The Professional Bulletin of Army Engineers January-March 2005 Headquarters, Department of the Army Volume 35 PB 5-05-1 UNITED STATES ARMY FEATURES ENGINEER SCHOOL 4 Developingthe Right Skills and Tools- As a Team! By Major General Randal R. Castro and Lieutenant Colonel Paul L. Grosskruger COMMANDANT 7 Communication-The Key to Our Success Major General By Lieutenant Colonel Paul L. Grosskruger Randal R. Castro 9 Training leaders for Combat By Lieutenant Colonel Shawn Howley 11 IntegrationofTopographic EngineeringSkills and Tools-Providing Assured MANAGING EDITOR Mobility with C2 Systems Shirley Bridges By Mr. Ken Bergman CONTRIBUTING EDITORS 14 UsingTopographic Engineeringto Achieve Dominance in Urbanand Complex Terrain Karin Gan By Mr. Ken Bergman Cheryl Green Penny Moats 18 Warrior Ethos,Tasks, and Drills Spiral Into Initial-EntryTraining Kathy Webber By Major Janet Kirkton 22 TaskForce Trailblazer:ProvidingAssured Mobility GRAPHIC DESIGNER By Major Paul D. Harron Jennifer Morgan 28 lED Defeat: ObservationsFrom the NationalTraining Center By Lieutenant Colonel Thomas H. Magness 32 CounteringIEDsand Explosive Hazards Front Cover: By Mr. Robert G Baker and Mr. Dorian V. D'Aria Cover illustration by Alan 37 Heavy Rescue Operations During Operation Iraqi Freedom Speer - Multimedia Visual Information Service By Major Adam S. Roth Center 40 EODand Engineers"Closethe Gap" By Lieutenant Colonel Craig Jolly Back Cover: 49 Antipersonnel Obstacle Breaching System Photographs courtesy of By Mr. Bobby Skinner US Army and other sources. 50 Equippingthe FutureForce Sapper By Captain Michael P. Frank 53 Combat Service Support to the Future Engineer Force: A Modular Approach By Major Brian D. Slack 59 The FutureArmyTactical Fire FightingTruck By Major Mollie Pearson and Mr. Michael Bonomolo DEPARTMENTS 35 Personal Viewpoint - "Command and Control of 2 Clear the Way Construction Assets in Iraq" By Major GeneralRandal R. Castro By Lieutenant Colonel Jeffrey R. Eckstein 3 lead the Way 46 CTC Notes - "lED Defeat Training" By Captain Andrew Liffring, Captain Jason By Command Sergeant Major Clinton J. Pearson Railsback, and Captain Matthew Louvet (NTC) 25 Personnel Notes - "Officer Professional Development" Dedication By Chief Warrant Officer 4 Frederick Kerber 54 Personal Viewpoint - "Theater Engineer 26 Personnel Notes - "Enlisted Career Progression" 55 Transformation" By Sergeant First Class David Hatch By Colonel Gerald Lago January-March 2005 Engineer 1 Developing the Right Skills and Tools— As a Team! By Major General Randal R. Castro and Lieutenant Colonel Paul L. Grosskruger hroughout its history, the Engineer Regiment has A New Approach distinguished itself, time and time again, by its support Tto our Nation. And at this point in our history, we stand he doctrine, organization, training, materiel, leader together at a crossroads of relevance. We must select the development, personnel, and facilities (DOTMLPF) right fork in the road—that which takes us toward developing Tassessment approach has served the Army and the relevant skills and tools for our units and staffs. We must Engineer Regiment well and is the foundation for the future. quickly address capability gaps in urban and complex terrain. But we have to be much better at getting the skills and tools to We must ask ourselves “Do they have the tools they need?” our engineer Soldiers, staffs, and units to keep them “Are we skilled to accomplish the tasks required?” “Do we indispensable to the land component maneuver commander. have the right organizations?” It is up to us to seize the initiative Our focus needs to be on continual “gap analysis” of engineer and make this happen! support to maneuver in complex and urban terrain. This approach also continuously incorporates today’s lessons Challenges and Opportunities learned and provides refinement in placing the right mix of skills and tools into our Future Engineer Force. This concept oday’s landscape is changing by the minute. It’s filled focuses our limited resources, maximizes our use of with quickly evolving technologies, instantaneous collaboration across the Regiment, and sets forth short- and Tglobal communication, and increasingly complex urban long-term goals. population centers and terrain—together with highly adaptive, deadly, motivated, and elusive enemies who play by their own Skills rules. In response, the Army has begun to adapt to meet the We must strive to ensure that our skills are relevant today challenges with more responsive, specialized, modularized, and tomorrow and that they are indispensable to the land effects-based organizations or modules. These capabilities- component maneuver commander. We have focused our based modules—centered upon the brigade combat team, the efforts for years on