The recent transformation in the Army to a more expeditionary modular force, focused on brigade combat teams (BCT), has brought with it significant challenges to the engineer regiment. The simultaneity called for in the Army’s operating concept...
National strategic policy and strategic military leadership affected the engineer force structure over the last 90 years despite little change to the mission of the military engineer. Regardless of force structure issues, engineers performed their...
Decisive action by the United States Army places additional weight on construction units particularly in support of construction missions during offensive, defensive, stability or defense civil support authority (DCSA) operations, yet organic...
The many changes to the operational environment over the past nine years have resulted in the creation of new tactics, techniques, and procedures to maintain pace with the unconventional fight. These new tactics suggest a shift away from...
The purpose of this is to show how the United States Army Engineer has evolved greatly from the American Revolutionary War to today’s current combined arms operations. The method used is the contributions and impact of engineers since the start...
Documentation of Civil War engineer units is limited to personal accounts and to their achievements after the fact. Researchers would be hard pressed to find historical data on specific units throughout the duration of the war. For the most part,...
Ebrecht, Virgil L.; Burke, Steven T.; Klein, Robert M.; Schoppe, Lawrence A.
The Army will do whatever the Nation asks it to do, from decisively winning wars to promoting and keeping the peace. To this end, the Army must be strategically responsive and ready to be dominant at every point across the full spectrum of...
Ten years ago at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, I prepared for my first job as a Platoon Sergeant in a Light Equipment Engineer Company assigned to 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault). This is where my career became the most challenging because of the...
The objectives of Engineer are to inform, motivate, increase knowledge, improve performance, and provide a forum for the exchange of ideas. Views expressed are those of the authors and not those of the Department of Defense or its elements. The...
The United States Army is transforming to take advantage of improved and emerging technologies and to capitalize on successful business trend lines, especially the flattening of hierarchical organizations (Macgregor, 1997). The transition of the...
This paper discusses the use of support Military Occupational Specialties (MOS), at the Brigade Combat Team (BCT) level, within our Army today. BCT Staff, often even commanders, do not understand how to effectively use their support MOSs. From the...
The purpose of this is to show how the United States Army combined arms operations are necessary to obtain success on today’s battlefield. Combined arms operations have greatly evolved from the American Revolutionary War to today’s Global War...
The Army has always been a doctrine based organization. A key element used by every unit down to a company element is the Mission Essential Task List (METL). A mission essential task is defined in FM 7-0 (Training the Force) as a collective task...
The U.S. Army stands guard for the American people; there have been substantial changes to the Army military doctrine. The Army has changed from linear fights to the global war on terrorism. This is a different type of fight then the one the Army...
The Army has always been a doctrine based organization. A key element used by every unit down to a company element is the Mission Essential Task List (METL). A mission essential task is defined in FM 7-0 (Training the Force) as “a collective task...
The United States/United Kingdom Non-Commissioned Officer (NCO) Exchange Program is an annual event exchanging fifty Senior NCOs (E-6 through E-9) from the Army National Guard units with NCOs of the United Kingdom Territorial Army (UKTA). The...
This paper describes some of the key events and lessons learned during a training mission at Ft Bragg, NC in September 1998. I will give details of the mission in chronological order as I remember the events. I give significant discussion to Rough...
Historically, the United States Military has repeatedly been unprepared at the onset of hostilities and they have continued this trend with Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). The military continues to train our...
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...
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...