Posts tagged with "US Army"

Heavy Metal - A Tank Company's Battle to Baghdad

FORGE THE THUNDERBOLT! May 3, 2005 Sargeant Scott Stewart saw the tanks first. They were partially hidden in the late afternoon shadows that stretched across the narrow street lined with three-story buildings. The Iraqi T-72 tanks sat nearly side-by-side, the one on the right with its gun tube pointing north, the other close to the curb...
Air Warrior

Air Warrior

With all the emphasis on technology, it is easy to forget the persons working with it. It is not just the tanks, planes and ships that that benefit from the enormous leaps made in the past decades. The combat soldiers has for many, many years almost been forgotten, or at least not fully profited from the technologies available. Only...

Preparing for Iraq: a new approach to combined arms training

Current operations in Iraq present our armored and mechanized units with unique challenges that require a new approach to our traditional, National Training Center (NTC)-based training progression. Many of the tried-and-true maneuver fundamentals remain essential for success, but the nature of the tactical environment in Iraq demands...
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