This study deals with providing force protection for the Navy’s future, minimally manned surface combatants. Following the attack on the USS Cole, force protection became the Navy’s primary warfare concern. In order to add experience and...
In the summer of 2003, the USS GEORGIA (SSBN 729)(BLUE) returned to her homeport in Bangor, Washington. She had successfully completed a 91 day Strategic Deterrent Patrol, earning a grade of “Above Average” on a Tactical Readiness Examination,...
In the aftermath of the response to Hurricane Katrina in 2005, government reviews highlighted the need to implement a comprehensive Common Operating Picture (COP). The COP requirements were to provide the situational awareness needed to improve...
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...
This study examines the mechanics of black marketing by U.S. service members to determine ways to curtail or eliminate such illegal operations, which undermine U.S. national security. Actual court-martial cases of U.S. service members prosecuted...
This exercise, from a training and tactical viewpoint, consists of a series of exercises in certain phases of a landing operation, special tests bearing on elements of a landing attack or the defense against such an attack, a series of practices of...
Major John Giop served as fire support officer from May 2003 to July 2003 and as a howitzer battery commander from July 2003 to July 2004 with 1st Squadron, 2nd ACR in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. In this interview, Giop talks about the...
This SOP standardizes routine procedures; it applies to organic nad attached units alike, unless otherwise stated. The material presented herein is applicable without modification to both nuclear and nonnuclear material.
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 surface warfare community prides itself on having the most capable, best trained, and most proficient leaders at the Department Head (DH) level. This assumption stems from an age when the "Head of Department" was a seasoned, matriculated, and...
This monograph examines whether the current focus of Classroom XXI provides the adequate advanced military education necessary to prepare company and field grade leaders for the future battlefield. Technology has become the driving factor as the...
As Americans and US Soldiers, we cannot allow frustration and growing public discontent for the war in Iraq and Afghanistan to allow the US government to violate established world policies and international law. We should not treat and detain...
Contains World War I records for the 2d Army Corps; records of military operations over seas, records of services of supply overseas and records of military activities in the United States.
Volume II of two volumes. Consists of Phase III Field Exercises 1, 2, 3 and Phase IV adapted FM 31-5 with training circular. Remarks by B.G. Daniel Noce, Col. P.W. Thompson, and Lt. Col. L. P. Chase. The purpose of the conference is to develop...
Office of the Chief of Staff, General Headquarters American Expeditionary Forces, General Staff: First Section
The manual is a guide of supplies and equipment for the separate organization commanders of an infantry regiment and divided into two sections. First section is mobile equipment to be carried by the individual soldier, second section is the trench...