In my opinion, Army spending is a major ethical issue facing the Army today. Soldiers are not receiving what they should for the amount of money the Army has been spending since the global war on terror started in 2001. With this in mind, I would...
MAJ Josh Gillen served as the headquarters and headquarters company (HHC) commander for Alpha Company, 82nd Signal Battalion in Bagram, Afghanistan during 2007 and 2008 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF). In the second of two February...
This manual is intended to prescribe the duties to be performed by the personnel manning antiaircraft machine guns, and to explain the mechanical action of the gun and the workings of related materiel so that antiaircraft machine-gun equipment.
The following paper is about the experience of replacing the 507th Maintenance Company’s First Sergeant after the ambush at An Nasiriyah. The story takes you from my deployment to Iraq to the redeployment of 507th to Fort Bliss, Texas. In April...
African-American Soldiers have remained vigilant and on-point since receiving the right to serve. From the Buffalo Soldiers to the Tuskegee Airmen African-American Soldiers have served their country served in many wars and conflicts with pride....
This argumentative essay will analyze the relationships between
history, theory, and doctrine in the evolution of military tactics on the battlefield in
support of WWII and the Korean War. This essay will illustrate that when you analyze
History,...
The U.S. military forces cannot fight a large-scale conflict today without relying on the National Guard units and the Reserves. The National Guard--the oldest component of America's armed forces--has contributed in every major military campaign in...
Brock, Lemuell; Dampier, Gustavus D.; Gause, Emmit B.; Jenkins, Christopher L.; Johnson, Carolina
The role of training and mobilizing the National Guard (NG) for combat in defense of our nation is incredibly diverse. This paper will dissect the command challenges, mission and effects, both positive and negative on the active force, states,...
The 1st Armored Division 2nd Brigade Combat Team received a mission to deploy in support of Operation Iraqi freedom as a surge unit. The mission was to transform the 4th Battalion 27th Field Artillery into a Motorized Rifle Battalion to prepare for...
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...
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...
In 2003, the Army Field Support Command (AFSC) and the Joint Munitions Command (JMC), collocated at Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois, began a comprehensive oral history project aimed at chronicling a full-spectrum slice of the commands' role in...
In his second of four interviews, Major James Love, an infantryman converted to civil affairs, discusses his deployment as a civil affairs team leader in Echo Company, 96th Civil Affairs Battalion to the Kandahar and Chamkani areas of Afghanistan...
In this first of three interviews reference his Global War on Terrorism deployments, Major Greg Ford relates his experiences serving as the intelligence officer of 1st Battalion, 187th Infantry in Jacobabad, Pakistan, and Paktia Province,...
This study investigates the German spring offensive of 1918 to determine how the Germans achieved tactical success, yet failed to reach their strategic objective. The study covers the development of new German infantry tactics during limited...
Military support to law enforcement agencies is a key piece of solving the problem that exists along the southwestern border. Military support along the southwestern border has existed since the initial westward expansion of the United States....
This monograph examines the capabilities of the heavy division (Armor and Mechanized Infantry Division) G2 and ACE to conduct collection management operations. It focuses on emerging ACE/ASAS concept of operations to determine if this system of...
Over the last decade the importance of Naval Coastal Warfare (NCW) to the United States Navy as a viable asset in the war on terror and conflicts in the Middle East is on the rise. Because the Navy’s focus during the decades between the Vietnam...
Tactical level nuances between COIN by an external and an internal actor are barely distinguishable. The successful COIN practices for an external actor listed in FM 3-24 COIN manual of US Army include maintaining a constant, forward presence with...
The end of the Cold War brought significant repercussions to the U.S. military. Budget decreases, force structure reductions, and the change in national security strategy from containment to engagement all led to a significant increase in USAF...