Infantry Magazine articles

Recent articles from Infantry Magazine

Correction.(INFANTRY NEWS)(Correction notice)
November 1, 2007... In the September-October 2007 issue of Infantry, Field Manual 3-24, Counterinsurgency, was mistakenly referred to as FM 3-14 in the headline to Major Jacob M. Kramer's article "The Two Sides of COIN: Applying FM 3-24 to the Brigade and Below Counterinsurgency Fight." We apologize for any...

New PT jackets make light shine.(INFANTRY NEWS)
November 1, 2007... Often when you hear about Soldiers and visibility, the stories are about trying to camouflage them in the field. However, when it comes to conducting their physical training (PT), our service members need to be seen. Soldiers often perform PT in the early morning or early evening hours when...

XM312: the machine gun of the future?(Infantry News)
November 1, 2007... The U.S. Army is considering replacing one of the U.S. Army's oldest weapons, the M2 .50 caliber machine gun, after more than three-quarters of a century of service. One of the potential replacements for the M2 would be the XM312.50 caliber Advanced Crew Served Weapon (ACSW). The XM312 is...

Transition teams and the NCO.(Command Sergeant Major's Corner)
November 1, 2007... We have all seen these Soldiers, in Iraq or Afghanistan, operating alone and unafraid closely with the Iraqi or Afghan security forces. They are on the streets of Baghdad, at remote combat outposts and everywhere in between. The NCOs and officers who compose our military transition teams...

Military transition teams.(Commandant's Note)
November 1, 2007... For the U.S. Army advising indigenous forces is not new. tom the Military Advisory Group to the Republic of Korea and the Military Advisory and Assistance Group, Vietnam, to the U.S. Military Group in El Salvador, the U.S. Army has trained indigenous forces to defend their countries against...