Since the 1986 Goldwater-Nichols Act directed the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to develop doctrine for the joint employment of the armed forces, tactics, techniques, and procedures have evolved at different rates depending on the...
The purpose of this study was to investigate how the 1st Sustainment Brigade (SB) reduced customer wait time (CWT) in Multi-National Division-Baghdad (MND-B) from October 2007 to January 2008. A secondary objective was to determine what affect...
The 1 st Squadron, 9th Cavalry Regiment, "Headhunters", was ordered to establish a Forward Operating Base in the southern Maysan Province of Iraq. The purpose of the new Forward Operating Base is to provide a projection platform and sustainment...
Periodic summary of enemy trends. Looks at ground issues in Bougainville, New Britain, New Guinea and the Philippines, air issues with air operations and air strength, and Navy issues concerning naval forces, merchant shipping and barge activity.
Special Forces forward operational bases (FOB) are essential for mission and contingency planning as well as for the preparation, infiltration and exfiltration of Operational Detachment Alphas (ODA). Therefore, the defense of this command and...
In this June 2009 interview MAJ Shawn Umbrell discusses his 2006 deployment to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). MAJ Umbrell discusses his extensive pre-deployment training with Charlie Company as their commander and then just a...
This paper describes some of the lessons learned and my experiences during my deployment to RC East, Afghanistan, during Operation Enduring Freedom VIJ and VIII. I have tried to list events in chronological order. The NCO's of B-425FA were charged...
My personal experience paper will show that Soldiers must be diverse. Soldiers in today’s Army may find themselves fulfilling a different job than their Military Occupation Specialties (MOS) on the battlefield. The job they have trained for years...
Major Jon-Paul Maddaloni deployed as a part of a border transition team (BTT) in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom from January 2006 to February 2007. In this interview, Maddaloni discusses the transition team's predeployment training and...
This paper will illustrate a sequence of events that unfolded to meet a situational crisis in the Sangin District, Helmand Province, Afghanistan during my deployment for Operation Enduring Freedom in 2005-2006. I will illustrate the difficulties of...
This paper covers my six months in Mosul, Iraq as a First Sergeant of Comanche Company 1st BN 23rd Infantry, the first Stryker Brigade to deploy into combat environment. It starts, from when the company received the order to occupy a FOB next to...
During my deployment for the Global War on Terror from October 2005-October 2006, I was able to assist a unit that was tasked to close certain Forward Operating Bases and recover all classes of supplies. This was never done in previous wars or...
McGrath, John J., 1956-; Matthews, Matt, 1959-; Bruscino, Thomas A.
This work is the continuation and revision of a project started in 2006 with the publication of In Contact! by the Combat Studies Institute. The original concept was to present a series of military vignettes in a style similar to the widely used...
UPON NOTIFICATION OF DEPLOYMENT TO THE IRAQI THEATER OF OPERATION IN SUPPORT OF THE GLOBAL WAR ON TERRORISM, THE 1ST BATTALION, 6TH FIELD ARTILLERY BEGAN ITS DYNAMIC TRANSFORMATION FROM A FIELD ARTILLERY BATTALION TO A MANEUVER TASK FORCE. TASK...
My assignment prior to deployment to Iraq was a First Sergeant for the 3670
Maintenance Company. Prior experience was a Maintenance NCOIC for the 206th QM
BN, prior to that I was the Armament platoon sergeant in 3670 Maintenance Company.
This paper describes U.S. Army Airfield operations from May 2004 to May 2005 at Forward Operating Base Salemo in eastern Afghanistan (Khowst) near the Pakistan border. The non-doctrinal operation of the 870th Movement Control Detachment and its...
Bravo Battery 3-7 FA was a six-howitzer firing battery with approximately 85 Soldiers assigned to the unit. We received orders for a combat deployment to Operation Enduring Freedom-V (OEF-V). Initially, the Battery’s mission was to separate into...
From September 2005 through September 2006 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major Brann Calvetti served as the field grade commander of Headquarters and Headquarters Company (HHC), 501st Special Troops Battalion. In this interview, he...
MAJ Schwaiger provides many detailed vignettes about his experiences while working as the mayor of the Jalalabad, Afghanistan Forward Operating Base (FOB). He discusses in detail the planning and coordination needed to support the surge in forces...
In this interview, MAJ Alvin Tilley, US Army, Infantry; discusses his deployment to Afghanistan as a company commander in 2009 through 2010 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). MAJ Tilley discusses his pre-deployment training and his...