engineer skills supporting maneuver in units of employment-tactical (UEx), and units of employment- open and rolling terrain. Operations in complex and urban operational (UEy)—are right for our Army. terrain—today and in the future—demonstrate the need for Taking the concept of modularity to completion will reduce getting better skills for our Soldiers and staffs to enable the number of engineer battalions. However, the Regiment mobility in conjunction with maneuver in such terrain. Soldiers you see as a result of modularity is not the Regiment of must first be warriors, fully versed in battlefield fundamentals tomorrow. Several Department of the Army-level studies have of “shoot, move, and communicate” and in expertly executing shown that future engineer requirements have actually their military occupational specialties—from the moment they increased. These requirements, coupled with numbers of leave one-station unit training (OSUT) and advanced individual engineer headquarters based on a “bottoms-up” process,will training (AIT). Sappers must be skilled in pattern analysis, ultimately require more engineer structure than we had prior change detection, search, reconnaissance, and terrain to modularity. At the brigade level is where we will mix and visualization. We all must be trained to expertly predict, prevent, match modules. From the brigade level on down, we will be detect, and avoid today’s improvised explosive devices (IEDs), better able to provide a full range of support to our Army and bridge the gaps, ensure security of lines of communication, to our Regiment. The message is loud and clear: “We’re coming and many other engineer-unique missions. Specialized training back!” such as the Sapper Leader Course, Urban Mobility Breacher xx Engineer January-March 2005 (need a caption) Course, search courses, and specialty courses must be maintaining lines of communication (ports, airfields, and roads), standards for our Soldiers and leaders. Finally, we must tighten logistic support areas, and lodgment areas. the linkage between our Soldiers, leaders, and staffs in combat and our institutional schools and laboratories. Skills must also Lessons Learned be linked with building future modular units. This must be a We cannot develop relevant skills and tools for our Soldiers, continuous approach where we constantly assess our current leaders, and units without incorporating observations, needs, skills and update the training of our Soldiers, leaders, and and lessons learned. Our manning and equipping strategies staffs. must be closely linked with the Total Engineer Force, continuously gaining feedback and sharing developments. It Tools is critical for our units to forward lessons learned and Our tools are—and always will be—our credentials and recommended solutions to our institutions, because they “stock in trade.” They are inseparable from our skills and the provide an incredible windfall of information to develop lessons learned from today’s operations and lead to the right solutions for better skills and tools. This not only yields better effects for our Army. As with our skills, our tools have been Soldiers and units but also provides invaluable feedback to designed to dominate open and rolling terrain. But today’s our concepts teams as we craft the Future Engineer Force. operations require our engineer tools to address the immense challenges of complex and urban terrain in addition to open Future Engineer Force and rolling terrain. We continue the massive efforts associated with We are finding major equipment capability gaps for our transforming the Engineer Regiment into a more responsive Soldiers and units in providing assured mobility in complex and effective organization for our Army. The future engineer and urban terrain. Some tools are out there—such as urban structure will provide more leadership challenges, breachers, mine detectors, specialized explosives, mine and opportunities, and professional development for our Soldiers search dogs, RG-31 and Buffalo armored vehicles, and and leaders than we have had in the past. Our Future Engineer reconnaissance tools. In addition, the Digital Terrain Support Force is a total, top-to-bottom design of the Regiment that— System and TeleEngineering Kits are making great impacts. All engineers must seek out and obtain these emerging tools. Is capabilities- and module-based. Much more work is needed in getting the right tools to our Brings to bear the entire Regiment. units and engineer staffs and making them more indispensable. Provides professional growth. Efforts in networked air and ground technologies to detect and neutralize explosives and other hazards are needed. Also, Mixes and matches the right effects for the operation from we need to pursue modernizing