PB 7-14-1 COL ROBERT E. CHOPPA Commandant, U.S. Army Infantry School JANUARY-MARCH 2014 Volume 103, Number 1 RUSSELL A. ENO Editor FEATURES MICHELLE J. ROWAN 26 THE LEADERSHIP IMPERATIVE: A CASE STUDY IN MISSION COMMAND Deputy Editor CPT Thomas E. Meyer 34 LEFT BEHIND: A REAR-D COMMANDER’S EXPERIENCE CPT Marcus B. Forrester 38 TRUST: A DECISIVE POINT IN COIN OPERATIONS LTC Aaron A. Bazin DEPARTMENTS 1 COMMANDANT’S NOTE FRONT COVER: 2 INFANTRY NEWS A U.S. Soldier with Charlie 7 PROFESSIONAL FORUM Company, 2nd Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment 7 DNNE FUSES INFANTRYMEN’S CAPABILITIES WITH TECHNOLOGICAL “Strike Force,” 101st Airborne ADVANCEMENTS Division, leads his team during a night patrol in Parwan MAJ Jason D. Bohannon Province, Afghanistan, on 31 10 BRADLEY FAMILY OF VEHICLES TO RECEIVE UPGRADES March 2014. (Photo by PFC Nikayla Shodeen) MAJ Nayari Cameron 12 TTPS FOR EMPLOYMENT OF BRIGADE AND TASK FORCE ENGINEERS COL Jason L. Smallfi eld 15 INSIDER ATTACKS: REPAIRING A DAMAGED PARTNERSHIP BACK COVER: CPT Seth Hildebrand A Soldier with the 503rd Infantry Regiment, 173rd Infantry 19 TALK MORE SUSTAINMENT, LESS TACTICS WITH AFGHAN FORCES Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), signifi es to his fellow CPT Kyle Wolfl ey squad members to halt during a live-fi re exercise while conducting bounding and react-to-fi re scenarios at the 7th 22 MISSION COMMAND AT THE TACTICAL LEVEL: OPERATION DEADSTICK Army Joint Multinational Training Command’s Grafenwoehr CPT W. Paul Hill Training Area in Germany on 24 March 2014. (Photo by SPC Franklin R. Moore) 43 TRAINING NOTES 43 WELCOME (BACK) TO THE JUNGLE COL Brian S. Eifl er This medium is approved for official 46 TROOP TAKES TRAINING UNDERGROUND dissemination of material designed to keep 1LT Brian E. Wildey individuals within the Army knowledgeable of 48 MEKONG DELTA 1968: COUNTERINSURGENCY THEN AND NOW current and emerging developments within Russell A. Eno their areas of expertise for the purpose of 52 BOOK REVIEWS enhancing their professional development. 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. 1406301 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 “THESE ARE MY CREDENTIALS” ome of the most bitter fi ghting of World War II in subterranean fi ght may well France centered on the city of Brest, whose port be in the subway tunnels, Sfacilities were essential to sustaining our invading sewers, and passages of armies. Barely two months after the Allied landings at urban areas such as we Normandy, General George Patton’s Third U.S. Army isolated saw in Berlin and Stalingrad German forces on the Brittany peninsula, and the U.S. VIII during World War II. Corps was diverted to there to secure the port before the We are already fielding Germans could destroy the harbor facilities as they had at initiatives to prepare for Cherbourg. After prolonged house-to-house fi ghting, elements the subterranean fight, of the U.S. 8th Infantry Division captured the headquarters and the database we of German Lieutenant General Hermann-Bernhard Ramcke. have assembled includes The Assistant 8th Infantry Division Commander BG Charles material as diverse as the D.W. Canham confronted Ramcke to demand his surrender. Ottoman siege of Vienna Stalling for time as his last report from Fortress Brest was in 1529, tunneling operations duringd i our own Civil Ci il War W and d being wired to Berlin from an adjacent room, Ramcke in World War I, Vietcong tunnel complexes, North Korean demanded that BG Canham show him some credentials excavations to move men and materiel, and drug-related as a condition of the surrender. Gesturing toward the well- tunneling along the Mexican border. armed and grimly determined U.S. Infantrymen who had We are the best Army in the world because of the initiative, accompanied him, Canham simply replied: “These are my professionalism, and selfl ess service of our NCO Corps, and credentials.” Fortress Brest had fallen. The New York Times one way we prepare our Soldiers and leaders for the new reported an account of the event, and BG Canham’s superb challenges of future wars is by increasing the rigor of courses tribute to the U.S. Infantryman later became the