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Soldiers Shape Next Generation of Army Mc System PB 7-13-4 COL ROBERT E. CHOPPA Commandant, U.S. Army Infantry School OCTOBER-DECEMBER 2013 Volume 102, Number 4 RUSSELL A. ENO Editor FEATURES 20 RALLY POINT FOR LEADERS: BUILDING AN ORGANIZATION’S MISSION MICHELLE J. ROWAN COMMAND CULTURE Deputy Editor LTC Scott A. Shaw 26 AN AMBUSH IN SHIGAL DISTRICT: TACTICS AND TRIBAL DYNAMICS IN KUNAR PROVINCE Visit Infantry’s new website at CPT Michael Kolton www.benning.army.mil/infantry/magazine DEPARTMENTS 1 COMMANDANT’S NOTE FRONT COVER: 2 INFANTRY NEWS A team leader with C 4 PROFESSIONAL FORUM Company, 2nd Battalion, 4 CAPSTONE: STRATEGIC LANDPOWER FOR THE COMPANY COMMANDER 30th Infantry Regiment, and his Soldiers secure the rear GEN Robert W. Cone element of a dismounted CPT Jon D. Mohundro patrol en route to an Afghan 7 HINDSIGHT: BROADENING AND THE IMPORTANCE OF MANAGING YOUR CAREER Border Police checkpoint in MAJ Eric B. Alexander Nangarhar Province near the Afghanistan/Pakistan border 9 COMMUNICATING AT HOME: THE RELEVANCY OF INFORM AND INFLUENCE on 18 November 2013. (Photo ACTIVITIES IN THE GARRISON OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENT by SGT Eric M. Garland II) MAJ James Pradke 12 AMERICA’S FIRST COMPANY COMMANDERS LtCol (Retired) Patrick H. Hannum, USMC BACK COVER: Paratroopers from 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne 36 TRAINING NOTES Division conduct an airfi eld seizure during Operation Fury 36 CATS PROVIDES TRAINING ASSISTANCE Thunder on 21 June 2013 at Fort Bragg, N.C. Fury Thunder was an operation designed to prepare and train paratroopers SGM Charles Covington to seize and project combat power in a denied environment. 41 BRADLEY TRAINING AMMUNiTION (Photo by SGT Juan F. Jimenez) SGM (Retired) Derek D. McCrea 42 A SUCCESS STORY: ENGINEER MASTER GUNNER INITIATIVE SGM (Retired) Derek D. McCrea This medium is approved for official 43 JUNGLE RECONNAISSANCE AND THE PIVOT TO THE PACIFIC dissemination of material designed to keep 1LT Matthew E. Miller individuals within the Army knowledgeable of 46 GFP ACCOUNTABILITY: THE UNKNOWN GORILLA —PART I current and emerging developments within COL James Kennedy their areas of expertise for the purpose of 49 TRAINING FOR THE NEXT CONFLICT enhancing their professional development. CPT Dan Krueger 52 BOOK REVIEWS By Order of the Secretary of the Army: RAYMOND T. ODIERNO General, United States Army Chief of Staff Offi cial: INFANTRY (ISSN: 0019-9532) is an Army professional bulletin prepared for quarterly publication by the U.S. Army Infantry School at Fort Benning, Ga. Although it contains professional information for the Infantryman, the content does not necessarily refl ect the offi cial Army position and does not supersede any information presented in other GERALD B. O’KEEFE offi cial Army publications. Unless otherwise stated, the views herein are those of the authors and not necessarily Administrative Assistant to the those of the Department of Defense or any element of it. Offi cial distribution is to Infantry and Infantry-related units Secretary of the Army and to appropriate staff agencies and service schools. Direct communication concerning editorial policies can be directed to Editor, Infantry Magazine, 1 Karker St., McGinnis-Wickam Hall, Suite W-142, Fort Benning, Ga. 31905. 1332901 Telephones: (706) 545-2350 or 545-6951, DSN 835-2350 or 835-6951; email: usarmy.benning.tradoc.mbx.infantry- Distribution: Special [email protected] Bulk rate postage paid at Columbus, Ga., and other mailing offi ces. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Infantry Magazine, 1 Karker St., McGinnis-Wickam Hall, Suite W-142, Fort Benning, Ga. Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited. 31905. USPS Publication No. 370630. Commandant’s Note COL ROBERT E. CHOPPA INFANTRY TRAINING FOR TOMORROW’S CHALLENGES e are a nation at war, and will likely remain so for who will one day assume the foreseeable future. Our enemies have shown responsibility for their own Wthemselves to be innovative, totally committed, and security. Successful advisors implacable in their intent to target our interests at home and abroad. from T.E. Lawrence in Arabia We cannot afford to lose the initiative in this fi ght, and that means during World War I to Special we must build upon what we have learned even as we prepare to Forces and mobile advisory encounter an enemy with advanced weapons systems, technological training units in Vietnam, as upgrades, and changes to his tactics, techniques, and procedures well as British, Australian, that he hopes will reduce the advantages we can now claim. The and other allies’ teams in Commandant’s Note in this issue, the last to appear in the print African and Asian trouble version of Infantry, will outline a few of those fundamental strengths spots have demonstrated how threatened nations’ own forces can that have long sustained our Army and which will remain relevant be transformed to counter a communist or other localized threat to even as we exploit our future capabilities. their stability. The enemy we faced in Afghanistan, Iraq, and other locations Battles are fought and won by dismounted