The E. Company 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment is perhaps better known as the Band of Brothers. The purpose of this brief is to provide insight into what these courageous men accomplished from the time they were formed as a unit through the end...
Thesis Statement: The extensive allied planning coupled with aggressive execution was critical to the success of the Normandy invasion and the allies’ defeat of the Germans in France.
Discussion: The Normandy Campaign resulted in the largest...
Ordered to war, Task Force (TF) Thunderbolt l-252d Combined Arms Battalion (CAB) mobilized, deployed and conducted Full Spectrum Combat Operations in Iraq. TF Thunderbolt learned new lessons, pursued the enemy with proven doctrine, adapted, and...
Approximately 2 years following the tragedy of 911, I was reassigned from Fort Knox, Kentucky (AC/RC), where I served as the Brigade S1 NCOIC intricately involved in the mobilization and demobilization process of the Reserve Component personnel...
The purpose of this study is to trace the evolution of airmobility in the U.S. Army. The integration of aircraft into the organic structure of the ground forces is as radical a change as the move from the horse to the truck, and the process is only...
CW4 Sawyer notes in his opening remarks that he had just recently returned from a deployment to Iraq while serving as a fixed wing aviator. During the course of his interview he offers several discussions and contrasts of his pre-mobilization...
A veteran of two deployments in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom - the first from February to June 2003 and the second from February to May 2005 - US Marine Corps Major Carlos Urbina, during his initial rotation, served as a communications...
This monograph examines the potential contribution of an airmechanized raid to operational maneuver in a NATO environment. Defining airmechanization as "the integration into the land battle of a major rotary-wing element," the monograph uses the...
This monograph examines a concept considered an abomination to some airmen - operational air reserves. The study is exploratory in nature: searching applicable theory, historical examples, and contemporary developments for insights on air reserves....
Information is given on the harbors, landing facilities, supplies, repair facilities, vulnerability (port security), industry, and health and sanitation in this port summary on Bombay.
This is the story of TEAM PEGASUS a twelve man Embedded Training Team mission deployed to Afghanistan in 2008.
We were to be trained as Corp level mentoring team. Our mission and personnel changed drastically once we were in country.
I was...
Section I contains a report on air and naval campaigns against North Vietnam and Pacific Command-wide support of the war from June 1964 to July 1968. It discusses command structure, Rolling Thunder Operations, Naval surface operations and Pacific...
CPT Toomer gives a detailed discussion of the operations of his Forward Support Company in providing support to Task Force Pegasus. Toomer notes because of the Forward Operating Base (FOB)-centric nature of his deployment, his unit's largest...
The possibility of local war is everywhere in the world today. It is most difficult to minimize the impact of an attacker's initial surprise attack, to seize the initiative, and conduct an effective counteroffensive. Here lies the problem in those...
In November 1914, British Indian Expeditionary Force "B" conducted an amphibious assault on the Port of Tanga in German East Africa. The British possessed all the tools required for success; they outnumbered the defenders almost eight to one, they...
When the United States Army found itself at a crux between the end of major combat operations and the beginning of stability and reconstruction operations (S&RO) in March 2003, executing coercive and cooperative actions simultaneously beget new...
During February 2005, our unit Aviation Intermediate Maintenance Troop (AVIM), of 3d Armor Calvary Regiment, Fort Carson, Colorado, deployed to Iraq in support of Operation Enduring Freedom III (OIF). Our mission was to support the regiment ground...
The study of military history provides a background for military leaders to plan for current and future operations. By studying military situations from the past, military leaders can better understand what actions were beneficial to the success of...
Ranger Lomell exhibited courage and bravery beyond the line of duty on many occasions while participating in World War II battles, such as the invasion of Normandy on D-Day, the Battles of the Brest and Cherbourg Peninsulas in France and the Battle...