PB 7-16-1 BG PETER L. JONES Commandant, U.S. Army Infantry School RUSSELL A. ENO Editor JANUARY-MARCH 2016 Volume 105, Number 1 MICHELLE J. ROWAN Deputy Editor FEATURES INFANTRY (ISSN: 0019-9532) is an Army professional bulletin prepared for quarterly publication by the U.S. 26 PROPERLY PREPARING FOR Army Infantry School at Fort Benning, Ga. Although it THE RIGORS OF RANGER SCHOOL contains professional information for the Infantryman, COL David Fivecoat the content does not necessarily reflect the official CPT Ronnie L. Cunningham Jr. Army position and does not supersede any information CPT Samantha Rieger presented in other official Army publications. Unless Producing Ranger-qualified leaders remains a top priority for otherwise stated, the views herein are those of the the U.S. Army Maneuver Center of Excellence and the Infantry authors and not necessarily those of the Department of School located on Fort Benning, Ga. Over the past three years, a consistent trend is that Ranger students struggle to Defense or any element of it. successfully complete the Ranger Physical Assessment (RPA), the 12-mile foot march, and the land navigation test during the www.benning.army.mil/infantry/magazine Ranger Assessment Phase (RAP). This article provides Soldiers and units assistance in shaping training plans to increase their success at Ranger School. Contact Information Mailing Address: 1 Karker St., McGinnis-Wickam Hall, Suite W-142, Fort 30 TRAINING THE NEXT Benning, GA 31905. GENERATION OF LEADERS ON FIRE Telephones: SUPPORT: FIVE THINGS EVERY (706) 545-2350 or 545-6951, DSN 835-2350 or 835-6951 Email: COMMANDER SHOULD KNOW [email protected] ABOUT FIRES LTC Kevin L. Jackson MAJ Johnny R. Fry CW2 James M. Verschueren The last 13 years of persistent asymmetric conflict and a general lack of training on decisive action across the Army have hampered the ability of maneuver commanders and fire support officers to This medium is approved for official dissemination integrate lethal and non-lethal fires into large-scale combined arms operations. Maneuver commanders of material designed to keep individuals within are entrusted to lead Soldiers and must apply all aspects of combat power to win in combat. Although the Army knowledgeable of current and emerging multiple methods exist to manage fires, this article lists five takeaways that provide leaders a guide to developments within their areas of expertise effectively employ all available fire support assets. for the purpose of enhancing their professional development. 35 A DISCIPLINED APPROACH TO By Order of the Secretary of the Army: TRAINING MANAGEMENT MARK A. MILLEY LTC Richard P. Taylor General, United States Army Reinvesting in doctrinally sound training management practices Chief of Staff will help to ensure readiness despite rapidly changing demands and financial shortfalls. This article suggests that junior field Official: grade officers and captains need to reinvest in doctrinally sound training management practices in order to better sequence and synchronize resources and units in time, space, and purpose. This can be done using three distinct methods — perfect discipline, GERALD B. O’KEEFE long-range training, and short-range training. Administrative Assistant to the Secretary of the Army 1609501 Distribution: Special Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited. OTHER DEPARTMENTS OMMANDANT S OTE 47 THE SCIENCE OF SIT-UPS: AN ASSESSMENT OF TOTAL C ’ N PHYSICAL FITNESS 2 YET ANOTHER THREAT: ADAPTING TO GREATER 2LT Scott K. Rapuano CHALLENGES MAJ Allen M. Trujillo BG Peter L. Jones Dr. Todd A. Crowder INFANTRY NEWS LESSONS FROM THE PAST 4 ARMY DEBUTS NEW DIGITAL JOB BOOK 52 THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE MACHINE GUN AND ITS Mike Casey IMPACT ON THE GREAT WAR MAJ Jack R. Nothstine 5 ‘ALL ARMY’ IDENTIFIES ELITE MARKSMEN Brenda Rolin BOOK REVIEWS PROFESSIONAL FORUM 58 THE HUMP: THE 1ST BATTALION, 503RD AIRBORNE INFANTRY IN THE FIRST MAJOR BATTLE OF THE 6 THE LIFE OF A WARRIOR LEADER VIETNAM WAR LTC Matthew T. Archambault By Al Conetto 9 BEHAVIORAL HEALTH: A PRIMER FOR COMPANY-LEVEL Reviewed by MG (Retired) Richard D. Chegar LEADERSHIP 59 THE U.S.-MEXICAN WAR: A COMPLETE CHRONOLOGY CPT Robert Klein By Bud Hannings CPT Josi Hall Reviewed by Gerald Williams 12 COUNTERING THE SPREAD OF ISLAMIC EXTREMISM 60 CAPTURED: THE FORGOTTEN MEN OF GUAM THROUGH CULTURALLY SENSITIVE, RELIGIOUSLY By Roger Mansell, edited by Linda Goetz Holmes RESPECTFUL SOLDIERS Reviewed by LTC (Retired) Rick Baillergeon LTC Richard K. Snodgrass 17 THE BEST CLASSROOM: REFLECTIONS FROM THE MCCC FIELD EXERCISE PILOT ON THE COVER: LTC Chris Budihas Soldiers with the 3rd Squadron, 2nd CPT Joshua Auerbach Cavalry Regiment engage targets CPT Matthew Draheim during team live-fire training at CPT David Sprague Pabrade Training Area in Lithuania on 2 February 2016. (Photo by SSG 20 FIGHTING FOR INFORMATION: DISMOUNTED Michael