Infantry squads of may have lacked the industrial base to develop and fi eld his own technically and tactically profi cient Soldiers, and the strength of advanced weapons and materiel, but he has been able to receive our Army rests upon leaders who possess the initiative, skills, enough support from outside entities, covert state actors, and and vision to build those cohesive teams. The linchpin of this powerful non-state actors to present at least localized credible threats effort is clearly leader development. At the U.S. Army Infantry in the current operating environment. We can expect these sources School (USAIS) we are implementing an array of initiatives to of support to remain accessible to him as he struggles to execute train leaders, one of which is the consolidation of professional the asymmetric warfare that characterizes the current confl ict. military education into the 199th Infantry Brigade. This brigade has He is an adaptive and determined enemy, and our most effective become the Leader Development Brigade of three battalions and countermeasures to his acts of aggression are the close combat, 13 companies. The brigade will offer a collaborative, interactive fi re, and maneuver that only a dismounted U.S. Infantry squad can program with increased skill sets and leadership strategies. NCO, deliver. The squad is the tip of the bayonet in the war on terrorism, lieutenant, and captain professional military education will be for it is the squad that takes the fi ght to the enemy and grapples with combined under one brigade with exercises involving students him on his own turf, whether it is within diverse urban settings or from all three disciplines, and collaboration with other Centers of on other complex terrain of the current operating environment. As Excellence will encourage interaction that will yield even greater our enemy seeks to further extend the battlefi eld into sub-Saharan opportunity to share combat experience. Africa, Asia, or the Pacifi c Rim, we must be ready to meet his actions The inclusion of the decisive action training environment into our with credible, decisive force. Infantry Basic Offi cer Leader Course (IBOLC) scenarios will aid We recall Mao’s dictum alluding to the civilian population as the development of adaptive critical thinkers, and this initiative will the water in which the guerilla must swim to survive. Our current be augmented by training links to language, regional expertise, and enemy has long regarded indigenous populations as an environment cultural understanding. Even as we implement these improvements, to be cultivated, exploited, and — where necessary — sacrifi ced we will continue to increase the rigor in our courses by focusing in the pursuance of his objectives. His willingness to exercise the on tough, realistic, relevant threats. Earlier instruction has relied on latter option has cost him the willing support of populations he once PowerPoint presentations, and the Advanced Soldier and Leader dominated. Over the past decade our Army has become increasingly Training and Education methodology will replace those with the adept at intercultural operations that have elicited the support of the seminar environment of the adult learning model which increases people we are striving to liberate. Situational and cultural awareness dialogue between the student and instructor. Finally, integration of training and a diverse array of cultural awareness initiatives from the Comprehensive Soldier and Family Fitness program will focus language instruction to crowd sourcing techniques have enabled on strengthening the resilience of our leaders and family members. our Soldiers to better read the environments in which they work These proposed and ongoing initiatives will yield a quantum and gain useful intelligence on likely enemy courses of action. improvement in the readiness of the Infantry squad and the Army These efforts have also enabled us to enhance the effectiveness of team that comprises Soldiers, their leaders, and our family members. advisors and the training teams we deploy to train host nation forces One force, one fi ght! Follow me! October-December 2013 INFANTRY 1 SOLDIERS SHAPE NEXT GENERATION OF ARMY MC SYSTEM NANCY JONES-BONBREST hile deployed to Iraq, SSG Scott Harrison relied on the WArmy’s chief situational awareness system to plot enemy holdouts, mark known improvised explosive devices, and exchange command and control messages with fellow Soldiers. Now, his experience is helping shape the next generation of that system — the Joint Battle Command-Platform (JBC-P). “I think it’s brilliant that they’re using Soldier feedback to develop JBC-P,” said Harrison, who is now assigned to the task analysis branch of the Maneuver Center of Excellence (MCoE) Directorate of Training and Doctrine (DOTD). “I like the idea of getting guys [who] have just deployed and experienced the previous system, and then picking their brains about what changes need to be made.” Harrison provided feedback on JBC-P during a user jury held earlier this year by the Army’s Training and Doctrine Command Capability Manager (TCM) for Brigade Combat Team Mission U.S.
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