A PRACTICAL knowledge of sketching is an important part of the military education of officers and non-commissioned officers. Wen maps of the country are not available, commanders try to obtain sketches as guides in marching, and in the selection of...
Soon after his redeployment from Bosnia, Robert D. Guy received the unwelcome news that he was slated to fill a vacancy with the soon to mobilize 1st Battalion, 293rd Infantry of the Indiana Army National Guard. The 1-293 IN was scheduled to...
Department of Observation; U.S. Army Field Artillery School
To teach the basic principles of operation and care of a storage battery and the familiarize the student with the terminology and definitions used in storage battery observation.
Department of Tactics-U.S. Army Field Artillery School
Artillery tactics is defined as the art of disposing artillery troops, guns, ammunition and communications in the presence of the enemy so as to apply its maximum fire power in such a manner as will assist the infantry in accomplishing its mission.
The purpose of this manual is to provide a guide to assist commanders in developing the firing and the assembly and transport elements of Honest John units whenever equipped with the lightweight XM33 launcher into efficient teams capable of...
LTC Mancini, an Army National Guard surgeon from Manassas, Virginia, discusses his experiences and insights gained from multiple deployments in the Global War on Terror (GWOT). Mancini had previously participated in a six month rotation to Bosnia,...
In this interview MAJ Mills discusses his deployment to OIF in 2004 as the S2 for 2-7 CAV, 3rd BCT. MAJ Mills goes through the processes that he and his S2 section went through in order to prepare for deployment, deploy, and successfully maintain...
In this interview MAJ Kuetemeyer discusses his experiences as a company commander for two different companies out of the DISCOM 4th ID during their deployment to OIF in 2004. MAJ Kuetemeyer was the commander of HHC as they got set up and...
MAJ Gary Joe Pruiett served as the Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force - Arabian Peninsula (CJSOTF-AP) Secretary of the Joint Staff (SJS) in Balad, Iraq during 2990 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). In this January 2010...
MAJ Gary Means served as a flight surgeon with the 82nd Airborne Combat Aviation Brigade in Kandahar, Afghanistan during 2007 and 2008 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF). In this February 2010 interview, MAJ Means discusses his unit's...
In this interview MAJ Miller discusses his deployment to Iraq in 2003 and 2004 with the 8th Finance Battalion, 266th Finance Command out of Germany. MAJ Miller's battalion supported the 2nd BCT from the 1st Armored Division and was assigned to...
In this interview MAJ Bonney describes his experiences in support of OIF when he became the rear detachment commander for the 92nd Engineer Battalion. MAJ Bonney discusses challenges he faced during his time as the rear detachment commander and...
In this interview MAJ Scott Gibbs discusses his experiences as a National Guard officer serving as an Inspector General (IG) deployed to Kosovo with the 29th INF and the 35th INF from 2006 until 2008. MAJ Gibbs describes the importance of being...
In this interview MAJ Whittenburg discusses his deployment with 10th SFG to Iraq in 2004. MAJ Whittenburg paints a very interesting picture of what life is like on a SF team and what kinds of missions they do when deployed. MAJ Whittenburg relays...