Major General John P. McLaren Jr., formerly the assistant division commander for operations for the 80th Division (Institutional Training), deployed to Iraq in 2005-2006 as commander of the Iraqi Assistance Group. Replacing the 98th Division as...
With 2nd Brigade of the 75th Division (Training Support) when the call came in December 2004 to deploy the following month to Iraq to work on a military transition team (MiTT) for a year, Major Paul Esmahan was assigned as a logistics MiTT chief...
Major William Welch is an operational research and systems analysis (ORSA) officer assigned to the TRADOC Analysis Center (TRAC). He was detached from TRAC to augment Headquarters, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) in Iraq starting in early...
CSM Tito Ortiz-Torres was the battalion command sergeant major for 1st Battalion, 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom from February 2003 to January 2004. His area of operations was initially in Fallujah...
In this second of two interviews, Major Steven Fandrich discusses being an Active Component/Reserve Component unit trainer for the 278th Armored Cavalry Regiment in Athens, Tennessee, from July 2004 through July 2006, assisting Reserve and National...
Major James Tenpenny deployed to Afghanistan in April 2006 as aide-de-camp to the commanding general of all coalition forces in country, Lieutenant General Karl Eikenberry. He spent most of his time circulating the battlefield with Eikenberry and...
While both air and ground based fire support have proven themselves to be an invaluable and overwhelmingly lethal force in conventional combat, they have struggled to deal with the extreme complexity, density, and constraints of the Urban...
The problem addressed in this thesis is whether the forward air control portion of the Tactical Air Control System (TACS) can be a viable force in a projected NATO-Warsaw Pact conflict given existing equipment and manning. Areas addressed included...
Field artillery must move rapidly as well as shoot accurately in order to do its job. An important argument as to the best way to move cannon has been, and still is, the argument of towed versus self-propelled artillery. The purpose of this paper...
Space operations are important to today 's Army and will be increasingly important to the Future Force. Currently, the Army has an opportunity to develop Future Force leaders to best utilize space to achieve full spectrum dominance. If the Army...
This study examined what U.S. Army heavy brigades should accomplish when conducting reconnaissance during offensive operations, what they actually accomplish, and why there is a shortfall. Doctrinal literature from the capstone how to manual FM...
The U.S. Army, after years of false starts and unfilled promises, is about to make good on its commitment to field an unmanned aerial vehicle system at the maneuver brigade level. Called the Shadow 200 tactical UAV (TUAV), it promises to...
Knowledge of the principles of camouflage is as important to the vehicle driver as proper vehicle maintenance. A badly concealed vehicle can draw a bombing or strafing attack, which is even more crippling than a poor maintenance job. In either...