Field Artillery, Nov-Dec 06: So, You’re Going to be on a MiTT - What Do You Need to Know?
We’ve been on a military transition team (MiTT) with the 3rd Battalion, 4th Brigade, 2nd Iraqi Army Division (3/4/2 IA) in Mosul for four months, and after reviewing the many lessons we’ve learned, we wish we could get into a time machine and go back to prepare ourselves better for the MiTT mission. What we’ve learned so far applies not only to a MiTT, but also to all types of transition teams in Iraq or Afghanistan—border transition teams (BTTs) and special police transition teams (SPTTs), to name a couple...