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US Army Engineer School By Order of the Secretary of the Army : 573-563-8080 I D$N 676-8080 PETER J. SCHOOMAKER COMMANDANT General, United States Army MG R.L. Van Antwerp Chief of Staff 563-6116 «ronen.vana ntwerp [email protected]/I> INCOMING COMMANDANT Official: MG Randal R. Castro 563-6116 #~~ I <[email protected] m l> ASSISTANTCOMMANDANT JOEL B. HUDSON BG William H. McCoy, Jr. 563-6192 Administrative Assistant to the <lVllllam.h.mccoy @us.army.mil> Secretary of the Army REGIMENTAL COMMAND SERGEANT MAJOR 0123204 CSM Clinlon J. Pearson 563-8060 Engineer (ISSN 0046-1989) is prepared quarterly <clinton.pearson @us.army.mll> by the US Army Engineer School, 320 MANSC EN DEPUTYASSISTANTCOMMANDANT Loop, Suite 210, Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri 65473 COL John (Pat) Leak e 563-8080 8929. Periodica ls postage is paid at Fort Leonard <pat.leake @us.arrny.mll> Wood, Missouri, and additional mailing offices. 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Our Internet home COMMANDER, 151 ENGINEER BRIGADE page is located at <http://w ww.wood.a rmy.mil/ COL Paul W, Kelly engrmag/emag_hp.htm> . 596-0224, DSN 581·0224 <paul.w.keJly @us army.mrl> DISCLAIMER : Engineer presents professional in TRADOC SYSTEMS MANAG ER tor ASSURED MOBILITY format ion designed to keep U.S. military and civil COL Robert Nicholson ian engineers informed of current and emerging de 563-4081 <robel1.ntChOlson @us.army mt/> velopments within their areas of expertise for the pur COUNTER EXPLOSIVE HAZARDS CENTER pose of enhancing their professional development. LTC Thomas T. Quigley Views expressed are those of the authors and not 596-0131 , ext. 38 142 those of the Department of Defense or its elements. <thomas t.qwgley @u$.army.mil> The contents do not necessarily reflect official US Army TRADOC PROGRAM INTEGRATION OFFICE-TERRAIN DATA COL David A. 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DIRECTOR of ENVIRONMENTAL INTEGRATION ADDRESS CHANGES for personal subscriptions Dr. Rebecca N. Johnson 563-4119 should be sent to the Superintendent of Docu <rebeccaj ohnson @us.army.mil> ments , ATTN: Mail List Branch, Mail Stop SSOM , Washington D.C. 20402. NGINEE The Professional Bulletin of Army Engineers July-September 2004 EHeadquarters, Department of the Army VolumeR 34 PB 5-04-3 UNITED STATES ARMY FEATURES ENGINEER SCHOOL 04 Assured Mobility in the Army’s First Stryker Brigade COMMANDANT By Major Heath C. Roscoe and Captain Kenneth Dean Mitchell Major General 08 Noncommissioned Officer Education System Structure Redesign R.L. Van Antwerp By Command Sergeant Major Clinton J. Pearson 09 Engineer Battalion Headquarters Company Operations MANAGING EDITOR By Captain Jerry McDaniel Shirley Bridges 13 Task Force Able Supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom CONTRIBUTING EDITORS By Colonel Christopher J. Toomey Nancy Baker Karin Gan 18 Engineer Mine Detection Dogs Cheryl Green By Mr. James Pettit and Captain Ronald J. Hughes Penny Moats 21 Operation Tunnel: Confined-Space Operations Within the Tunnels Kathy Webber of Chicago GRAPHIC DESIGNER By Captain David Noble and Captain James Allen Jennifer Morgan 26 Security Operations in Support of the Divisional Rear Area By Captain Bryan K. Sizemore and Master Sergeant James Duncan Front Cover: 29 The Engineer Command and Staff Course: A New Era US Army engineer of Leader Development soldier photos by Department of Defense By Major Craig Jolly Imagery Service – 30 Army’s Top Deployers Receive Excellence Awards Combat Camera By Mr. Henry H. Johnson Back Cover: 32 The Engineer Small-Group Leader The Soldier’s Creed By Major Chris A. Parks 34 The Survey Experience During Operation Iraqi Freedom By First Lieutenant Vilen Ayvazov and Captain Aaron Wolf DEPARTMENTS 37 Engineer Safety - “Hazards of Crystalline Silica” 02 Clear the Way By Mr. Fred Fanning By Major General R.L. Van Antwerp 38 Past In Review - “Terror on Flight 847” 03 Lead the Way