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Armor School Points of Contact The Professional Bulletin of the Armor Branch, Headquarters, Department of the Army, PB 17-14-1 Editor in Chief Features LISA ALLEY 10 The Armored Brigade Combat Team 2014-2024: Improving Abrams Lethality Commandant by MAJ Robert Brown BG LEE QUINTAS 12 Integrating Live, Virtual, Constructive Enablers: U.S. Army in Europe’s Ability to Create a Blended Training Environment ARMOR (ISSN 0004-2420) is published quarterly by the U.S. by Bradley Joy, Edward Rykard and LTC Andrew L. Green Army Armor School, McGinnis-Wickam Hall (Bldg. 4), Suite 23 Cavalry Branch: a Redesignation for the 21st Century W142, 1 Karker Street, Fort Benning, GA 31905. by CPT Nathan A. Jennings Disclaimers: The information contained in ARMOR repre- 28 Reconnaissance and Surveillance Leader’s Course sents the professional opinions of the authors and does not by Nicole Randall necessarily reflect the official Army, U.S. Army Training and 35 ‘Confessions of Mediocrity’ Doctrine Command or U.S. Army Armor School position, nor does it change or supersede any information presented in oth- by 1LT Paul A. Brannan er official Army publications. 37 Knowledge Management at the Brigade by MAJ Thomas E. Laybourn Manuscripts and their accompanying figures become govern- ment property and public domain upon receipt in ARMOR ed- 40 Observations from the Opposing Force itorial offices. (The ideas within the manuscript remain the au- by CPT Andrew J. Rossow and CPT Amos C. Fox thor’s intellectual property and may be reused by the author, 45 How We Got Here and Where We Are Going: a Doctrinal Approach but the work itself — the particular expression of the ideas — to the Health of the Force passes to public domain upon receipt of the manuscript.) AR- MOR staff will make necessary grammar, syntax and style by CPT Keith Eisenberger, CPT J.P. Steadman and CPT Nick Knepp corrections on the text to meet publication standards and will redesign illustrations and charts for clarity and to standards as necessary. ARMOR staff may coordinate changes with au- thors in the interest of ensuring that content remains accurate and professionally developmental. As a non-copyrighted gov- ernment publication, no copyright is granted if a work is pub- lished in ARMOR, and in general, no copyrighted works should be submitted for consideration to publish. On occasion, however, ARMOR may wish to publish copyrighted material, and in that instance, individual authors’ copyrights will be pro- tected by special arrangement. As the primary purpose of ARMOR content is the profession- al development of Armor Branch soldiers, ARMOR prints only materials for which the Armor School has proponency: ar- mored, direct-fire ground combat systems not serving primar- ily as infantry carriers; weapons used exclusively in these sys- Departments tems or by CMF 19-series enlisted soldiers; miscellaneous items of equipment which armored and armored cavalry or- 1 Contacts ganizations use exclusively; training for all 19-series officers 2 Letters and CMF 19-series enlisted soldiers; and information concern- 3 Commandant’s Hatch ing the training, logistics, history and leadership of armor and armored cavalry units at a brigade/regiment level and below, 5 Gunner’s Seat to include Threat units at those levels. 7 From the Boresight Line Distribution: Approved for public release. Distribution is un- 8 From the Screen Line limited. Official distribution is made as one copy for each ar- 18 Saddles and Sabers mored brigade headquarters; armored cavalry regiment head- 53 Battle Analysis quarters; armor battalion headquarters; armored cavalry squadron headquarters; reconnaissance squadron headquar- 59 Reviews ters; or armored cavalry troop, armor company and motorized 60 Shoulder-sleeve insignia: 8th Cavalry Regiment brigade headquarters of the U.S. Army. In addition, Army li- braries, Army and DoD schools, HQDA and Army Command staff agencies with responsibility for armored, direct fire, ground combat systems, organizations and training of the per- sonnel for such organizations may request two copies by sending a request to the editor in chief. Reprints: ARMOR is published by the authority of the Chief of By Order of the Secretary of the Army: Staff, U.S. Army, and is in the public domain except where copy- right is indicated. ARMOR requests that reprinted material car- Official: RAYMOND T. ODIERNO ry credit given to ARMOR and the author. Direct inquiries to Ed- General, United States Army itor in Chief, ARMOR, McGinnis-Wickam Hall (Bldg. 4), Suite Chief of Staff W142, 1 Karker Street, Fort Benning, GA 31905. GERALD B. O’KEEFE Administrative Assistant to the Secretary of the Army January-February 2014, Vol. CXXIII, No. 1 1404201 Armor School Points of Contact ARTICLE SUBMISSIONS: Articles can be submitted as email attachments to usarmy.benning.tradoc.mbx.armor-mag- ARMOR Editorial Offices [email