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the AWD , as MG White briefed GEN Franks during his 14 October visit, was not to become enamored or discouraged by the tinkering with technology, but to look beyond the challenges at the capability of the technology implied when combined with the soldier. Franks noted a number of comments from soldiers about many items of the equipment they were employing, not just the night vision equipment, which he passed on to his staff for action. 19 2 October 1993-MG Larry G. Lehowicz, DCS-CD , TRADOC, briefed the LAM Board of Directors on the status of seven LAM issues for which TRADOC was the proponent. The first issue briefed was OTN. The briefing discussed the measures underway within the Army including work at the DBBL, the STF on 2d Gen FUR, and the HTI approach to developing the 2d Gen FUR capability. It noted that the OTN issue was being carried over and folded into the 1994 LAM issue of Continuous Operations. 20 9 December 1993-DCSOPS approved the Operational Requirements Document (ORD) for the Improved FUR Capability which resulted from the work of the STF on 2d Gen FUR. The Program Executive Officer for Intelligence/Electronic Warfare was designated as the executive while TRADOC was deSignated the combat developer 21 March 1994-MG White published "Commandant's Note: Dismounted Battlespace Battle Lab, Putting the Ideas of the Future into Action To day," in Infantry (March-April 1994). In the note, he described the battle lab system and the organization and missions of his own DBBL In the same issue, CPT Lewis G. Wagner published "Owning the Night," which described in detail the evolution of the DBBl's organization and conduct of its several experiments and demonstrations from mid-1992 through 116 the AWD at Fort Campbell. Wagner discussed the numerous equipment-related results of the Campbell experimentation and described some of the proj ected features of the AWE to occur at the JRTC during March 1994 22 9-11 May 1994-The Infantry Center conducted a Future Operational Capabilities, Infantry (FOCUS II) AWE at Fort Benning in conjunction with its Infantry Commanders' Conference. The AWE employed a light infantry company from Fort Lewis and a heavy infantry company from Fort Benning. Results of the AWE showed that objective OTN systems provided a clear advantage over existing capabilities and that these former systems provided improved command and control and increased stand-off ranges. In addition, the new technologies reduced force exposure to enemy detection and action and risks of fratricide, and enabled the force equipped with them to operate continuously at high tempos day and night. 23 June-August 1994-During June, the DBBL conducted a Night Firing AWE at Fort Benning to compare the effectiveness and ease of use of laser aiming devices. During July and August, the Battle Lab also conducted a two-phase Concept Evaluation Program (CEP) Test of night driving technologies and procedures using various night vision devices and various vehicles H FY 1995-The Infantry Center and the DBBL conducted CEP tests on night firing, night vision device range determinations, and OTN tactics, techniques, and procedures and completed construction of a Night Fighting Training FaCility. The Night Fighting Training FaCility used a variety of methodologies, including a heavy reliance on simulations, to train trainers and individual soldiers in various skills necessary for fighting and operating effectively at night. 25 The Modern Louisiana Maneuvers
