Blackhorse
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BD,
It is. You'll also notice that some jobs are mandatory for School of Advanced Military Studies (SAMs) graduates:
from FMI 3-91 Division OperationsThe plans cell is the heart of the main CP and is led by the G-5 (Plans and Policy), and is responsible for planning all future operations (see Figure 2-3). The plans cell consists of a plans element and a functional plans element. The plans element is led by the G-5 and contains several specialists including a School of Advanced Military Studies qualified planner, an Operations Research & System Analysis officer, a strategic plans officer, a Joint Operation Planning and Execution System officer, and two NCOs. The functional plans element contains the functional area planners from the following specialties:
Aviation.
Fires.
IO.
Deception.
Engineers.
Military intelligence.
Logistics.
note that the ORSA and Strat Planner are in functional areas within career fields (eg Operations, Operational Support, Information Operations, Institutional Support), meaning that those officers will only fill jobs related to strategic planning and Operations Research. They will no longer go back and forth between tactical units and functional areas. This career field designation occurs sometime after they have served time at the tactical level, usually after troop/company level command. Officers will then remain in that career field for the remainder of their careers. Officers in the Operations Career Field (which includes all the basic branches and FA 39 PSYOPS, and FA90 Multifunctional Logistician...previously all the logistics branches such as QM, OD, TC, etc) will fill the command positions of the BCTs, Sustainment Bdes, BFSBs, etc.
The plans cell is responsible for planning operations for the mid- to long-range planning horizons. It develops plans, orders, branches and sequels. They monitor the COP and stay abreast of the current operation by coordinating with the current operations cell and plan for sequels accordingly. When sufficient time is available before execution and at the request of a TAC CP, the plans cell may writebranches for the current operation. Plans cell members use the Military Decision Making Process (MDMP) for developing OPLANs and OPORDs. Each staff officer represents his functional area during the MDMP from receipt of the mission to orders production. (FM 5-0 discusses the MDMP in detail.)
The plans cell—
Produces OPLANs, OPORDs, and WARNOs to transition to future operations.
Closely coordinates with the current operations cell to transition from current to future
operations.
When requested, writes branch plans of the current operation for the G-3 at the TAC CP.
Participates in the targeting process.
Performs long-range assessment of an operation’s progress.
When planning requires functional area expertise that is not resident full time in the plans division, an plans working group is convened and outside expertise resident at the main CP is temporarily called in to support the planning effort. The other coordinating, special, and personal staff sections within the main CP support the plans cell, as required, to include G-1, G-4, G-6, CMO, Provost Marshal Office, AMD, space, surgeon, PA, CBRN, SJA, chaplain, and USAF planners. When the division is serving in a joint environment and conducting operations with other services, the plans cell may be augmented with United States Navy and USMC planners.
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BD and Gunner,
With the reorganization of the BCTs, the HQs have undergone significant reorganization as well.
The 2003 version of FM 6-0 Mission Command has one staff organization. Three years later, after modularity and experiences from OIF, FMI 5-0.1 established the new staff structure. FMI 5-0.1 was again updated in March 2008 and made permanent.
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Sounds vaguely...pentomic (inside joke).
You remember those days eh?
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Anyone care to comment about what I had to say about the TO&E issues? Am I even partially right or am I barking up the wrong tree, these light brigades are the cat's meow?
Gunner,
I wouldn't necessarily categorize them as light...You can always add more if necessary.
The new Brigade Combat Teams (BCTs) are very self sufficient.
Think of the new BCTs as smaller versions of the tradtional Armored Cavalry Regiments. They come with everything they need. There are 3 types. Heavy (HBCT), Stryker (SBCT), and Infantry (BCT), as well as special BCTs, such as the Battlefield Surveillance Brigade (which by the way comes with its own reconaissance squadron).
Under the concept of modularity, you can take a division HQ and add whatever number and type of BCT to Division for whatever mission the Division is undertaking. Traditional Division organization is out and modularity is in. You can have a division HQ from particular installation, and all it's Task Organized brigades from elsewhere, to include the National Guard.
Thus, if we were to conduct major combat operations, a division might have 2 HBCTs, a SBCT and a BCT, as well as a BFSB. All these units may very well come from other divisions.
If that same division were to conduct irregular warfare or limited intervention it might have 1 HBCT, 1 SBCT, and 1 BCT, or whatever is deemed necessary.. It's all mission dependent.
