For approximately the past ten years, the Army has been engaged in large-scale counterinsurgency campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan. These campaigns have forced the Army to reevaluate how it approaches its role in advising host nation forces. This...
This publication supports the Army's Military Qualification Standards System, providing aviation commissioned officers and commissioned warrant officers the training and enrichment they need to pursue and enhance their military careers. It includes...
All three of these FA commands-the corps artillery headquarters, the division artillery, and the FA brigade-play significant roles in the Air Land Battle. They exercise effective and responsive command and control. They ensure the rapid, lethal,...
The following summary of the duties of battery officers, NCO's, and specially selected privates is designed primarily for garrison (post or cantonment) use, and includes only administrative functions.
This ARTEP Mission Training Plan (MTP) is a descriptive training plan designed for to provide a complete tactical training and evaluation guide your unit. It provides guidance on "what to" as well as "how to" train. The specific details of your...
This special text supplements FM6-2, Field Artillery Survey. It is a guide for personnel whose duties include planning, supervising and performing field artillery surveys or training in those areas.
"This 1957 manual is a guide for artillerymen in the techniques of sound ranging and flash ranging, and in the application of these techniques to tactical operations."
This book of notes is designed to provide the artillery survey officer with a handy pocket guide to assist him in discharging his duties during field and combat operations.
The purpose of this is to show how the United States Army combined arms operations are necessary to obtain success on today’s battlefield. Combined arms operations have greatly evolved from the American Revolutionary War to today’s Global War...
This paper discusses the magnitude of war on Iraq’s economy and the stabilization efforts through continued peace keeping tactics. A look into the nation itself takes place, both prior to and during Operation Iraqi Freedom. Democracy is the...
Most Americans do not support further offensive operations in Iraq largely because of the cost. However, offensive operations should continue because freedom and security are not free and the price is necessary for global security. The effects of...
Few four-letter words in the English language can evoke the ice water down the spine electric shock of the word "lost". This phenomenon increases geometrically with compounding factors such as solitude, distance from friendly territory, weather and...
The objectives of Engineer are to inform, motivate, increase knowledge, improve performance, and provide a forum for the exchange of ideas. Views ex-pressed are those of the authors and not those of the Department of Defense or its elements. The...
United States. Army. Engineer Center and Fort Leonard Wood.
The Guidon came into being as a weekly publication in 1966 under the title Fort Leonard Wood Guidon. Between 1966 and 1987 the title was simplified to Guidon before becoming Essayons in 1988. The name reverted back to Guidon in 1999. It has been...
United States. Army. Engineer Center and Fort Leonard Wood.
The Guidon came into being as a weekly publication in 1966 under the title Fort Leonard Wood Guidon. Between 1966 and 1987 the title was simplified to Guidon before becoming Essayons in 1988. The name reverted back to Guidon in 1999. It has been...