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jcustis
01-19-2007, 03:17 PM
Looks like a dashing new rapidly-deployable unit is on the horizon for the Army. http://www.awg.army.mil/. It requires AKO credentials. EDITED: I dug deeper and it isn't new. I found a 2005 press release about one of its planned training evolutions at Ft AP Hill.

Any of the Army brethren here know more about it on the unclass side (how it has progressed)?

Jedburgh
01-19-2007, 03:38 PM
Looks like a dashing new rapidly-deployable unit is on the horizon for the Army. http://www.awg.army.mil/. It requires AKO credentials.

Any of the Army brethren here know more about it on the unclass side?
New is relative, I guess. They've been recruiting for a while. Here's an article from the Mar 05 issue of Army:

The Asymetric Warfare Group: Closing the Gaps (http://www.ausa.org/pdfdocs/Lovelace.pdf)

http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/8255/awglj5.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Tom Odom
01-19-2007, 04:56 PM
They do good work. In many ways they have echoed what we have been doing BUT because they are new their focus in certain issues gets looked at quicker.

Best

Tom

marct
01-19-2007, 07:58 PM
Reading through the article, I didn't notice anything on reconstruction, psyops or cultural analysis. Since I don't have access to what they are actually producing, I wonder if anyone could comment on his. Are they actually doing anything on the political/information front?

Marc

Jimbo
01-23-2007, 12:06 AM
Marc,

They are an outgowth of the IED task force. They do a variety of things. There is a thinking part of it, and there is another side to that unit as well. There isn't much on it out there because they are new. There probably won't be much out there on them for quite some time.

marct
01-23-2007, 01:27 AM
Marc,

They are an outgowth of the IED task force. They do a variety of things. There is a thinking part of it, and there is another side to that unit as well. There isn't much on it out there because they are new. There probably won't be much out there on them for quite some time.

Thanks, Jimbo. I hope that they come out wit some material that we can see soon.

Marc

Jimbo
01-23-2007, 02:08 AM
Marc,

Some of their stuff is out in the training base. Don't expect a lot on these guys anytime soon (read between the lines).

selil
07-17-2007, 02:18 AM
I always wondered if they might need somebody for cyber-warfare/forensics?

marct
07-17-2007, 11:32 AM
I always wondered if they might need somebody for cyber-warfare/forensics?

LOLOL Yeah, that would, IMO, be a benefit. I wonder if they could use a symbolic Anthropologist as well :D.

SteveMetz
07-17-2007, 12:09 PM
LOLOL Yeah, that would, IMO, be a benefit. I wonder if they could use a symbolic Anthropologist as well :D.

Well, one could be useful for mine clearing and hands-on demolition removal.

marct
07-17-2007, 12:24 PM
Well, one could be useful for mine clearing and hands-on demolition removal.

Only if they were true post-modernists... after all, they are the specialists in deconstruction :rolleyes:.

Ken White
07-17-2007, 03:56 PM
"Normal is a cycle on a washing machine" transliterated from the Pikuni bears some anthropological watching... :)

SteveMetz
07-17-2007, 06:46 PM
eh? You all lost me. :confused:

My favorite Firesign Theater line seems appropriate here: "Hey--I think we're all bozos on this bus"

Steve Blair
07-17-2007, 07:26 PM
My favorite Firesign Theater line seems appropriate here: "Hey--I think we're all bozos on this bus"

I always liked "I'm gonna cut the soles off my shoes, live in a tree, and learn to play the flute!"...although the routine with Leftenant Behind of the Seventh Seal Cavalry is also worthy of mention.

Mark O'Neill
07-17-2007, 11:48 PM
Well, one could be useful for mine clearing and hands-on demolition removal.


An old deminer's adage is that even the untrained can clear at least one landmine.

Once.

SteveMetz
07-18-2007, 12:08 AM
An old deminer's adage is that even the untrained can clear at least one landmine.

Once.

Well, can you think of a better use for anthropologists?

selil
07-18-2007, 01:35 AM
Well, can you think of a better use for anthropologists?

According to some guys I met from New Guinea they taste good with BBQ sauce.

Tom Odom
07-18-2007, 12:58 PM
According to some guys I met from New Guinea they taste good with BBQ sauce.


Do they do "dry" or "wet" BBQ? :D

marct
07-18-2007, 01:18 PM
According to some guys I met from New Guinea they taste good with BBQ sauce.

The FDA would never approve :D.

selil
07-18-2007, 01:30 PM
What are you going to do with cannibals? They started arguing over whether mustard or catsup based sauces were best. I told them dry rub was the only real option and then they started talking about seasoning options for technologists.

Tom Odom
07-18-2007, 01:37 PM
What are you going to do with cannibals? They started arguing over whether mustard or catsup based sauces were best. I told them dry rub was the only real option and then they started talking about seasoning options for technologists.

Good for you. Dry rub rules!

Clearly these cannibals were savages in even considering a catsup-based sauce...

SteveMetz
07-18-2007, 01:42 PM
Good for you. Dry rub rules!

Clearly these cannibals were savages in even considering a catsup-based sauce...


I think we need to start a new thread: "101 Uses For a Cultural Anthropologist"

Lord_Malone
07-18-2007, 02:37 PM
You guys really should read Contingency Cannibalism: Superhardcore Survivalism's Dirty Little Secret by Shiguro Takada. Given the direction this thread has drifted off to, you all should get a kick out of it. It even includes recipes, so you can serve up your "Cultural Anthropologist" any way you'd like.