The HBCTs, and BCTs have certainly been leaned down with regards to combat units, and, in particular, with regards to infantry. There are however more of the BCTs now and therefore more BCTs can be added to a division's Task Org if needed. The SBCTs have not been leaned down. In fact, they are quite robust in terms of number of infantry assigned.
If it is determined that 1 BCT does not have all the necessary assets to fulfill a particular mission, then additional BCTs can be added to the force so that the required capabilities are available.
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Which is why our ancestors got geniuses like Stopford, Godley and Hunter-Weston.
As well as:
Sir Walter Norris Congreve
Lord Frederick Rudolf Lambart “Fatty” Earl of Cavan
William George Walker
Louis Lipsett
Cyril Aubrey Blacklock
Ivor Maxse
Gen Sir (Henry De) Beauvoir de Lisle
Frederick William Lumsden
“Inky Bill” Ingouville-Williams
Clifford Coffin
Gerald Farrell Boyd
Charles St Leger Barter
Sir George Frederick “Blood Orange”Gorringe
R. Broadwood
Nevill Maskelyne 'The Sphinx' Smyth
Sir (Hugh) Keppel “Beetle” Bethell
Sir Arthur William Currie
Sir Julian Byng
And many many more good than bad. One can find bad in any conflict.
I think SO said it rather well.
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In the U.S. Army's transition to a modular division structure, one of the things we gave up was our division cavalry squadron. We may miss having a screening force designed to be able to get out there and fight for information. UAVs just don't do the same thing.
Not exactly. Each BCT has gained a reconnaisance squadron. This is a capability that previously did not exist. Thus, a modular Division with 3 Bde's has effectively tripled its reconnaisance squadrons.
Additionally, a modular division can be provided a Battlefield Surveillance Brigade. The end result is an extrememly robust and layered ISR capability from Division to Brigade, on down to battalion.
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A typo on their home page and of their own name, yet. Tsk. Someone should let them know.
How on earth have they missed that one?
It's not like the typo is buried somewhere in line fifteen of the fifth paragraph.
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Is it feasible that the 400M [395,489,504] is actually the ammo issued for the campaign rather than what was fired? It does seem ludicrously exact to be anything else - down to the last 4 bullets!.
The effort of counting all the bullets after the campaign together with the shifting of troops to the West during the campaign does make it hard to believe that the 395M 's exactitude as expended. That is expended as in fired at targets, rather than removed from the arsenals which may be classed by them as consumption required for the campaign.
I believe you are spot on with this analysis.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evMLT0kIjtc
Starts at about 1:55 onwards
The actual test begins @ around 4:29
continuation and final test:
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You guys would do exceedingly well in a seminar such as this:
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kcmhr/postgrad/handout.pdf
The bibliography from page 4 onwards is exceptional.
Speaking of that bibliography, do any of you regard Stouffer's Studies in Social Psychology in World War II Combat and Its Aftermath as worthwhile or lending any new insights into this topic? I've not read it so I cannot comment one way or the other.
Regarding number of rounds fired to produce casualties...
General B.P.Hughes in his Firepower: Weapons Effectiveness on the Battlefield, 1630-1850 claims 0.2% - 0.5% of bullets in that time period found thier mark, equaling roughly 200-500 rounds fired per "hit", I believe.
Rory Muir in his Tactics and the Experience of Battle in the Age of Napoleon pretty much gives the same numbers.
Where either got those figures I do not know, and obviously, the data is from combat in the previous century..but it is data and it may be a starting point for more research.
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Switzerland & Sweden = Pop Warner...thus not even in the rankings
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There are still several "dry" counties here in the US where one cannot purchase alcohol. Additionally, there are several states, such as Virginia, that allow the sale of alcohol (Distilled spirits) in state run ABC stores.
Ironically the county where Jack Daniels is distilled (Lynchburg, TN) is "dry".
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In my experiences, German Army consumption of beer was exponentially dwarfed by Canadian Army consumption of beer...
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That's an insane amount of beer and wine!!! This equates to a per-soldier ratio of 26 ounces of beer a day, every day for a year. (source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/14/AR2008111403512_pf.html)
German soldiers are 'too fat to fight' Taliban because they drink so much (while our boys go dry)
By Mail Foreign Service
Last updated at 1:04 PM on 03rd December 2008
They drink too much and they're too fat to fight, that's the damning conclusion of German parliamentary reports into the country's 3,500 troops stationed in Afghanistan. While British and U.S. troops in the country face a strict ban on alcohol, their German comrades are allowed two pints a day.
