.................................5 Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................6 Bibliography....................................................................................................................................6 Abstract “We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. For he today who sheds his blood with me shall be my brother.” (Shakespeare) Since there have been men walking this earth, there has been a seemingly inherent need to fight each other for one reason or another. The following monograph is a short snapshot back into the first three months or so of my first combat deployment (OIF 8-9) and a look at an event that has had an everlasting effect on the way I look at life now and how I finally came to deal with it. 1 Introduction My name is SGT. Travis Maynard and I am 25 years old. I was born in Norwich Connecticut on June 8th 1988 and I am an Infantryman in the United States Army. Growing up There really wasn’t too much I could see...
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...lived in Hartford,Connecticut, before joining the Force. You may be wondering why I choose to trust a delicate matter like this in the care of a stranger, but this is the best I can do in my present situation and I would have trusted this kind of project in the hands of my Husband who was my closest confidant, but I lost him to cancer on 20th June, 2006, 9 months after we got married, and my only brother has ruined his life with hard drugs, hence my decision to work with a neutral person if we can establish some trust between ourselves instead of confiding in my buddies back home so that this little secret can be preserved. Let me start by introducing my self. My names are Sgt. Monica L. Brown, I am assigned to 782nd Brigade Support Battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division[3]. I am seeking your assistance to evacuate the sum of $5,900,000.00USD (Five Million, Nine Hundred Thousand U.S Dollars) as far as I can be assured that it will be safe in your care until I complete my service here. SOURCE OF MONEY: I and some other high ranking officers made some deal on OIL BUSINESS over there in Afghanistan before my...
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...A dream come true for me LTC (P) Pete Owens, when I have been assigned as a commander of the 4th Armor Brigade Combat Team (ABCT). I have learned a lot for developing organizations and leaders at the Army War College and now I have chance to prove myself and my country that I am worthy of caring the responsibility. I have 30 days to prepare myself; therefore, I started with immediate assessment of the brigade. I have got valuable information’s from historical records, CALL and CAL assessments, conversations and observations with leaders throughout the brigade and division. I have never expected that the glare of 4th ABCT, will be overwhelmed by negative environment and influences. My primary task is to get all the negativity out, return the glare to the brigade and to ensure that it will shine at each follow-up...
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...As a former battalion commander of the 4th ABCT, I look forward to the challenges that lay ahead as the Brigade Commander. The 4th ABCT is currently not living up to its potential due to countless problems that plague the organization. The critical problem with the 4th ABCT is a lack of organizational leadership that`s resulting in Soldier loosing motivation and dedication to the mission. I plan to utilize Kotter eight step model to address the above concerns with the 4th ABCT. The end state for the 4th ABCT is to develop well trained, adaptable, organized, and dedicated Soldiers capable of answering our Nations call for worldwide operation in a complex and versatile environment. The 4th ABCT is plagued with countless problems that is the...
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...THE BRIGADE AVIATION ELEMENT/ AVIATION LIAISON The 101st air assault division has used the aviation planning cell for years to plan, coordinate and execute Air Assault Missions. It created a special bond between the two branches to include aviation and infantry. The Army decided to setup a Brigade Aviation Element (BAE) within its Brigade Combat Team (BCT) this plan, 101st did help Commanders realize the challenges of not having an assessable team of aviation Subject Matter Experts (SME) that could possibly make planning and coordinating for aviation assets a lot harder until integrating the BAE into the BCT’s. To completely function as a section, members of the BAE should be properly trained, understand their role, and know the importance of their mission and how it affects the planning of the ground scheme maneuvers mission. “The BAE is a planning and coordination cell whose major function is to incorporate aviation in the ground commander’s scheme of maneuver. The BAE Focus on providing employment advice and initial planning for aviation missions, unmanned aircraft system (UAS), air space planning, coordination, synchronization with the air liaison officer (ALO) and effects coordinator.” (TC 1-400, Brigade Aviation Element, 27 April 2006). Units within the Army would assume that the BAE take the place of an Aviation Task Force (TF), but in actuality the BAE is only in place to assist the BCT Commanders and S3 staff within the element. The BAE coordinates and supports...
