Infantry Magazine articles from May 2007

Infantry Magazine archives from May 2007

Combatives and conditioning: winning the close fight.(Commandant's Note)
May 1, 2007... The infantry fight is close, violent, and intensely personal. In today's contemporary operational environment we locate and destroy the enemy one room, one house, one street at a time. The global war on terrorism demands the best of the entire...

Not just another sporting event: best ranger competition is training for combat.(RANGER)
May 1, 2007... In July 1981, the Ranger Department was asked o design and conduct a "Ranger Olympics' in order to identify the best two-man Ranger team in the Army. The guidance was clear from the start--the competition should place extreme demands on...

PEO Soldier unveils new combat shirt.(INFANTRY NEWS)
May 1, 2007... The Army Program Executive Office (PEO) Soldier will soon provide an improved Army combat shirt to Soldiers deploying to Iraq and Afghanistan. The flame-resistant long-sleeved shirt, which retains the moisture-wicking capability,...

Bonus, incentives available for some captains.(INFANTRY NEWS)(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... ARMY NEWS SERVICE A new Critical Skills Retention Bonus of $20,000 is available to more than 7,000 regular-Army captains who agree to remain on active duty beyond their initial active-duty service obligation. The bonus is part of a...

Ranger Athlete Warrior: a systematic approach to conditioning.(75 RANGER RGT)
May 1, 2007... The training of combative techniques--like most of the Soldier skills we train--begins with conditioning. Functional, mission-relevant conditioning is the foundation of a warrior's readiness, and in this article I want to provide an overview of...

Teaching the long sign language: company Fire Support Officer capabilities in low intensity conflict.(PROFESSIONAL FORUM)
May 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Congratulations, Commander The day a company commander takes the guidon there will be much to think about. How to employ the company fire support officer (FSO) will probably not make the top of the list. Not long...

From blackhawk to Bradley: the 101st airborne in a mechanized role.
May 1, 2007... The versatility of the modern American infantryman is evident in almost every report coming out of Iraq and Afghanistan. Examples abound of young fighting men that adapt and persevere to overcome incredible difficulties, whether through...

Stryker unit deploys with land warrior: getting dismounted soldiers in the future network.
May 1, 2007... "Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men."--General George Patton, Jr. General Patton's quote tings true today and probably will as long as we have to fight our nation's wars. Warfighting is tough business and gets tougher...

Land warrior DOTMLPF and LUT results.
May 1, 2007... TRADOC Capability Manager (TCM) Soldier conducted a DOTMLPF (doctrine, organization, training, materiel, leadership, education, personnel, and facilities) assessment of the Land Warrior system with 4-9 Infantry at Fort Lewis, Washington, over...

Making MiTT work: insights into advising the Iraqi Army.
May 1, 2007... My military transition team (MiTT) experience began in November 2005. I was a junior major in the Combined Arms and Tactics Directorate (CATD) at Fort Benning, Georgia, and was selected to serve as a battalion MiTT chief to fulfill a...

Combat-focused combined arms training.(Training Notes)(military combat training)
May 1, 2007... In the confusion of battle, simplicity often decides success or failure. That statement is especially true when it comes to the connected issues of calls for fire (CFF) and close combat attack (CCA). Non-fire support personnel are by definition...

L21 analysts assist with information requests: Center for Army Lessons Learned.(TRAINING NOTES)(Lessons Learned Integration)
May 1, 2007... The Center for Army Lessons Learned (CALL) has strategically located a network of Lessons Learned Integration (L2I) analysts throughout the continental United States and abroad. The concept is for this network of military analysts to expedite...

Combatives: do we train as we fight?(TRAINING NOTES)
May 1, 2007... This article first appeared in the Summer 2007 issue of the Infantry Bugler. An Infantry Soldier enters a building and is immediately confronted by an angry, unarmed man who yells defiant obscenities in his native tongue. The Soldier...

How to choose proper running shoes.(TRAINING NOTES)(Reprint)
May 1, 2007... This article first appeared in the Army Physical Fitness Research Institute's April 2007 newsletter. Choosing the proper running shoe can make the difference between enjoying running or hating it, running in comfort or in pain, and staying...

The Secrets of Inchon: The Untold Story of the Most Daring Covert Mission of the Korean War.(Book review)
May 1, 2007... The Secrets of Inchon: The Untold Story of the Most Daring Covert Mission of the Korean War. By Commander Eugene Franklin Clark, USN. New York: Berkley, 2002, 326 pages, $14.95. Although the Korean War is often referred to as "the forgotten...

Contract Warriors, How Mercenaries Changed History and the War on Terrorism.
May 1, 2007... Contract Warriors, How Mercenaries Changed History and the War on Terrorism. By Fred Rosen. New York: Alpha Books, 256 pages, $16.95. The first three chapters make a promising start in introducing the reader to the world of private military...

Commanding the Army of the Potomac.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2007... Commanding the Army of the Potomac. By Stephen R. Taaffe. University Press of Kansas, 2006. 284 Pages, $34.95. Continuing the "Modern War Studies" series by the University Press of Kansas, Commanding the Army of the Potomac by Stephen R....

Correction.(Correction notice)
May 1, 2007... In the January-February 2007 issue of INFANTRY, we failed to identify that the article "Dealing with the Iraqi Populace: An Arab-American Soldier's Perspective" written by Sergeant Mounir Elkhamri had previously run in Military Review's...