This study investigates the feasibility of consolidating the Air Force Fighter-Bomber and the Navy Fighter-Attack pilot training tracks. Excluding Navy Carrier Qualification training, the core training in these two undergraduate fighter training...
In 2015, the USAF plans to start its first class of F-35A Initial Qualification Training (IQT) students immediately following their graduation from Specialized Undergraduate Pilot Training (SUPT). This class will signify the beginning of F-35A...
United States. Army. Engineer Center and Fort Leonard Wood.
The Essayons, originally published as the Fort Leonard Wood Guidon in 1966 then as the Guidon from 1966 to 1987. Became Essayons in 1988 and remained that way until 1999 when it reverted back to Guidon. It has been and continues to be a record of...
This report includes amendments no. 1 and 2 to the landing table force of the 29th Infantry. It discusses the proper grouping and arrangement of vehicles and equipment for debarking sequence during landing operations.
This project examines the military ramifications of the emerging revolution in military affairs and the changing strategic environment. Assessing two strategic approaches, Joint Vision 2010 (evolutionary force design) and a rising advocacy of...
In the aftermath of Operation Iraqi Freedom I, the Marine Corps decided to reorganize and re-name the Combat Service Support Element (CSSE) to address perceived logistics shortcomings in the Marine Expeditionary Force (MEF). The Combat Service...
Information contained in this Civil Affairs document includes the following topics: Japanese objectives, problems, and methods (problem of Thailand's independence); military controls (seizing and forms of control); political control (Japanese-Thai...
This study is an examination of the Army's capability to conduct amphibious assault operations. The Army's post World War II experience is reviewed with respect to doctrine, changes in force structure and equipment, and training effort. A doctrinal...
This issue of Lessons Learned is a compilation of many facets of military operations which field commanders have judged to be important. The salient lessons learned contained have been selected form after action reports and other documents. Looks...
United States Military Assistance Command, Vietnam
The "Handbook for military support of pacification" has been developed as a basic reference document designed for use by United States forces, Republic of Vietnam forces, and Free World Military Assistance Forces operating in the Republic of...
United States Military Assistance Command, Vietnam
This is the Regional Force and Popular Force handbook for advisors which was used to provide pertinent data for the advisory effort at all levels, along with providing information which guided advisors to specific references concerning RF and PF...
Seeks to familiarize all personnel with Viet Cong (VC) techniques for improvising explosive mines and booby traps and with various methods used by the VC to employ these devices. Produced by U. S. Army Section, Military Assistance Advisory Group...
The purpose of this Lessons Learned is to analyze the enemy positions at Khe Sanh and to evaluate the effectiveness of various weapons systems against enemy fortifications. The enemy's tactics at Khe Sanh were somewhat different from those...
Previous issues of Lessons Learned have been concerned primarily with tactics and techniques in a purely military sense. The nature of the conflict in Vietnam is such that it involves many important military-civilian relationships and objectives...
Looks at search and rescue, giving detailed information on search and recovery operations and what air personnel can do to increase odds of survival and rescue. Produced by U. S. Army Section, Military Assistance Advisory Group (MAAG).
Imitative Communications Deception (ICD) is the deliberate intrusion on an enemy's communications channels for the purpose of introducing information, in a manner imitating his own communications, in order to deceive or confuse him. Analysis of...
Devoted to population and resources control conducted by two separate forces: the US 1st Cavalry Division, Air Mobile (AM) and the Republic of Korea Forces, Vietnam (ROKFV). The lessons learned covers the combined cordon and search operations...
The use of rockets has proved to be an effective method of attacking friendly installations. The purpose of this Lessons Learned is to familiarize personnel with the type of rockets employed by the enemy in South Vietnam, to review past rocket...
Seeks to review concepts of defense as practiced in South Vietnam (SVN). The enemy, his tactics, the terrain, and the weather are different from those previously encountered by US forces, but the defensive concepts, that have proven the most...
Fortified base camps are the pivots of Viet Cong (VC) military operations. Local force units tend to place reliance on numerous small base camps dispersed throughout their area of operations. The camps are usually extensively booby trapped and...