motto of the at the Infantry School. Demolitions and combatives training 8th Infantry Division. are again part of the Ranger School program of instruction Credentials may take many forms, but the bottom line (POI), Offi cer Candidate School will include tougher physical is that they offer evidence which attests to one’s authority, training standards, Advanced Situational Awareness (ASA) confi dence, or credit. To members of our profession, the is now part of a number of courses (including Sniper School most common and earliest credential to be attained is a and the Infantry Basic Offi cer Leader Course), and ASA, copy of one’s enlistment orders, an academic degree, or a already taught by largely civilian cadre, is evolving to where commission in the armed forces of our nation. Qualifi cation the course will develop Soldier instructors and facilitate ASA badges, certifi cates of professional training, assignment and principles across the force. We are examining ways to improve promotion orders, and other proofs of achievement reinforce marksmanship by considering the possibility of integrating the bearer’s credibility among peers, superiors, subordinates, some form of robotic human-type targetry into our small arms and adversaries alike. They tell people who we are and what training that will include a diverse array of target scenarios. we are made of. The credentials of the Army have been hard- We need to create more realistic and challenging scenarios won, often at staggering cost, but the nations we have liberated, that include moving targets at varying speeds and simulated defended, and in many cases rebuilt can attest to the reliability enemy fi re teams in engagements. We have also not forgotten of this nation, our people, and the U.S. Infantryman. But it the conditioning and bonding potential of the long-used is not enough to establish credentials; we must continually bayonet assault course and are reexamining the bayonet revalidate them because the challenges to our way of life training that was integral to how we trained Infantrymen from are continually changing in response to enemies’ doctrine, World War I through Vietnam and well into the Cold War. technological advances, and motives. The phenomenon we The challenge is great: continue to defend the nation, our hail as globalization carries with it yet newer opportunities for people, and our interests at home and abroad against an international crime, identity theft, human traffi cking, spread adaptable and implacable enemy at a time of increasingly of diseases such as Ebola, the MERS virus now in the U.S. constrained resources. Things are tough all over: our allies for the fi rst time, and uncontrolled immigration by groups and in the European Union and other regions have their own cultures whose values are incompatible with our own. problems, but one thing is certain, when the wolf is at the Today, we are examining a number of ways to instill in door, they will turn to the United States as they always have. our agile, adaptive leaders the knowledge, skills, abilities, They turn to us because our credentials are — and must and attributes to win on battlefi elds that we can only begin remain — impeccable. to envision. One of these will be underground, and the One force, one fi ght! Follow me! January-March 2014 INFANTRY 1 CROWS OPTION BOOSTS SITUATIONAL AWARENESS PEO SOLDIER hen SPC Zachary Cline found himself in a Taliban Wambush last summer, he was operating the .50 caliber M2 mounted on a Common Remotely Operated Weapons Station (CROWS) from the back of his commander’s mine- resistant ambush-protected all-terrain vehicle (M-ATV). His unit instantly began to fi ght its way out. In the fi rst moments of the ensuing chaos, Cline guided the crosshairs on the CROWS’ fi re control screen on what appeared to be a legitimate target. He paused, then cross- checked with his seasoned troop commander (TC) in the front seat who was able to see Cline’s sight picture on his own Driver’s Visual Enhancement (DVE) screen. Check fi re. “The order was given not to fi re, which in this theater is as important as fi ring sometimes,” said Cline, an Infantryman who was on his fi rst tour in a combat zone.