to success and that lack of proper supervision often is the cause of failure. This monograph uses examples from the...
This report is of X Corps activities against the North Korean Army, launched in September 1950, with the 8th Army executing a successful amphibious operation at Inchon, and ending at the Chosin Reservoir, just prior to the Chinese intervention....
It was the blind leading the blind. A new command team. No previous OCONUS deployments. A former Marine as the first sergeant’s right hand man. Imagine a unit comprised of 65 Infantry soldiers mixing it up with MP’s, 31 females, 85 soldiers...
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...
The 3d Armored Cavalry Regiment (ACR) deployed to Saudi Arabia in September 1990. During the course of Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm its logisticians developed non-doctrinal combat service support (CSS) tactics, techniques, and...
In this interview, Major Matthew Archambault, US Army, Operations Officer, talks about his deployment to Iraq in 2003 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Archambault discusses his personal experience with pre-deployment training and the...
This operational-level analysis, focused on campaign-planning issues, identifies shortcomings in the counterinsurgency efforts of the government of Sri Lanka (GSL), as it continues its conflict against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)....
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...
This monograph seeks to determine the adequacy of current U.S. Army doctrine as it pertains to the planning and execution of attacks by an armored force in restrictive terrain. Many circumstances and possible threats will require the use of a...
This study examines a portion of the current US Army rear operation doctrine as it applies to the tactical level of war. Specifically, it compares the capability of the dedicated rear area tactical combat force (TCF) with an on-order tactical...