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404th Civil Affairs Battalion counter illicit trafficking training in Tanzania. (CJTF-HOA's Component Support Plans (CSP) in support of the Tanzanian Wildlife Authority).
No full textOne of the missions of the 404th Civil Affairs Battalion (CA BN) of the Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa (CJTF-HOA) is to conduct Counter Illicit Trafficking (CIT) training in Tanzania; it is one of their enduring and perhaps more interesting missions in Africa. Aside from the pure training aspect of it, the mission demonstrates suitable nesting with lines of effort (LOE) of the CJTF-HOA Campaign Support Plan (CSP), the benefits of multiagency contribution, specific properties associated with greater success in Building Partner Capabilities/Capacity (BPC) and finally the importance of using the CA BN’s Civil Information Management (CIM) cell to analyze information for situational awareness and to establish an assessments program to evaluate effectiveness in order to modify courses of action as needed
CALL Insider, Jan-Feb 2018.
No full textThis edition of the CALL Insider includes descriptions of recent CALL publications and after action reports, previews of coming publications, and news from the front and combat training centers
News from the CTC: Manning for operations: organizing the brigade support battalion for JRTC rotation.
No full textThe purpose of this article is to describe how the 225th Brigade Support Battalion organized its forces to support Task Force Warrior during JRTC 17-04. The article will focus on how the unit’s organization deviated from the MTOE, and what risks were assumed and why. During the rotation, 20-25% of the Soldiers in the Battalion were task organized outside of their MTOE assigned position, resulting in a 20-30% reduction in sustainment capability compared to the MTOE. These decisions were made deliberately to balance requirements to exercise Mission Command, defend the support area & convoys, and perform non-doctrinal or non-force structure supported sustainment tasks
News from the CTC: Human resources operations branch.
No full textThe Human Resource Operations Branch (HROB) is a resource manager within the support operations (SPO) section of a Sustainment Brigade (Sus BDE) or Expeditionary Sustainment Command (ESC) responsible for enabling human resource operations within a theater of operations and facilitates the management of our most precious commodity – personnel. However, outside of a deployment, HROB’s are seldom employed, and when deployed, HROBs are rarely manned and operated with the experience and technical expertise to be effective
Reconnaissance in the Ninth Air Force: a report on reconnaissance operations during the European campaigns, part III, photographic materiel.
No full textReconnaissance units in the Ninth Air Force have had a wide and varied experience with photographic and other equipment during the European campaigns. Solutions to problems that have arisen in this theater may not necessarily be solutions to the same problems in other theaters. This report, however, indicates such problems and discusses the solutions as developed here in order that this great mass of experience may be passed on to other theaters. Section I- general. Section II- photographic laboratory sections. Section III- camera repair sections. Section IV- equipment
Field order #1 – Headquarters, I Corps.
No full textAnnexes include information on intelligence, troop list, operations overlay, assignment of shipping and landing schedule, S-day landing schedule, signal, artillery, engineer, antiaircraft, and chemical
Colgate calling: offensive strategic fighter control, ETO, 1943-45.
No full textThis booklet follows the previously published air/sea rescue report, "Shepherd of the Seas", and attempts to complete the story of fighter control in the strategic air force as they experienced it and helped to develop it. First, you find in Chapters I, II & III a simple narrative of highlights. Second, in Chapters IV & V you have a functional description of each main part of the control system at peak development in 1945, and how much of a change from the past this represented. Third, considered recommendations; and Fourth, all the details, including control procedure from beginning to end as they went through a typical mission step by step
Combat notes Sixth Army, number 3, 15 September 1944.
No full textContents: landing beaches; comments on the Aitape landing; war dogs; reduction of enemy defenses; use of the rocket launcher; command responsibilities of scrub typhus control; action of an infantry battalion at Aitape; and Oriental obliteration
Exposure under fire: an official history of Signal Corps photography in the Luzon operations.
No full textOf all the diversified Signal Corps troops doing their jobs under trying conditions on Luzon Island in the Philippines---of all the troops of any arm or service, for that matter---none had a greater variety of combat experiences than the men of the Signal Corps Photographic Service
E. & E. report nos. 76 & 77: "Evasion from China" and "Background to evasion in China".
No full text"Background to evasion in China" includes an index regarding terrain, vegetation, climate, the Chinese people, Chinese and Japanese uniforms and equipment, Japanese dispositions, general evasion notes, and organized evasion