Humans have used traditional tracking "skills" to follow a quarry (human or animal) since the beginning of existence. "Visual Tracking, at its very basic level is the natural predatory hunting instinct of man." Even with this history, the...
The United States destroyer force underwent significant design improvement during the Interwar Period. The roles and missions of the destroyers evolved from WW I to the end of WW II, based on design and tactics improvements, as well as the overall...
The drug war in Mexico is entering its fourth year as of 2011. The level of violence has spread throughout Mexico raising doubts as to Mexico's ability to win and assert its State authority. The violence in the Northern part of Mexico causes...
The Bureau of Diplomatic Security (DS) is the law enforcement and security organization of the U.S. Department of State. As such, it is responsible for many law enforcement and security related issues within the Department of State. One of these...
"This is the story of an infantry division. The tale is worth telling because it relates how a group of Americans was formed into a fighting team and how the team remains even though some of the men who compose it pass on. This is the record of the...
Transitions in post-conflict environments from the means of violence to representative compromise are extraordinarily complex and fraught with risk. They require significant vision, planning, and detailed interaction among a wide variety of...
Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer was court-martialed at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, during September and October, 1867. This little chronicled event in the life of the well-known American soldier and Indian fighter is seldom accorded more...
This brief history of Marine aviation from 1912 to 1940 describes the efforts of Marines to secure their own air arm and recounts the early development of the Marine air-ground team. The story is drawn from official reports, documents, and personal...
Department of the Army Officer Education and Training Review Board
The Department of the Army appointed the Department of the Army Board to review the System of Officer Education and Training. The Board was directed to determine the adequacy of the present system of education and training of Army officers to...
Officer Personnel Management System XXI Task Force
The Officer Personnel Management System (OPMS) requires fundamental change. While there are basic issues of pressing concern today, the OPMS XXI Task Force believes that those issues must be resolved in the context of developing an officer corps...
CH (MAJ) Tommy Vaughn served as a chaplain with the 115th Combat Support Hospital (CSH) at Camp Cropper in the Victory Base Complex during 2008 and 2009 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). In this July 2010 interview, MAJ Vaughn discusses...
In this interview MAJ Crawley relates some of the organizational difficulties he observed resulting from the reorganization of the 38th CAB's Headquarters and Headquarters Company (HHC) into a modular aviation brigade headquarters prior to...
MAJ Shane Vesely served as a C-130 pilot and squadron commander with the 16th Expeditionary Special Operations Squadron (ESOS) in 2009 and 2010 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF). In this September 2011 interview, MAJ Vesely discusses...
MAJ Michael Adorjan served as an advisor with the 10th Mountain Division and also on various missions as a Special Forces officer to North Africa during 2005 through 2007 in support of the Global War on Terror (GWOT). In this August 2011...
MAJ Steven Neill served in the III Corps Staff Judge Advocate (SJA) office at Camp Victory, Iraq during 2004 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). In this October 2011 interview, MAJ Neill discusses the duties of the SJA, the challenges of...
MAJ Byron Trexler served with the 2nd Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment (ACR) at Forward Operating Base (FOB) Kalsu during 2004 and 2005 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and at International Security Assistance Force (ISAF)...
MAJ James Fisher served with the Illinois National Guard in Saudi Arabia in 2000, in Iceland as part of Operation Northern Viking in 2001, and at the US Embassy in Poland as part of an Office of Defense Cooperation (ODC) mission, all in support of...