Training the Soldier for COIN

[Strategic LT]

A collaborative effort by the PSGs and LTs in my unit have come up with a list of things they would like to accomplish so far.

CLS refresher.....scenario based
Land Nav....open terrain and urban (we will use Killeen)
Individual weapons refreshers
Crew serve weapons refreshers
Battle Drills
Convoy Trainer (Interactive trainer, uses tv screens etc.)
IED training....scenario based

none of which are COIN concepts, but your regular soldier skills

COIN Related
Region Orientation (Struggle with this, S2 related)
Culture training (We have an Iraqi Professor, very good source)

I will add to the list based on what I have seen here

Route and Area Recon
Bilateral Talks....scenario and classes(Both soldier and Leader)

What else?
Like some suggestions for simple reads for them. I would like for them to read The Ugly American, comments on that are welcome.

[RTK]

A collaborative effort by the PSGs and LTs in my unit have come up with a list of things they would like to accomplish so far.

CLS refresher.....scenario based
Land Nav....open terrain and urban (we will use Killeen)
Individual weapons refreshers
Crew serve weapons refreshers
Battle Drills
Convoy Trainer (Interactive trainer, uses tv screens etc.)
IED training....scenario based

none of which are COIN concepts, but your regular soldier skills

COIN Related
Region Orientation (Struggle with this, S2 related)
Culture training (We have an Iraqi Professor, very good source)

I will add to the list based on what I have seen here

Route and Area Recon
Bilateral Talks....scenario and classes(Both soldier and Leader)

What else?
Like some suggestions for simple reads for them. I would like for them to read The Ugly American, comments on that are welcome.

Reporting:
Contact Report
"Red, Red 1,
Contact,
East,
RPG,
OUT"

Spot Reports:
"Xray, Red 1,
Slant 4,
ES 123456,
Contact with 1 RPG team,
establishing support by fire position, maneuvering 1 section to western flank, over"

[Stan]

Reporting:
Contact Report
"Red, Red 1,
Contact,
East,
RPG,
OUT"

Spot Reports:
"Xray, Red 1,
Slant 4,
ES 123456,
Contact with 1 RPG team,
establishing support by fire position, maneuvering 1 section to western flank, over"

Let It Rain !

[Strategic LT]

Let It Rain !

Had to add an avatar, since the big guns were put on display!

[Stan]

Had to add an avatar, since the big guns were put on display!

Welcome aboard LT !

And a nice one it is...Well done

[slapout9]

I would like to recommend a book on this subject.
"Small Unit Leadership: A Commonsense Approach" by Col. Dandridge M. Malone. It is available at amazon including a look at the table of contents and a free excert. Go check it out!

Some of the posts on here are almost the same conversations that take place in the book. Especially the list of Questions RTK posted. It is Vietnam era oriented but still very good. This book has also been on the IACP (International Association of Chief's of Police) list for years.

Also RTK has previously reported about vacuum cleaners in Slapout. This is completely false!! we could never get them to work on our dirt floors so they have been banned.