The stunning statistics reveal that in 2007 German forces in northern Afghanistan drank 1.7million pints of beer and 90,000 bottles of wine. The troops also downed 896,000 pints of beer in the first six months of this year, the Times reported.
Last year Bundeswehr forces in northern Afghanistan drank 1.7million pints of beer and 90,000 bottles of wine The statistics only add to the embarrassment of the country's federal army, Bundeswehr, after a report earlier this year found troops to be too fat, smoked too much and didn't exercise enough. It showed they lived on beer and sausages while shunning fruit and vegetables.
The parliamentary report claimed that some 40 per cent of all German army personnel are overweight - a higher percentage than in the civilian population.
At the time Reinhold Robbe, the parliamentary commissioner for the armed forces, stated: 'Plainly put, the soldiers are too fat, exercise too little, and take little care of their diet.'
The Times also reported the damning allegation from a senior officer that Germany is failing in its main mission to train the Afghan police. He descibed the efforts as 'a miserable failure'.
Since 2001, 28 German soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan.
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Cool site OM!
I'd however argue that the "Salvador Dali" is a pure work of art and not an "Ugly Ship".
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Does anyone know how to use the house features? I bought the infirmary one but can't figure out how to install it in my house.
It's automatically installed. Ask your Servo bot for instructions.
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A personal trainer at a gym where I used to be a member was passing himself off as an "ex Special Operations (SEAL/SF), claiming to have served in the rangers, SF, and SEALs at various times to various people..... Things just didn't add up in his story, and every time I engaged him in discussions about things military he contradicted himself; my bs meter was pegged.
I contacted veriseal to see if they had and record of him as a SEAL. they did not. "Not a SEAL" was the response I received back from them.
Others weren't buying his line of bs either.
http://www.socnet.com/showthread.php?t=79458
http://inthebreach.blogspot.com/2006/10/fierce-training-now-warriors-forge.html
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I would highly recommed Redux for STALKER. ...It was about as close to living in the zone that I figure a mod can create.
Where might one find this mod?
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Do any of you have experience with making successful FoIA requests? I would like to see the service records of still living relative. He and I have spoken about this but he seems reticent to revisit his past. I suspect I could get his signature if pressed.
Being rather vague intentionally as his story is one that I have a hard time believing and would like some verification one way or the other.
http://www.archives.gov/st-louis/military-personnel/
Additionally, there are organizations that exist to verify questionable claims...organizations such as http://veriseal.org/
I've used Veriseal to good effect, using them to help expose a fraud and a crook.
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I wonder if the restraining order will even allow contact between the two...
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Here is a transcript (to the best of my [in] ability) of what the British gunners are saying :
FDO: Battery Action one seven six one “oh” left
CoS: [garbled]
FDO: Elevation two five degrees
CoS: [garbled] two five degrees
FDO: Adjust rounds one oh six two
CoS: Adjust rounds one oh six two
FDO: HE and charge four load and report
CoS: HE charge four [garbled]
Unknown: loaded
FDO: Fire Four!
Boom whizz
Unknown: ready two
FDO: Fire Two!
Boom whizz
CoS: One [garbled]
FDO: Fire One!
Boom whizz
FDO: Battery four, three three degrees
CoS: Battery four, three three degrees gun two
FDO: Fire Three!
Boom whizz
FDO: Fire two!
CoS: Repeat
Boom
FDO: Fire one!
CoS: Fire one
Boom whizz
FDO: Fire three!
CoS: Fire three
Boom whizz
FDO: Number three one half an inch more right… Fire Two!
Boom whizz
FDO: Fire one!
Boom whizz
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It sounds incredibly like cheesy and crummy sound effects.
4.5 and 6 inch guns and the guy still inhaled gas? Danger close artillery isn't what it used to be.
Those are all outgoing rounds. You can hear the adjustments being made by the fire direction officer and then the firing commands being issued by the chief of smoke.
The outgoing sounds are well..the sounds shells make. Nothing cheesy or crummy..just the sounds they make.
I find it amazing they were able to capture the audio, especially considering it was in a field environment in 1918.
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That's quite a remarkable recording. Nice find.
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Nothing gave me more satisfaction than clearing out the scum of Paradise Falls.
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