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NGINEE ERThe Professional Bulletin of Army Engineers Volume 38 PB 5-08-3/4 Headquarters, Department of the Army July-December 2008 UNITED STATES ARMY FEATURES ENGINEER SCHOOL 05 Building Strong Starts With Getting the Right People By Lieutenant General Robert L. Van Antwerp COMMANDANT Colonel Robert A. Tipton 06 Early Engagement Strategy at Norwich University By Lieutenant Richard A. Pratt and Brigadier General(P) Gregg F. Martin MANSCEN 08 Strengthening the Regiment: Mentorship, Leader Development, and the Engineer Community DIRECTORATE OF TRAINING By Lieutenant Colonel Diana M. Holland PUBLICATIONS BRANCH 12 USACE Uses New Techniques to Attract Graduates MANAGING EDITOR By Mr. Scott Nielsen Shirley Bridges 13 Engineers Excel at 2008 Branch Orientation Days By Captain William E. Mohr EDITOR 15 SAME Construction and Engineering Camps: Building Great Engineers by Rick Brunk Mentoring Students CONTRIBUTING EDITOR By Mr. Ron Brown Cheryl Green 16 Professional Registration—Advice for Aspiring Army Engineers By Major Richard J. Gash GRAPHIC DESIGNER 20 Building Great Engineers: How SAME Is Your Closest Ally Jennifer Morgan By Mr. Ben Matthews 21 Knowledge Management in Action Front Cover and Back Cover: By Mr. Douglas D. Fowler Designed by Jennifer Morgan 23 Mental Training for Combat Engineers: From the Classroom to the Battlefield By Mr. Brian C. Hite DEPARTMENTS 25 Contracting Officer’s Representative rainingT at the Engineer School 02 Clear the Way By Lieutenant Colonel Steven T. Wall and Major John N. Carey By Brigadier General (P) 26 Engineer Opportunities on the Southwest Border Gregg F. Martin By Major Allison Day 3 Clear the Way 28 Operation Hydra: Airborne Engineers in Action By Commandant By First Lieutenant Matthew Z. Freund Colonel Robert A. Tipton 30 Before Equipment and Training, There Must Be Engineering By Major Thomas D. Heinold 04 Lead the Way 34 2008 Army Deployment Excellence Awards By Command Sergeant Major By Mr. Henry H. Johnson Robert J. Wells 36 Power Surge: 249th Engineer Battalion Conducts Electrical Inspections and Repairs 33 Letter to the Editor By Lieutenant Colonel Paul B. Olsen 33 Dedication 38 Engineer Doctrine Update By Lieutenant Colonel Hank Thomsen 68 Past in Review – “Topogs: Topographical Engineers in 41 Engineer Training at NTC By Major Larry J. Lyle, Jr. Peace and War” By Mr. Gustav Person 44 Focus on the Future: Institutionalizing Sustainability Into the Army By Colonel Timothy E. Hill 77 Engineer Update 48 Wildfire Maps Aid FEMA Mission 77 News and Notes By Dr. JoAnne Castagna 50 The Battle of Shiloh 622 18th Engineer Brigade’s Mission Rehearsal Exercise at By Captain John T. Shelton JMRC 54 Pioneering Nondoctrinal Bridging Operations: By Lieutenant Colonel Hank Thomsen The “Roller Skate” Repair 65 A Quick Introduction to NATO Engineering By First Lieutenant Nicholas A. Soroka By Lieutenant Colonel David L. Knellinger 56 Iron Claw Academy: Developing Route Clearance Capabilities in the Iraqi National Police 74 Operation Sand Castle 2008: Taking It to the Next Level By Captain Scott F. Swilley0 and Beyond 59 A New Generation of Expeditionary Earth-Filled By Major Jon A. Brierton Protective Barriers By Warrant Officer 2 MattA. Graves July-December 2008 Engineer 1 - Clear The Way By Brigadier General (P) Gregg F. Martin Commandant, United States Army Engineer School eammates: On 8 October 2008— develop over the past several years. There a gorgeous Fall day in the Ozarks— is much untapped potential that we must Tthe MANSCEN CG, MG McCoy, explore and develop. passed the Engineer Commandant Colors The recently completed Collection from me to COL Bob Tipton. It has been and Analysis Team (CAAT) project in the greatest of honors to have served as Iraq will be a great help in validating our your Commandant for the past year. This requirements. Thanks to COLs Tipton and has been an awesome endeavor for Maggie DeLuca and teams for orchestrating and and me, and we have loved every minute executing this critical mission so well. The of serving with and for you all! officially sanctioned CALL report should While fighting in two theaters and be published soon. conducting full spectrum operations On the Building Great Engineers (BGE) worldwide, our Regiment has been mag- front, we’ve had an awesome run since nificent! From tip-of-the-spear Sapper and the last Engineer Bulletin. We’ve executed counter-IED missions, across the total significant Stratcomms/Engagement range of our many engineer roles and functions throughout the events at USMA, both the Engineer Expo (to encourage depth and space of the operational environment, to national- underclassmen to major in engineering) and the Combat level reconstruction operations, our Regiment provides an Leader Seminar and Branch Day (to inform, educate, and absolutely critical capability for our Army, Joint Force and encourage senior cadets to consider choosing our branch); the Nation. Simultaneously, we have TRAINED, educated and USACE Leaders Emeritus conference, where we updated and helped develop more than 20,000 new engineer Soldiers and informed the grey beards and senior leaders; the Army War leaders; SUPPORTED our deploying and deployed forces; College; Tufts University; and MIT AROTC. continued TRANSFORMING ourselves into the Modular Many of you have been conducting similar events as well. Engineer Force; CARED for each other and our Families; and Special thanks and a big Hooah to MG Bo Temple, who has ENGAGED key stakeholders—all for the good of our Army! been a one-man, bone-crushing force at numerous schools We are One Engineer Regimental Team of Teams, and events throughout Virginia!!! I encourage you all to get comprised of more than 70,000 uniformed engineer Soldiers engaged and go tell your and our engineer story. We have and more than 30,000 DA Civilians, as well as academic a comprehensive Stratcomms push package available on our colleagues, alumni, contractors, Families, and more… We website for your use. are in great demand around the world—everyone wants I also had the great opportunity to travel to Iraq with the more engineers and the capabilities we provide so well. Yet, Chief and see a number of you. Although I would like to have in our resource-constrained environment, it is unlikely that stayed longer and to have seen every one of you, it was a great we will see any significant increase in resources, if any at visit, and I was extremely impressed with what you are doing all, in the foreseeable future...Thus, it is encumbent upon us and achieving.