This paper recounts my experience while serving at EUCOM in Germany. I faced many challenges, but providing force protection to the installation was the biggest. The mission involved many agencies and sections and war was looming. I discovered that...
The CSM Theodore L. Dobol Collection contains several biographical and miscellaneous materials related to CDM Dobol’s military career. The textual files include photographs, transcripts of oral history interviews; a short autobiography; the...
The minutes of the Combined Chiefs' meeting at the major conferences touch on virtually every policy and strategy issue of World War II, from initial troop deployments to counter Axis aggression, through the debates about the location and timing of...
This paper will describe my first deployment overseas with the Minnesota Army National Guard. It will discuss the preparation and the training as well as the actual deployment of the members of the 34th Military Police Company as we supported the...
Recruiting has been a very rewarding experience. Initially, I viewed joining the military as a challenge and an opportunity. I now view my career path as a reward. Recruiting has afforded me the opportunity to grow from a field artillery soldier to...
This monograph examines the possibility of establishing C2W as Battlefield Operating System (BOS) for Force XXI. It focuses on emerging doctrine for C2W and Force XXI operations in order to evaluate the contribution of C2W in military operations of...
This pictoral history of the 786th Tank Battalion is thoughtfully dedicated to the memory of our comrades who died in combat in the European Theater of Operations March 1, 1945 - May 7, 1945.
This is a true story about First Sergeant Steven Stout who went almost his whole career
without ever facing any combat, but with the events that followed after 11 September
2001, that all changed. As a young kid growing up in Memphis, TN., I had...
The history of the Gatling Gun Detachment, Fifth Army Corps, is to a certain extent the history of the Santiago campaign. The detachment was organized on the spur of the moment, to utilize material which would otherwise have been useless, and was...
The historic interest of Yorktown is as great as that of any other spot on the historic Virginia peninsula. One of the oldest settlements of Virginia, it was once a bustling, prosperous village; but its progress was ruined by its unfortunate and...
This thesis examines intelligence operations conducted by Major General Rosecrans’ Army of the Cumberland during the initial phases of the Chickamauga Campaign (11 August to 16 September 1863). The thesis methodology is a detailed analysis of all...
Command and General Staff School (CGSS), Class of 1926
This book was compiled by the Class of 1926 from the Command and General Staff School, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. It includes illustrative humor, poems, and stories, "hoping it will make you laugh or weep...from a year of depths and pinnacles as we...
Provides an introduction to commissioned officer life including information on appointments to the Army of graduates of the United States Military Academy, the promotion of enlisted men, appointments from civil life, appointments to the Porto Rico...
This work is concerned with the Mediterranean Theater of Operations from the point of view of the staff section at Allied Force Headquarters for CA/MG (known as the Civil Affairs Section, Military Government Section, and G-5). It is based with some...
This document contains maps and sections on messages received (and who they were from) along with action taken from August 1, 1942 to October 31, 1942 during the Second World War. Plans are listed, as well as 'other action taken'; sections are...
"Ask a doughboy or an officer about 'over there' these days, and nine times out of ten his answer will be, 'Oh, what's the use of talking about it? Folks are tired of hearing about the war."
Our pursuit for rank is a full time occupation that continues until you retire. We all attempt to follow a “Career Map” that each branch of the Army designs. The Chemical Branch published a professional development guide to assist Soldiers in...