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...The U.S. Army's 25th Infantry Division, nicknamed "Tropic Lightning," is headquartered at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii and is assigned to the Pacific Command. The Division of nearly 17,000 soldiers stationed in Hawaii, at Fort Wainwright and Fort Richardson, Alaska, focuses primarily on training for low intensity conflicts throughout the Pacific region. However, the 25th ID is fully involved in the Global War on Terror and deploys units in support of Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan and Operation Iraqi Freedom in Iraq. The Tropical Lightning Division underwent the Army's modular re-organization in 2006. The 25th Infantry Division now has four Brigade Combat Teams (BCT) and an Aviation Brigade. The 1st and 2nd BCTs have fielded the Stryker combat vehicle, and the 4th BCT is Airborne qualified. The division's shoulder patch, a lightning bolt superimposed on a taro leaf, was formally adopted in 1943. The colors of gold and red were those of the late Hawaiian monarchy. While soldiers over the years have jokingly nicknamed the patch the "Electric Chili Pepper" or the "Electric Strawberry," in 1953, the nickname "Tropic Lightning" was officially adopted. In 1921, the United States Army formed the Hawaiian Division to protect the islands and our growing interests in the Pacific region. On October 1, 1941, the Hawaiian Division was split to create the 24th and 25th Infantry Divisions. The 25th Infantry Division was stationed at Schofield Barracks, on the island of Oahu, Hawaii...
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...SUBJECT: Regionally Aligned Brigades/Forces 1. Purpose: To provide information on Regionally Aligned Brigades/Forces 2. Facts: a. Brigades, divisions and corps are assigned to combatant commanders from different regions of the world -- U.S. Africa Command, U.S. European Command, U.S. Pacific Command, U.S. Northern Command, U.S. Central Command, and U.S. Southern Command. Those forces, including active and reserve components, could be U.S.-based with some forces deployed to the region to which they're assigned. The level of forces in the region could be an entire brigade, as was the case during an AFRICOM exercise in South Africa this year, and during a corps-level exercise this year in Australia. Or, it could be as small as a two-Soldier advise-and-assist mission. Units assigned to a region could also be deployed outside their area, should the need arise. Units are not permanently assigned to regions. They rotate in and out of the various regions. While component commanders can get pretty much the tailorable and scalable force they need, when they need it, they should try to anticipate those needs in as far in advance to mitigate risk and delays and help the Army better apportion those assets, Huggins said. The primary goal of RAF is to prevent war by partnering with nations within the region, according to Allyn. Partnering can be military-to-military training, providing disaster relief and humanitarian assistance, and sharing intelligence and interoperability...
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...(QDR, 2010). As the United States military undergoes sequestration, we will become increasingly more reliant on the support of our strongest allies to deter our enemies and, if necessary, project the international will to our collective enemies. In order to fully understand their system, it is important to understand their current force structure and the radical changes they are making under Army 2020, their current manpower reduction plans, their equipment capability development and material development systems, and the documentation methods. British Military as our Strongest Ally Over the last decade, the British has been our strongest ally in Afghanistan and Iraq. Currently, the United Kingdom is one of only three countries with a brigade deployed to Afghanistan (US, UK, and Germany) (NATO, 2013). They currently have 7900 personnel deployed to Afghanistan which is more than 9% of the coalition total. As Force Managers, it is important for us to have an understanding of the force structure, personnel, and equipping plans of our strongest ally in order to have an appreciation of what they will be able to bring to a future conflict. As President Obama stated in the 2012 Defense Strategic Guidance, “Europe is our principle partner in seeking global and economic security, and will remain so for the foreseeable future” (DSG, 2012). Current Army Structure In order to understand the magnitude of the change that the British Army is making, it is critical to have a...
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...Battle of the 73rd Easting Headed due east on the afternoon of February 26, 1991, VII Corps was advancing with a front of four armored/mechanized divisions. In the center of this front, leading the way and conducting reconnaissance for the corps, was the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment (ACR). The 2nd ACR’s job was to locate the forward elements of the IRG divisions suspected to be in the area, fix them in place, then pass the heavy divisions of VIII Corps through their lines so that they could smash the elite Iraqi units with a single killing blow. It was a difficult assignment, made more so by the weather conditions. The winter of 1990/91 was one of the wettest on record in the Persian Gulf, and had been a major problem during the preceding six weeks of the Desert Storm air campaign. Now the wind was howling, causing a sandstorm that was grounding the Army’s aviation assets and limiting visibility to as little as a thousand meters. Air reconnaissance was limited mostly to signals intelligence data, which meant that finding where the IRG divisions were located, would be up to the 2nd ACR. Like the prairie horse soldiers of 150 years earlier, the troopers of the regiments would grope forward until they physically ran into the enemy, in this case the IRG Tawakalna Division. Generally known to be the best and most aggressive of the various IRG formations, Tawakalna was the unit that would bear the brunt of the coming battle with VII Corps. As 2nd ACR moved forward, the regiment’s...
