Leading the Light Infantry Brigade Combat Team's Military Intelligence Company.

We, as the collective Military Intelligence (MI) Corps must resist the urge to morph the Brigade Combat Team (BCT) only company grade "green tab" MI leader. the MI company commander, into just another staff officer.

 
   No leader ever managed a unit to take a hill ... they 
   were lead there. 

--General Nathan Forrest, U.S. Confederate Army

Under the current Modified Table of Organization and Equipment (MTOE) of a Light Infantry BCT, we have witnessed an incredible growth in the number of MI officers assigned to the BCT $2 shop. We are now authorized six officers within the $2 Section with expertise in multiple disciplines to include Human Intelligence (HUMINT), Signals Intelligence (SIGINT), and All-Source Intelligence (ASI). When coupled with the noncommissioned officers and enlisted soldier numbers, the team grows to twenty knowledge hungry intelligence professionals. This group, which now includes the Analysis …