protected]. For all submissions, please include a com- plete mailing ad dress and daytime phone number. Editor in Chief Lisa Alley (706) 545-9503 SUBMISSION POLICY NOTE: Due to the limited space per Email: [email protected] DSN 835 issue, we will not print articles that have been submitted to, and accepted for publication by, other Army professional bul- Deputy Editor letins. Please submit your article to only one Army profession- Vacant (706) 545-8701 al bulletin at a time. Email: DSN 835 GRAPHICS AND PHOTOS: We will accept conventional Editorial Assistant photo prints or electronic graphic and photo files in no less Jenny Forte (706) 545-2698 than 300 dpi TIF or JPG format. (Please do not send photos Email: [email protected] DSN 835 embedded in PowerPoint and Word.) If you use Power Point for illustrations, please try to avoid the use of excessive col- Covers and Art Support or and shading. If you have any questions concerning elec- Jody Harmon (706) 545-5754 tronic art or photo submissions, contact Erin Wold. Email: [email protected] DSN 835 UNIT DISTRIBUTION: To report unit free distribution de- livery problems or changes of unit address, email usarmy.ben- [email protected]; phone DSN U.S. Army Armor School 835-2698 or commercial (706) 545-2698. Requests to be added to the official dis tribution list should be in the form of a letter or email to the Editor in Chief. Commandant (ATZK-DF) BG Lee Quintas (706) 545-2029 EDITORIAL MAILING ADDRESS: U.S. Army Armor Email: [email protected] DSN 835 School, ATTN: ARMOR, McGinnis-Wickam Hall (Bldg.4), Suite W142, 1 Karker Street, Fort Benning, GA 31905. Deputy Commandant (ATZK-DF) COL John C Hermeling (706) 545-2029 REPRINTS: ARMOR is published by authority of the Chief Email: [email protected] DSN: 835 of Staff, U.S. Army. Material may be reprinted, provided credit is given to ARMOR and to the author, except where Armor School Command Sergeant Major (ATZK-CSM) copyright is indicated. Request all organizations not affiliated CSM Michael Clemens (706) 545-3815 with the Department of the Army contact ARMOR for repro- Email: [email protected] DSN 835 duction/reprinting permission. Inquiries may be directed to Editor in Chief, ATTN: ARMOR, McGinnis-Wickam Hall 194th Armored Brigade (ATZK-BAZ) (Bldg. 4), Suite W142, 1 Karker Street, Fort Benning, GA COL Scott D. King (706) 626-5969 31905. Email: [email protected] DSN 620 ARMOR MAGAZINE ON-LINE: Visit the ARMOR maga- 316th Cavalry Brigade (ATZK-SBZ) zine Web site at www.benning.army.mil/armor/eARMOR/. COL David S. Davidson (706) 626-8670 Email: [email protected] DSN 620 ARMOR HOTLINE — (706) 626-TANK (8265)/DSN 620: The Armor Hotline is a 24-hour service to provide assistance Office, Chief of Armor (ATZK-AR) with questions concerning doctrine, training, organizations and George DeSario (706) 545-1352 equipment of the armor force. Email: [email protected] DSN 835 LETTERS Dear ARMOR, better support it. That cultivation of to focus wholly and solely on the doc- senior NCOs will pay dividends when trine and tactics of cavalry operations. In the article “Reconnaissance Train- they return to an operational unit. The result is an instructor who is an ex- ing: a Time for Innovation” (ARMOR pert in his craft and laser-beam-fo- October-December 2013 edition), CPT Also, Fox’s article does not address the cused on training future cavalry lead- Amos C. Fox asserts that the Cavalry increased number of non-armor/infan- ers. Instructors will, on average, con- Leaders’ Course (CLC) should be inte- try officers who attend the course, duct eight to 10 teaches annually, cre- grated into the Maneuver Captains’ which will be severely degraded if CLC ating unmatched expertise in the doc- Career Course (MCCC) for the purpos- is folded into MCCC. A typical resident trine and course outcomes. To com- es of expanding maneuver officers’ CLC class will contain a small number bine CLC’s curriculum into a profes- knowledge of cavalry operations at the of aviation officers from the Aviation sional military education (PME) course troop and squadron level. While I Career Course, as well as field artillery, like MCCC – which is required to train agree wholeheartedly with the pur- engineer and other non-maneuver students across a broad spectrum of pose of his article, I must disagree with branches – and this percentage is even subjects – will degrade this expertise. the proposition, as it will likely erode greater on mobile training teams. While the numbers will show an in- the effectiveness of the CLC curricu- These students come from various crease in “trained” officers, the reality lum. points in their careers, from pre-com- is those officers’ understanding of cav- mand junior captains and lieutenants Fox points out the relatively low num- alry doctrine will be greatly reduced to field-grade officers in squadron and ber of noncommissioned officers who from current CLC standards.
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