Infantry Magazine articles from March 2007

Infantry Magazine archives from March 2007

A century of training: applying the lessons learned.(Commandant's Note)
March 1, 2007... In April 2007, 100 years ago, the Army established the School Musketry at the Presidio of Monterey, California. This was beginning of the Infantry School. In this Commandant's Note I want to discuss how the Infantry applied lessons learned in...

Common core course to be requirement for captains' career courses.(Infantry News)(Captains' Career Common Core Course )(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... The Captains' Career Common Core Course (C5) will become required for graduation from all branch captains' career courses (CCCs) beginning June 1. The C5 provides a series of critical skills grounded in leadership, communication, composite...

Doctrine corner.(Infantry News)
March 1, 2007... The following publications have been published by the U.S. Army in the last three months: * FM 3-21.20, The Infantry Battalion, * FM 3-05.202, Special Forces Foreign Internal Defense Operations, * FM-I 4-93.41, Army Field Support...

Army launches wounded soldier, family hotline.(Infantry News)
March 1, 2007... At the direction of the Acting Secretary of the Army and Army Chief of" Staff, the Army has opened a Wounded Soldier and Family Hotline (1-800-984-8523). The purpose of the hotline's call center is twofold: to offer wounded and injured Soldiers...

PEO soldier tests improved parachute systems.(Infantry News)
March 1, 2007... Program Executive Office (PEO) Soldier is testing a new parachute system that the Army plans to use to replace the system in use since the 1950s. The new parachutes address increased weight requirements and provide additional safety benefits....

Army to field improved armor.(INFANTRY NEWS)
March 1, 2007... The Army continues to upgrade body armor to increase protection from bullets and fragments, and soon will field the Improved Outer Tactical Vest (IOTV) to Soldiers deploying to Iraq and Afghanistan. The IOTV meets Program Executive Office...

Picatinny designs new gunner armor: Picatinny Arsenal public affairs office.(INFANTRY NEWS)
March 1, 2007... The Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center at Picatinny Arsenal, New Jersey, has designed a new armor shield that provides much needed protection for HMMWV (high-mobility multipurpose wheeled vehicle) gunners in combat...

TSMs transition to TRADOC capability managers.(INFANTRY NEWS)
March 1, 2007... In November 2006, the U.S. Army Infantry Center began a transition of its Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) Systems Managers (TSMs) to TRADOC Capability Managers (TCMs) in coordination with the Army Capabilities Integration Center (ARCIC)....

Managing combat stress: the role of the battalion commander.(Professional Forum)
March 1, 2007... As the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan continue, more than 3,000 service members have been killed and over 21,000 wounded. Given the conditions of combat, multiple deployments and other related issues, units are showing more and more signs of...

A cycle or victory: manning system contributes to 'Spartan' success in Afghanistan.(PROFESSIONAL FORUM)
March 1, 2007... Victory proverbially has a thousand fathers, and the success of our brigade in Operation Enduring Freedom VII has well over 3,000. But a share of the credit also belongs to the system that brought the team together. The 3rd Brigade Combat...

Ethics and motivation: how a soldier feels during combat.(PROFESSIONAL FORUM)(Reprint)
March 1, 2007... The soldier engaged in combat is pervaded by a tumult of feelings, often in contrast with each other, conflicting feelings where passion tends to overcome reason, motivation and sense of ethics. An alternation of rational and irrational...

A commander's guide to the forward support company.(PROFESSIONAL FORUM)
March 1, 2007... Background The Army is making great progress in its transformation as it moves to a brigade-centric organization. Part of this transformation is the creation of forward support companies that provide logistics support to battalions and...

The hard choice: decisive points in counterinsurgency.
March 1, 2007... "This is another type of war, new in its intensity, ancient in its origin-war by guerillas, subversives, insurgents, assassins, war by ambush instead of by combat, by infiltration instead of aggression, seeking victory by eroding and exhausting...

A century of excellence: the U.S. Army Infantry School--then and now.
March 1, 2007... Throughout 2007, Fort Benning and the Infantry community will celebrate the centennial of the Infantry School. First established in 1907 at Monterey, California, the School of Musketry moved to Fort Sill, Oklahoma, from 1913 to 1918, before...

A history of the Infantry School: how Fort Benning became 'home of infantry'.
March 1, 2007... This chapter is an extracted portion (Chapter III: Sections 1 and 2) of a manuscript entitled "A History of The Infantry School." The history was written in 1931 by First Lieutenant Leroy W. Yarborough in collaboration with Major Truman Smith...

Improving Styrker gunnery training.(Training Notes)(Stryker brigade combat team)
March 1, 2007... With its riflemen, grenadiers, and SAW gunners, the Stryker brigade combat team (SBCT) rifle squad carries a significant amount of firepower to the battlefield. Two of its potentially most lethal weapons systems are the M2 machine gun or MK-19...

Principles for the small unit leader.(TRAINING NOTES)(versatility, aggressiveness and safety)
March 1, 2007... Recently, a former company commander of mine, who is now a tactical officer at the United States Military Academy, asked me what I would share with cadets who were soon to be commissioned. I reflected back to my time spent as a platoon leader...

Book provides additional insight into Bin Laden's past.
March 1, 2007... In an effort to make readers aware of street literature and Arabic books about Usama Bin Laden, Infantry Magazine is featuring a third in a series of review essays that will introduce American military readers to unique perspectives and...

The School of Musketry: two rifles that made a difference.(WEAPONS CORNER)
March 1, 2007... In the history of the U.S. Army Infantry School, progress springs from lessons learned, often from discovery of a new enemy capability or a technological gain of our own. Lieutenant General Arthur MacArthur established the School of Musketry in...

The War for Korea, 1945-1950: A House Burning.(Book review)
March 1, 2007... The War for Korea: 1945-1950, A House Burning. By Allan R. Millett. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 348 pages, $39.95. Some call the Korean War the forgotten war, but even less remembered is the five-year period preceding that...

The Gift of Valor, A War Story.
March 1, 2007... The Gift of Valor, A War Story. By Michael M. Phillips. New York: Broadway Books, a division of Random House, Inc., 241 pages, $12.95 softcover. The Gift of Valor is the 2004 story of a Marine who died trying to protect his buddies from an...

The Uncivil War: Irregular Warfare in the Upper South, 1861-1865.
March 1, 2007... The Uncivil War: Irregular Warfare in the Upper South, 1861-1865. By Robert R. Mackey. Norman, OK: The University of Oklahoma Press, 2004, 288 pages. Our present experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan tend to blind us to the realities of 19th...

Humanitarian Intervention, Assisting the Iraqi Kurds in Operation Provide Comfort, 1991.
March 1, 2007... Humanitarian Intervention, Assisting the Iraqi Kurds in Operation Provide Comfort, 1991. By Gordon W. Rudd. Washington, DC: Department of the Army, 280 pages, $34. Gordon Rudd wrote his doctoral dissertation on the humanitarian...