Infantry Magazine articles from November 2006

Infantry Magazine archives from November 2006

Gunnery training: the key to total weapon system proficiency.(Commandant's Note)
November 1, 2006... Today's contemporary operational environment (COE) is fast-paced and unforgiving. As a brigade combat team closes with the enemy and brings its firepower to bear, leaders must focus on hitting enemy targets while avoiding fratricide and...

USAMU looking for pistol shooters.
November 1, 2006... The U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit is looking for a few good shooters. The highly competitive unit is putting out its annual call for Soldiers who are interested in competing in pistol competitions in the summer of 2007. "We do this every...

Army seeks recommendations for MCOE patch, crest, motto.(INFANTRY NEWS)
November 1, 2006... The Army is accepting design ideas through March 31 for the shoulder sleeve insignia, distinctive unit insignia and motto for the Maneuver Center of Excellence (MCOE). The Infantry and Armor schools will collocate and become the MCOE at Fort...

Center announces writing competition.
November 1, 2006... Center announces writing Competition -- The Army Center of Military History invites Army officers in the rank of major or below (including warrant officers) to take part in the 2007 James Lawton Collins Jr. Special Topics Writing Competition....

2007 Best Sapper Competition set.
November 1, 2006... 2007 Best Sapper Competition set The Sapper Leader Course will host the Best Sapper Competition May 1-3 at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. The competition's events will include MOUT breach missions, weapons and grenade ranges, and a demolition...

Registration open for 2007 Bataan Memorial Death March.
November 1, 2006... Registration open for 2007 Bataan Memorial Death March -- Registration is now open for the 2007 Bataan Memorial Death March, to be held March 25 at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico. Participants may choose either the 26.2-mile route or...

Soldier who sacrificed himself for crew recommended for MOH.(INFANTRY NEWS)
November 1, 2006... FORWARD OPERATING BASE LIBERTY, Iraq -- Specialist Ross McGinnis could become the third U.S. service member to be awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Officials at the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry...

The need for a stryker master trainer in the SBCT.(TSM Stryker/Bradley Corner)
November 1, 2006... STRYKER MASTER TRAINER COURSE. This course is designed to train selected NCOs who assist unit leaders in planning and implementation of Stryker weapon, gunnery, and vehicle maintenance training. The Stryker Master Trainer Course trains basic...

Combined arms weapons proficiency for the HBCT.(Professional Forum)
November 1, 2006... As the Army transforms itself into a modular configuration, it is imperative that we look at the way we train gunnery to ensure that we provide the commanders of the brigade combat teams (BCTs) the tools necessary to train and evaluate their...

Preliminary and basic gunnery for the HBCT.
November 1, 2006... Field Manual (FM) 3-20.21 was written to standardaize the evaluation process for all weapon system platforms including Abrams tanks, Bradley Fighting Vehicles (BFVs), and armored high-mobility multipurpose wheeled vehicles (HMMWVs). Moreover,...

Truck crew gunnery.
November 1, 2006... Truck gunnery, originally conceived from FM 17-12-8 and later FM 3-20.8, was designed to train reconnaissance elements in the same crawl-walk-run methodology as other weapon system platforms. During the crawl phase, MK-19, .50 caliber, and...

Rifle squad gunnery.
November 1, 2006... When holding terrain or securing a foothold in an urban environment, no other weapon system is more important to the success of a heavy brigade combat team (HBCT) than the infantry rifle squad. For far too long the rifle squad has been...

Advanced gunnery for the HBCT.
November 1, 2006... One of the primary efforts of Field Manual 3-20.21 was to ensure that the emphasis for gunnery was placed on the advanced tables; to do so involved creating a paradigm shift in the table methodology. Therefore, the crew gunnery tables are only...

The Bradley Master Gunner Course and ARFORGEN.
November 1, 2006... The Bradley Fighting Vehicle (BFV) was introduced to the Army in 1981, and the first Bradley Master Gunner Course was established in 1983. The 10-week course, modeled after the 11-week Armor Master Gunner Course, focused on skill levels I...

Transition teams and operational integration in Iraq.
November 1, 2006... "We are embedding coalition 'transition teams' inside Iraqi units. These teams are made up of coalition officers and noncommissioned officers who live, work, and fight together with their Iraqi comrades. Under U.S. command, they are providing...

FSCOORD challenges for fire supporters in the BCT.(Training Notes)
November 1, 2006... This article first appeared in the November-December 2006 issue of Field Artillery. Today's brigade combat team (BCT) fire support coordinator (FSCOORD) faces many new challenges commensurate with BCT transformation and the evolving roles...

A case against battle drill six.
November 1, 2006... An overemphasis on training for close quarter combat CQC), or close quarter battle (CQB), in recent years has resulted in its overuse in combat, often in situations where more appropriate options exist. Platoon by platoon, the Army is...

AAEF: Air Assault Expeditionary Force campaign of experimentation.(Training Notes)
November 1, 2006... The Air Assault Expeditionary Force (AAEF) experiment is the Army s principal live, prototype, discovery experiment that began in 2004 at the direction of the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) and is in the third year (Spiral C)...

Co-witnessing lasers to optics: a faster more accurate way to zero lasers for the night fight.(night fighting)
November 1, 2006... I have searched the Army's manuals and Center for Army Lessons Learned (CALL) literature for a night-fighting technique that many infantry units use. I'll call this technique the "co-witnessing" technique for lack of a better term. I have yet...

Bayonets.(Weapons Corner)
November 1, 2006... Nothing embodies the spirit of the Infantry as well as the bayonet, and this extension of the infantryman has been in use at least since the early 17th century. It is the cold-steel aggressiveness of American infantry that has served and...

Germany and the Axis Powers: From Coalition to Collapse.(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Germany and the Axis Powers: From Coalition to Collapse. By Richard L. DiNardo, Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2005, 282 pages, $34.95 (cloth). There is certainly no shortage of World War II literature on the Allies' conduct of...

Military Power: Explaining Victory and Defeat in Modern Battle.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Military Power: Explaining Victory and Defeat in Modern Battle, By Stephen Biddle. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004, 312 pages, $37.50 hardcover. "Major warfare since 1900 has actually seen much less real change than most...

Given Up For Dead: American GI's In The Nazi Concentration Camp At Berga.
November 1, 2006... Given Up For Dead: American GI's In The Nazi Concentration Camp At Berga. Flint Whitlock. Cambridge, MA: Westview Press, 2005, 283 pages, $16.95. Recent scholarship on the Second World War has focused a great deal on the actions and...

Soldiering: Observations from Korea, Vietnam and Safe Places.
November 1, 2006... Soldiering: Observations from Korea, Vietnam and Safe Places. By Henry G. Gole. Dulles, VA: Potomac Books, 255 pages, $27.50. I became acquainted with Henry Gole as an author when I reviewed his work on our shared alma mater, the Army War...