The professional study of military history is not enough to prevent the repetition of history. Human beings are systematically designed with flaws. As human beings; we are receptors that learn as we go. Thus, as we learn from infancy to adulthood;...
The contributions of the Signal Corps noncommissioned officer (NCO) are numerous in number and vast in depth and knowledge. Both men and women of the Signal Corps have observed the Army’s Values of:
Loyalty - Bear true faith and allegiance to the...
The noncommissioned officers of today can trace their lineage back to the earliest armies in history. The noncommissioned officers of America’s army were forged by the commander of the continental army, General Washington and General Von Steuben,...
From our inception, our Army Non-Commissioned Officer Corps has grown in credibility, capability, and technical and tactical proficiency in pace with our Nation. Starting from small groups of Corporals and Sergeants that were little more than...
ABSTRACT: Charlie Battery was out at the rifle range doing our yearly qualifications, and someone noticed a camera crew setting up behind our position. After we left the range we loaded all our equipment onto our trucks and banded all the remaining...
The purpose of this paper is to provide information relating to my recent deployment to Kosovo in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (KFOR) from July 18th, 2006 until December 25th, 2007.
During the 18 months of 2002-2004, MSG Aultman worked with 137 personnel for Standing
Joint Forces Headquarters Homeland Security. As a unit we trained to detour weapons of mass
destruction, mother nature’s natural disasters of Fires,...
This paper describes the complex process of training the Afghan National Army (ANA) in the ways of Psychological Operations during OEF 08. This paper includes the process used by the SFC Rod Quinn, the MTT NCOIC, and others on the MTT used to...
On September 11, 2001, terrorists attached the United States. As such, the United States military was catapulted into action. As a member of the United States Army and the senior ranks, I knew that I would have some part in the defense strategy of...
I am Patricia Santos, a Master Sergeant in the Army National Guard. My field is personnel. Though I have not yet deployed up to this point in my career, I have played a valuable service support role in the 29 years I have served National Guard by...
My military service started in March 1981 when my best friend and I enlisted into the Florida Army National Guard. I attended basic training and advanced individual training in Fort Gordon Georgia. I attended 36H which is a Dial Central Office...
This paper will describe some of the duties of the Security Forces (SECFOR) assigned to Task Force (TF) Phoenix V. I will also describe some of the key events, challenges and lessons learned during my deployment to Afghanistan during Operation...
Third edition of this document. Gives additional information not included in version dated February 1944. Discusses the types of unit and unit histories. Contains tables of known units, a roster of senior officers, a glossary of German...
The war in Italy required new techniques to deal with challenges imposed by topography, climate, road-net, the construction of its buildings and the location of its villages. Non-administrative portions of this document address those challenges. ...
Second volume of top-level directives issued by Hitler and the German Armed Forces High Command from 1939 through 1945. The directives of the later years of the war clearly reflect the change in the character of German warfare from large-scale...
Contains digests 1-24. Brief study of certain European trends and developments in field artillery furnished for general interest and to show results of the (then) present war.
Lays out the argument of the problem of international responsibility under criminal law and discusses German crimes in World War II, the Treaty of Versailles, the concept and classification of international crimes, the crimes of the Hitlerites...
Translated from original Japanese. Monograph deals with military operations in North China from the time of the outbreak of the China Incident in July 1937 to the outbreak of the Pacific War in December 1941. It discusses the China Incident to the...
Brings together all available information on the Japanese recruiting and replacement system. Covers conscription, call-up and officer procurement. Discusses the territorial organization of the Japanese Army, replacement systems, divisional and...
Volume includes additional data which have been accumulated on terminal ballistics and revises and expands upon data already presented in previous volumes of this series.