NPR's Talk of the Nation featured a segment this afternoon featuring David Finkel whose book, The Good Soldiers (which I have not read), recounts his time embedded with the unit (2-16 IN) involved in...
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NPR's Talk of the Nation featured a segment this afternoon featuring David Finkel whose book, The Good Soldiers (which I have not read), recounts his time embedded with the unit (2-16 IN) involved in...
I recommend a Garmin GPS. I personally used the Garmin eTrex Vista on two deployments to Afghanistan. You can download TOPO maps for the Garmin from the NGA's website and they tend to be pretty...
I know of at least 3 living soldiers submitted for the Medal of Honor at this time. One living Marine was mentioned in recent news reports and I've read two narratives from 2007 in Afghanistan.
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My sense, though I have no definitive data to support it, is that there was a much more extensive program to teach Vietnamese during the Vietnam War than we have undertaken for our current conflicts....
I've been at its great sister song festival in Vilnius, Lithuania for the last few days. It seemed similarly well attended. It's also the 1000th anniversary of Lithuania (when was first mentioned in...
While I agree that answering these questions is a part of the core tasks of a G-2/S-2 section, the tactical (Div. and below) Military Intelligence corps is simply not aligned to collect and analyze...
This is very much how we conducted operations on my last rotation to Northeast Afghanistan. On overnight operations, platoons would leave the Firebase dismounted with a light load enroute to...
Collection management/ISR synchronization is one of the more difficult jobs (behind BN S-2) that could be given to someone new to the S-2/MI community. The confluence of balancing an ever increasing...
Another Tulane Alum here. As a kid, I lived on Osan Air Base in South Korea. Every year, we had a ceremony on Hill 180, located on base, in remembrance of the location of the last U.S. Bayonet charge...
Mike,
I'm not at all suggesting that we impose a western-centric model of "justice" in Afghanistan. Whether the justice is tribal, the punishment local and the prisons national or any mix in...
Our fundamental failure to make any significant progress in over 7 years towards an even marginally functioning legal system in Afghanistan is the root cause of these men's actions. It is...
Just reading the title, I thought to myself, "I bet I know exactly what raid these awards are for." Sure enough, I was right. U.S. soldiers had never even been within 30 miles of that village before...
As another interesting aside regarding skipping grades, the Navy until 1981 promoted all officers directly from Captain (O-6) to Rear Admiral (O-8) as they did not have a O-7 equivalent rank....
In response to the posts on population control and given our limited current force structure, I would suggest that the Waygal Valley (where Wanat is located) is perhaps just a valley too far to...
After days of reading the blogosphere’s reaction and commentary, I feel compelled to address some of my strong concerns with the article, as a currently deployed soldier in the 173rd who has walked...
I think the Fallon move fits within the portended changes for overall campaign strategy in Iraq and the Middle East. ADM Fallon has made major shift in strategy away from pure hard military balancing...