Behlin) RECONNAISSANCE TROOPS AND RECONNAISSANCE IN FORCE MAJ Andrew Breach, British Army 22 PUTIN’S ARMY AND COMPLEX APPLICATION OF RUSSIAN STRATEGIC LANDPOWER COL Douglas Mastriano U.S. Army War College Project 1721 Team BACK COVER: TRAINING NOTES Paratroopers with the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd 40 A PROGRESSIVE APPROACH TO BASIC RIFLE Airborne Division conduct a joint MARKSMANSHIP forcible entry operation during 1LT Brian Costella the brigade’s Mungadai event on SGT Nathanial Kalk 5 April 2016 at Fort Bragg, N.C. The event familiarized its officers 44 THE 75TH RANGER REGIMENT POST-OEF: ADAPTING and senior NCOs with the legacy of airborne forces, sharpened their TRAINING AND TTPS FOLLOWING 13 YEARS OF WAR warrior tasks and battle drills, and MSG Marcus Branch strengthened unit esprit de corps CPT Christopher Greer through a series of tasks designed to challenge the participants CPT Jonathan Kingsley mentally and physically (Photo by MAJ Vincent Kuchar SSG Jason Hull) Commandant’s Note BG PETER L. JONES YET ANOTHER THREAT: ADAPTING TO GREATER CHALLENGES ur Nation and her Army have remained the hope in interaction with and assurance of the free world for most of our counterparts, and Ohistory largely because of the principles and values by reading written we hold to be important, and because we have the means and materials and listening commitment to fight for them. Today this is more important to recordings of native than ever, as we dedicate our time and assets to training the speakers. Learning a smart, fast, lethal, and precise leaders to meet today’s new foreign language is a threats to our and our allies’ global interests. Our Secretary huge commitment, but of the Army recognizes the dangers posed by threats such as one’s passive under- the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) and has recently standing increases included developing capabilities to counter them as one of his exponentially with four priorities. In this Commandant’s Note, I want to outline the every conversation diversity and extent of the current threat and review a number and day that passes. We cannot rely solely upon interpreters of the articles in this issue of Infantry to enhance our Soldiers’ and translators. The Army must be able to field a language- and leaders’ proficiency in an uncertain and dangerous world. capable joint force. We are already making progress Today, we and our allies have a common cause: the toward this goal by instruction at the service academies; neutralization of an implacable enemy whose actions and through foreign language programs at universities offering disregard for even the most basic rules of land warfare set him ROTC; with resident instruction at the Defense Language apart from virtually any enemy we have fought since World War Institute, Foreign Language Center; at the U.S. Army John II. The carnage the Japanese unleashed in China beginning F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School; or with any in 1937 killed 300,000 soldiers and civilians in Nanking alone. of the language programs that are now available. Language Pol Pot’s radical social reform process by the Khmer Rouge proficiency is but one way we must look to the future. Our massacred half the population of Cambodia, and now we see future will not be defined solely by past victories, for our ISIS engaged in its own tactics and new depths of atrocity as it adversaries have already assessed them to determine why insinuates itself into ever newer territories in the Middle East, we won, and they have evolved the tactics, techniques, and on the periphery of the Mediterranean, into Africa, and across procedures to offset our advantage. As in the past, we must Syria and Iraq. Areas of interest for ISIS include those areas maintain a technological edge over the enemy even as he currently under attack by the Islamic State, control zones in pursues the same goal. Guerillas in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, which it enforces and defends its authority, and support zones or somewhere else may not have the technology to develop a in which it operates freely without maintaining a permanent directed energy weapon, but there are those who will produce presence. The latter zones provide logistical support to ISIS one for them and teach them how to use it. And they can because they are often in a state of abject terror, having seen learn; they have. We cannot forget that at least for the present ISIS’ rampages in other areas. This reliance upon terror to ISIS’ greatest source of weapons remains the United States; control a population is not new: Genghis Khan employed it with the amount of small arms, ammunition, and other materiel success in becoming the dominant military force of the 13th captured from Iraqi units during the 2014 offensive could last century. ISIS achieved its greatest visibility in early 2014 when them for a long time.