By Major Ron Eschmann By Command Sergeant Major Clinton J. Pearson 36 Enlisted Personnel Notes - “Reclassification of Soldiers in Selected MOSs” By Major Ruben Matos July-September 2004 Engineer 1 Clear The Way By Major General R.L. Van Antwerp Commandant, US Army Engineer School reetings once again from Fort It’s exciting to see the direction the Army is Leonard Wood. Our stay here was going. We are well on our way to increasing the Gextended a few months, and Paula and number of Brigade Combat Teams to 43 in the I are thankful for the extra time with the Sol- Active Component. We are on our way toward diers here at the home of the Engineer Regi- growing the active force by 30,000 Soldiers, a ment. We will give it our best for as long as the job that will require all of us to be recruiters Army wants us to be here. We talk often about and retainers—a very important job. The Army Soldiers needing to be agile and adaptive, and now is moving in the right direction to make today’s we get a chance to model it. Major General Randy force more ready for tomorrow’s challenges. Castro and his wife Judy are ready to go as soon as We are growing the Army and paying for it out our change-of-command date is approved. Randy of go-to-war dollars. If we have to increase the is assigned as Acting Commander of Accessions end strength even more we will, but that means Command until the changeover. we have to recruit it and train it. Congratulations to all you sappers now au- Dr. Lenny Wong has written an article on thorized to wear the tab and to our Regimental “agile and adaptive” leaders and what the war Command Sergeant Major for this great achieve- has done to build these characteristics into our ment in recognition. I’ll let him tell you the details, junior leaders. You can find a link to it on the but I couldn’t be prouder. Engineer School Web site at <http://www.wood.army.mil/eschool>. Our challenge here at Fort Leonard Wood is to make sure our young leaders For you new commanders who haven’t had a chance to hear and Soldiers don’t lose sight of what’s key to success. We are looking at me talk about priorities, here goes: support for the war; initial- ways to empower them and allow them to retain ownership for their entry training—the top priority in training (meet the standards, education and actions. and fully resource it); training and leader development—all initial military training; recruiting and retaining the force; transforma- We are also working to build the “go-to-war and sustain-our- tion; and joint relationships. selves-during-war” mentality. In our initial-entry training environ- ment, we need to get rid of administrative time-outs when we are If you have any questions about these or other areas within the going to the field and practice what our Soldiers are experiencing Regiment, send your requests and questions here, and we will work when deployed. We will work improvised explosive devices (IEDs) the issues. You will see some new names on the Fort Leonard Wood into the field scenarios as much as possible. Convoys need to train team in this issue, and they come ready to contribute to the fight. like combat patrols because that is what they have become. Every My philosophy is that we need to continually work the mission and movement on the battlefield is a combat operation. I ask you to resources to find the balance and to get the “walnuts” done first and remember this in your training exercises at home station and our well. Where we have resource issues, we will make decisions in light combat training centers as well. As we incorporate the 40 warrior of the priorities. I would rather “do less with less, but do it much tasks and 9 battle drills into our standardized training here, we keep better” than “do more with less.” Sticking to excellence in basic one statistic in mind: approximately half of the casualties in Opera- fundamentals proves its worth in our training base as well as it does tion Iraqi Freedom are 21 years old or younger.