- - lNAL BULLITIN FOR ARMY ENQINEER By Major General Robert 5.Flowers Commandant, U.S. Army Engineer School he slogan "One Regiment, One Team, One The Grizzly is a complex obstacle-breaching vehicle FightJ'embodiesthe Engineer Regiment's vision. that is based on a refurbished MI chassis. It integrates TThe Senior Engineer Officer Board of Directors advanced countermine and counterobstacle capabilities carefully crafted the vision in Washington, D.C., in in a single, survivable system. September. Its purpose is to ensure that our regiment The Wolverine is a heavy assault bridge that is remains relevant to all our military forces, major Army based on an MI chassis. It is designed to transport, command (MACOM) staffs, Directors of Public Works, launch, and retrieve a military load class 70 bridge Department of Defense civilians, private industries that across gaps up to 24 meters. serve or support military units, and Corps of Engineer The DTSS integrates commercial off--the-shelf hard- organizations around the world. The vision statement ware and laboratory-developed software to form a describes how an organization will look, what it will do, package that provides direct access to data acquired by and how it will operate. It states what we continually national systems and delivered by tactical exploitation of strive to achieve. Our new vision statement is: national capabilities assets. Soldiers utilizing the DTSS have the capability to produce soft and hard topographic 1 The U.S. Army Engineer Regiment products, such as digital terrain elevation data map I substitutes and three-dimensionalterrain products. The World's Premier Enaineer" Team: I MCS-ENG is an engineer-specificsoftware systemthat I is subordinate to the Maneuver Control system (MCS). Full-Spectrum,Total Force-Vital to the Army and 11 The MCS is a command and control system that provides the Nation , I the maneuver commander and his staff (Cor~s, , level and Values Based - Respected! Res~onsiveyReliable below) with automatedassistanceto execute precise, near Visualizing and EnhancingTerrain to Ensure 1 real-timecommand and control of combat forces. Mission Success A modernized ESV is critically needed to enhance engineer survivability and give engineer units an Meeting Tomorrow's Challenges Today - Deployed armored capability for providing mobility and counter- or at Home, in Peace or in War mobility support to the maneuver forces. The leading One Regiment, OneTeam, One Fight I contender for a modernized ESV is the Bradley fighting I vehicle. The long-term solution is to co-develop an ESV Our next step is to staff this vision statement with variant of the future infantry vehicle (see article, page 7). regimental leaders at all levels to gain an understanding As Part of OPMS XXI, we recently updated the of what each bullet means to the various organizations Engineer chapter in DA Pam 600-3. The most significant within the regiment. As stated during the 1998 change expands o~~ortunitiesfor majors to become ENFORCE Conference, the vision is effectiveonly ifthe branch qualified. Branch-qualifying positions for majors officers, noncommissioned officers, and Department of now include assistant division engineers, directors of the Army civilians understand it. To that end, I ask all of public works, and deputy district engineers, as well as the you to continually communicate this vision to soldiers traditional S3 and XO positions. This change recognizes and civilians throughout our diverse regiment. the importance that these positions have in supporting The Engineer School continues to field new the total force and the considerable responsibility they equipment to maintain a vital force structure. Our top demand. I believe that this change will result in officers five priorities remain the Grizzly, the Wolverine, the spending more time in branch-qualifying positions for the Digital Topographic Support System (DTSS), the betterment of the organization and themselves. Maneuver Control System-Engineer (MCS-ENG), and As I travel around the world and visit military units, I a modernizedengineer squad vehicle (ESV). I ask your have an o~~ortunit~to meet SOr-ne of the outstanding support to communicate the importance of these soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines who trained here systems to key Army, Department of Defense, and at Fort LeonardWood. I never fail to be amazed at their political leaders. Brief descriptions follow. high quality.Thank you for a job well done. November 1998 Headquarters, Department of the Army Volume 28 PB 5-98-4 - I UNITED STATES ARMY I F;EA,TUPES ENGINEER CENTER AND 2 The Army XXI Division: Engineer Relevancy in the Age FORT LEONARD WOOD of Information Technology I By Major General Robert B. Flowers, Mr. Vern Lowrey, and COMMANDEWCOMMANDANT '1 Colonel Bruce Porter Major General Robert B. Flowers 7 The Engineer Bradley Fighting Vehicle I' By Major Aniello L. Tortora and Major Thomas Quigley 12 Operation Desert Thunder: Coalition Task Force-Kuwait MANAGING EDITOR I Engineer Operations Catherine Eubanks I By Lieutenant Colonel William Bowers, Major Michael Lynch, and Major Donald Johantges FEATURES EDITOR Tactical DPW in Bosnia-Herzegovina Shirley Bridges By Captain David G. Winget GRAPHIC DESIGNER ( 20 Underground Combat: Stereophonic Blasting,Tunnel Rats, Jennifer Morgan and the Soviet-Afghan War I By Lester W Grau and AE Ahmad Jalali 24 Guantanamo Bay: Combat Engineering Don't "Gitmo" By Order of the Secretary of the Army: Better Than This By Captain Anthony J. Monaco, USMC DENNIS J. REIMER 30 TerraBase Il, Version 3.0: Supporting the Terrain General, United States Army Visualization Expert Chief of Staff By Mark Adams and Lieutenant Colonel Earl Hooper 38 Training Base Expansion: An Active-Reserve Partnership Official: By Lieutenant Colonel Allen C. Estes and Second Lieutenant Kenneth Caubble 41 Cracking the Code on Class IVIClass V Supply Point Operations JOEL B. HUDSON By Captain Mark T: Martinez Administrative Assistant to the 44 The Origins of Military Mines: Part II Secretary of the Army By Major William C. Schneck 05173 51 Through the Breach: ATanker's Perspective By Captain Jeffrey Erdley Front Cover: Through Army XXI reorgan- ization, experimentation, deployments, and / DEPARTMENTS training, engineers prepare for the next Inside front cover: Clear the Way millenium. 11 Book Review 60 Engineer Update Back Cover: A historical example of the Army 33 CTC Notes 61 Lead the Way value "Respect," 56 Past in Review ENGINEER (ISSN 0046-19890) is prepared quarterly by the U.S. Army Engineer within their areas of expertise for the purpose of enhancing their professional School, 320 Eng~neerLoop, Suite 370, Fort Leonard Wood, MO 65473-8929. Second development. Views expressed are those of the author and not those of the Class postage is paid at Fort Leonard Wood. MO, and additional mailing offices. Department of Defense or its elements. 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Today, Army en,'olneers are the design sometime during the summer of 2001. deployed in more than 70 countries to support operations The U.S. Army Engineer School will thoroughly evaluate ranging from building roads to clearing landmines to the 4th Infantry Division engineer structure from now through producing terrain visualization products. In the coming the DCX. The school will properly collect and analyze data months and years, Army engineers have yet another challenge that may lead to appropriate recommendations to the Army to meet-the Army XXI division (see Figure 1). Chief of Staff concerning the Army XXI engineer structure. Since 1993, the Training and Doctrine Command The school does not support efforts to convert other heavy (TRADOC) has been in the process of restructuring for divisions to the Army XXI structure until the design has tomorrow's Army. Through numerous seminars, analyses, and been thoroughly evaluated by the Army and appropriate Advanced Warfighting