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...Analyze combat and operational stress reactions (COSRs) Combat Stress Controlling combat stress is often the deciding factor between victory and defeat in all forms of human conflict. Stressors are a fact of combat, and you and your Soldiers will face them. Controlled combat stress can call forth stress reactions of loyalty, selflessness, and heroism. Conversely, uncontrolled combat stress causes erratic or harmful behavior that disrupts or interferes with the accomplishment of a unit’s mission. Any uncontrolled combat stress can impair mission performance and may bring disgrace, disaster, and defeat. The art of war aims to impose so much stress on enemy soldiers that they lose their will to fight. Both sides try to do this and at times accept severe stress themselves in order to inflict greater stress on the enemy. To win, you must control combat stress. The word “control” is better than the word “manage” to emphasize the active steps that leaders, supporting personnel, and individual Soldiers must take to keep stress within an acceptable range. This does not mean that control and management are mutually exclusive terms. Management is, by definition, the exercise of control. Within common usage, however, and especially within Army usage, management has the connotation of being a somewhat detached, number–driven, higher echelon process rather than a direct, inspirational, leadership process. Stress is the body’s and mind’s process for dealing with uncertain change...
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...2010 separated in to three deployments supporting different contingency operations. These deployments included Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) Jan 2005 to Mar 2006 with the 3BCT, 3ID as the Brigade Mobility Officer, OIF Mar 2007 to July 2008 with the 3BCT, 3ID as the Brigade Mobility Officer, and Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) Sep 2011 to Jan 2012 with the 45th Sustainment Brigade (SB) as the SB Mobility Officer. During all of these deployments while serving as a Mobility Officer regardless when I was serving in Iraq, Afghanistan, or Kuwait between the time periods I have noticed one thing has been remained constant despite the location or timing. Regardless if its Military, Civilian, or Host nations support everyone on the military installation misutilized the Air Force 463L Pallet. Government property which has an only authorized use and purpose as an intermodal asset to transport cargo by air. Observation 1: Air Force 463L Pallets used as tent flooring. Discussion: Many units did not have proper materials to use as proper tent flooring in order to keep tent floors dry. While deployed to hot and dry environments when it rains the ground quickly became muddy and flooded with water, without proper flooring tents can quickly became wet and uncomfortable. The 463L pallets are thick and heavy and work perfect to elevate the floor just enough to keep most of the water and mud out of the tents. As military units had air cargo delivered instead of returning the 463L pallets back to...
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...This would be one of many campaigns they participated in during World War II. The 299th Engineer Battalion would be inactivated again on 17 November 1971 at Fort Lewis, Washington, and then activated a few short years later in 1975 at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. In 1992 the unit would be assigned to the 4th Infantry Division. This would be a short lived assignment because on 15 November 1995 the unit would be inactivated again, this time at Fort Carson, Colorado. At Fort Hood, Texas on 16 January 1996 the 299th Engineer Battalion would be activated again. During the Army’s modular transformation, the unit would again be inactivated on 15 December 2004 at Fort Hood, Texas. On 16 March 2014 the unit was assigned and activated to the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division at Fort Carson, Colorado where it is currently...
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...Three companies in First Battalion were awarded the Valorous Unit Awards for the actions during this time. In 2003 the Third Battalion of the 187th Infantry joined 3rd Infantry Division in the Invasion of Iraq. For their actions during the invasion of Iraq the unit received their fifth Presidential Unit Citation. In 2003 187th Infantry Regiment also joined the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment out of Fort Hood, Texas which is now known as the 3rd Cavalry Regiment. The joined the regiment to aid them in combat missions in Husaybah,...
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...women’s rights is the one over females being in the infantry. The world is changing and with that comes a lot more responsibility for policy makers, and there is a great debate over women being on the front lines. Women have been in the Military for quite some time, but not in a front line type of role. I can see both sides of the argument; the one that wants people to broaden their views and accept women in the infantry, and the other side that sees at as more of a male type of position. There are many pros and cons to the Military allowing women in combat positions, and I believe that while women should be allowed to have a chance in the infantry, the standards need to be the same whether it is a male or female. When the Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta removed the barriers of women being in the infantry it opened up 237,000 jobs to women. Around 53,000 positions are closed to women by units, such as Brigade Combat Teams in the Army. Panetta said that “if members of the military meet the qualifications for the job- not reduced qualifications- then they should have the right to serve.” The same argument can be made for having gays in the military. I don’t believe that they should be excluded, but I do believe they should have to keep their personal life to themselves. I agree with Panetta’s statement saying that if they are qualified then women should be able to serve. And the Secretary of Defense also stated that if women were allowed in the infantry, it would gain them...
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...The remaining two apaches remained at Kandahar to provide base defense operations. The morning of 2 March 2002 the crews from the Killer spades woke and walked to the flight line expecting that today would be no different than before, uneventful. The plan was to launch in three teams, but the cold weather had wreaked havoc on the aircraft the night before. One aircraft had an auxiliary power unit (APU) that failed to start and another was leaking hydraulic fluid from its gun turret. The ground crews worked their magic on both aircraft fixing the APU quick enough to launch on time, while the hydraulic leak had to have a quick fix with double bubble. The cold weather delayed the quick setting glue drying and forced the teams to shuffle the order of launch. All three teams launched with plenty of time to carry out their...
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