The National Guard's origins trace back to the militia of the first settlements in America. Since its inception in 1636, the National Guard has played vital role in the nation's defense from the Revolutionary War to the most recent conflicts in...
In early February 1996, the state of Oregon experienced the worst flooding in its recorded history following 3 days of rainfall measuring 12 inches. With record snow levels in the Cascade Mountains coupled by unseasonably warm temperatures, river...
This paper sets out to develop the necessity for a communications zone suitable of a defending force of 360,000 during the initial phase of an airborne attack via Alaska on the Continental Unites States. It will also show how this organization...
This study looks into the underlying reasons the Mormon Battalion was called, organized, and deployed. 1846 was an unsettling year for the United States and the Polk Administration. Possible war with Britain loomed over the Oregon issue, the...
The Small Arms Training Section (SARTS) is attached to the Joint Forces Headquarters of the Oregon Army National Guard has been requested by other Command units, throughout Oregon for support on marksmanship. The mission of the SARTS section is...
The Nafziger Collection contains a compilation of orders of battle from 1600 to 1945 with over 7000 individual pdf files. It began with the author's interest in Napoleonic Wars, and steadily grew to other areas because of the gaming public's...
This paper tells the story of the HHC 3-116 CAV (AR) mobilization. The timeline will begin one month prior to mobilization and end with the change of mission. I will include issues unique to the National Guard and problems facing all mobilizing...
I will try to relay the experience of the mobilization of 16 soldiers who made up the 2nd BDE Embedded Team Trainers (ANA). The timeline will begin one month prior to the mobilization and end with our departure to Afghanistan. I will include issues...
ABSTRACT-This is a paper concerning the federal activation of the 2-162 IN battalion out of Oregon, their mobilization experience, deployment to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom II, the redeployment back to Conus and Oregon, and the...
This monograph investigates Khalid Bin Waleed's seventh century (AD 633-634) campaign against the Sassanid Persian Empire in Mesopotamia to trace the evidence that substantiates application of modern characteristics of operational art. The question...
Today, as the US military prepares units for conflicts abroad and deploys forces overseas, it is instructive to examine how the Army coped with similar challenges in the late 19th century. This study analyzes efforts during the Spanish-American War...
In 1877 the United States waged war against the “nontreaty” Nez Perce. For four months, the war unfolded along a 1,350-mile trail stretching from Oregon to the Bear’s Paw Mountains in Montana. Masters of their weaponry and excellent horsemen,...
Volume II of two volumes, this narrative begins July 30, 1805 on the Jefferson River in Montana and follows the expedition from the Three Forks of the Missouri to the headwaters of the Columbia, back down the Yellowstone River and on to St. Louis. ...
This is an account of the North Vietnamese attempts to seize control of the provinces Quang Tri and Thua Thien and of the response of the Free World Military Assistance Forces. The period covered by the narrative is from the spring of 1966 to the...
A reprint of the second edition ( of History of Fort Leavenworth) brought up to date by Walter E. Lorence. The original covered the first 110 years of Fort Leavenworth's history and provided a chronology of events that covered the Westward...
The Uniformed Services Former Spouses’ Protection Act (USFSPA) allows state courts to treat military retirement pay as property for possible division in matters of divorce. The problem is that several military and veterans’ organizations...
During my deployment in OIF II, I was the First Sergeant for Delta Company 2-162 Infantry. The following paragraphs will explain my personal experience connected with my deployment. I will discuss the alert order, preparation prior to moving to...
This is a transcript from a taped oral history interview with SGM Dennis Thompson, former Vietnam Conflict prisoner of war (audio version also available in USASMA digital library). He was interviewed by MSG Ransic Refeus for the US ARMY SERGEANTS...
In this paper, the writer discusses the topic of medical marijuana in regards to ethical issues facing the US Army, as well as the entire Department of Defense (DoD). The discussion begins with a background of medical marijuana with issues related...
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...