Engineer Brigade Validates with Mobile Training Team

Today's nonlinear battlefield is fluid and changes rapidly, requiring Soldiers to adapt quickly. Tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTP) sometimes change faster than stateside training can support; and equipment may become obsolete before it is even used. As the U.S. Army refines its TTP, adv...

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Main Authors: Crews, David G, Kenney, Donald J, Seppanen, Rory S
Format: Report
Language:English
Subjects:
ARMY
ARMY PERSONNEL
BATTLEFIELDS
BRIGADE LEVEL ORGANIZATIONS
Civil Engineering
COMPANY LEVEL ORGANIZATIONS
DEPLOYMENT
MILITARY ENGINEERING
MILITARY ENGINEERS
Military Forces and Organizations
MILITARY TACTICS
MILITARY TRAINING
MISSIONS
MOBILE
Personnel Management and Labor Relations
REPRINTS
TASK FORCES
TEAMS(PERSONNEL)
TEST METHODS
THEATER LEVEL OPERATIONS
VALIDATION
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Summary:Today's nonlinear battlefield is fluid and changes rapidly, requiring Soldiers to adapt quickly. Tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTP) sometimes change faster than stateside training can support; and equipment may become obsolete before it is even used. As the U.S. Army refines its TTP, adversaries adjust their own TTP to counter ours. Mission success depends on understanding and using the capabilities of the combined arms set available in theater. When Soldiers of the 1014th Engineer Company, Puerto Rico Army National Guard, prepared for deployment, they completed their validation exercise at Fort McCoy, Wisconsin. However, their training did not fully address engineer specific mission sets for the route clearance missions they would be conducting. Also, they established their area of operations in Regional Command North and had no unit with which to conduct relief-in-place training to include local TTP before taking control of the area. Consequently, they called upon their future higher headquarters, the 111th Engineer Battalion (Task Force Roughneck) and the 18th Engineer Brigade (Task Force Sword), to develop a plan to fill the gap in training and validate the unit before receiving mission sets. Published in Army Engineer p28-30 Jan-Apr 2012.