As a reserve Training Support Battalion, we were given various roles including the preparation of deploying units to go to, KFOR & SFOR14, the peacekeeping mission in the Sinai, OIF, and OEF. Our responsibilities also included being Unit...
Lieutenant Colonel Timothy Lemons and Major David Sierakowski, both members of the Illinois National Guard, have served on active duty fulfilling a two-year tour of duty training various Reserve Component and National Guard units being mobilized in...
Lieutenant Colonel Timothy Lemons and Major David Sierakowski, both members of the Illinois National Guard, have served on active duty fulfilling a two-year tour of duty training various Reserve Component and National Guard units being mobilized in...
Reserve Component unit readiness is important because the Army cannot operate in any spectrum of conflict without mobilizing reserve forces. Major portions of the Army's support structure reside in the reserves. The current Unit Status Report...
This paper covers my various mobilization experiences and time training National Guards Brigades and Army Reserve Units in support of the War on Terror.
On January 20, 2003, I was instructing a math class at B. L. Ben Elementary School in Boyle, MS...
This is the final report of the Fedden mission to Germany. The mission was to visit research departments and engineering works in Germany to earmark plant, equipment, books, etc. suitable for a college of aeronautics. Other investigations included...
From January 2003 to January 2006, nearly 30,000 Soldiers deployed to Operation Noble Eagle, Operation Enduring Freedom, and Operation Iraqi Freedom received their training from the 3rd Brigade 87th Division. The Soldiers tasked to accomplish this...
The following describes some of the events, activities and accounts of what my personal experiences consisted of upon Mobilization as a member of a Training Support Battalion within a Training Support Division Headquartered at Camp Parks,...
The following pages describe my personal experience as a New Jersey Army National Guard Soldier called to Active Duty in support of the Global War on Terrorism under Operation Iraqi Freedom III between 24 May 2004 and 01 Nov 2005.
The rumbling of an impending deployment to Kosovo started somewhere in the vicinity of two years before the date we were actually scheduled to deploy. Having served in the Army National Guard for over twenty years I was not overly concerned. There...
On 11 September 2001, the Soldiers across the world reacted to the worst terrorist attack on US soil in our history. The Soldiers of the 78th Division (Training Support) overcame some unique challenges to during this crisis. The Non Commissioned...
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...
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 Coalition's success in Iraq will be defined by how well it balances the strategy of Rapid Decisive Operations (RDO) against the realistic requirements for post-conflict reconstruction operations. There are many questions posed about how the...
In 2007-2008 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major Brad Burns of the Kansas Army National Guard served as commander of the 731st Truck Company, based at Camp Adder, Talil Airbase, in Iraq. In this interview, he discusses his company’s...
In this first of two interviews, Major Bill Breeze, from the California National Guard (NG), talks about commanding D Company, 1st Battalion, 140th Aviation in Bagram, Afghanistan from August 2003 through May 2004 in support of Operation Enduring...
A team chief and later executive officer of 2nd Battalion, 305th Field Artillery Regiment - part of 3rd Brigade, 87th Division (Training Support) at Camp Shelby, Mississippi - from 2003 to 2005 Major David Pierce was responsible for the...
Major William Rom is a combat engineer with an ROTC commission. Posted to an advisory billet as an Active Component/Reserve Component soldier with the 187th Engineer Battalion, Rock Hill, South Carolina, he helped prepare several National Guard...
This study uses the past as a basis for establishing the need for mountain infantry units by comparing the combat operations of the 88th Infantry Division and the 10th Mountain Division during World War II on the Italian peninsula. An analysis of...