1 Message, Sullivan, Eyes Only, to Franks, 222235Z October 1991, sub: Terminology. 2 Memorandum for Record, DAEC-CA, 29 October 1991, sub : GSC Memo #43-9 1. 3 TRADOC DCSCDD briefing chart, as of 11 February 1992, for HQ, TRADOC Review and Analysis, 1st Quarter, FY 92, sub: Owning the Night. 4 Message, TRADOC, AT CD-ZA, to Cmdts/MSC Cdrs, 061910Z November 1991, sub : Owning the Night. Message, from Comdt, FA School, personal for GEN Franks, 171930Z December 1991, sub: same. Message , from CDRSIGCEN personal for GEN Franks, 191624Z December 1991, sub: same. 5 Ibid. 6 Jerry A. White, "Commandant's Note: Owning the Night," Infantry, 82:3 (May-June 1992), 1-2. 7 Jerry A. White, "Commandant's Note: Light and Lethal," Infantry, 82:4 Guly-August 1992), 1-2. 8 Memorandum for Record, ATCG-P, from GEN Franks to Distribution, 26 August 1992, sub: Visit of CSA to Fort Monroe, 21 Aug 92, in Franks Papers, SG AD , COR-089, Document 1, pp. 33-36. TRADOC Briefing Package, 21 Aug 92, sub Chief of Staff of the Army Battle Labs Video Teleconference, in Sullivan Papers, Chief of Staff of the Army Papers, Box 01A of 8, January-September 1992, Folder 3, August 1992, file 7. 9 Lewis G. Wagner, "Owning the Night," Infantry 84:2 (March-April 1994), 9. Concept Evaluation Program Test of the Infantry Platoon Night Fighting System, Final Test Report, April 1993, TRADOC Proj ect No. 92-CEP-0921, BL Project No. 0001, published by u.S. Army Infantry School, Dismounted Warfighting Battle Lab, Battlespace Board Division, Fort Benning, GA . 10 Letter, MG White to GEN Franks, 10 December 1992, recording gUidance and comments from the 3 December Senior Officer Review. Franks Papers, SG AD , COR-098, Document 1. II Certificate of Charter, HQ, TRADOC, 26 January 1993, GEN Franks to MG White. Copy provided by DBBL. "Focal array planes" should read "focal plane arrays 12 Message, Military Deputy to the ASA(RDA) , SARD ZB, to distribution, 081 545Z Feb 93, sub Second Generation Common Module FUR Special Task Force. Jerry A. White, "Commandant's Note : Parting the Darkness," Infantry, 83:5 (September-October 1993, 1-2. 13 Jerry A. White and George T. Singley, "Horizontal Technology Integration: A New Way of Doing Business," Army, August 1994, p. 30. 14 Jerry A. White, "Commandant's Note: Infantry - Centerpiece of a Force Proj ection Army, " Infantry, 83 2 (March-April 1993), 1-2. Appendixes Notes 1 5 Message, GEN Franks Personal For GEN Sullivan, 221 556Z Mar 93, sub: Digitized Capability for Bradley. 1 6 Message, GEN Sullivan to Distribution, 192000Z Apr 93, sub: Division Commanders and TRADOC Commandants Conference, in Franks papers, SG AD , MSG-152, Document 01, pp. 45-49. 1 7 Message, GEN Ross to AMC Commanders, 03 1 900Z Aug 93, sub: 21st Century Brigade, in Franks Papers, SG AD , COR-071, Document 01, pp. 29-31. 18 Jerry A. White, "Commandant's Note: Parting the Darkness," Infantry, 83:5 (September-October 1993), 1-2. 19 U.S. Army Infantry Center, 1994 Annual Command History, pp. 130-131. Operation Night Eagle Company/Battalion Own the Night Advanced Warfighting Experiment Final Report, June 1994, TRADOC Proj ect No. 93-CEP-0185, DWBL Proj ect No. 0004, published by u.S. Army Infantry School, Dismounted Battlespace Battle Lab, Battle Space Board Division. Memorandum for Record, GEN Franks to Distribution, 1 November 1993, sub: Trip Report from Change of Command Fort Knox and Advanced Warfighting Demonstration at Fort Campbell, 13-14 October 93, in Franks Papers , SG AD , OCOR-O ll, Document 0 1, pp. 231-235. Also Star Letter, LTG c.c. Krulak to GEN Franks, 27 December 1993, noted the visit of TRADOCs liaison officer to the Marine Corps Combat Developments Center to the Marine Aviation Weapons and Tactics Squadron, Yu ma, Arizona, and the MAGTF/Expeditionary Training Center, 29 Palms, California, and forwards the trip report for Franks's information. Krulak noted that the trip report indicated several possibilities for Army-MC cooperation in battle lab-type endeavors and notes, as well Marine Corps participation in the OTN experiment at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, and other work with the DBBL. He ends by inviting additional visits and interchanges. In Franks Papers, SG AD , COR-037, Document 01. See also Memorandum for GEN Franks from MG White, 2 March 1994, sub : Owning the Night Update, which describes the results of the AWD. In Franks Papers, SG AD , COR-098, Document 01, pp. 20-21. 20 Briefing Package, DCS-CD, TRADOC, 20 October 1993, sub: LAM '93 Issues, in Franks Papers, SG AD , 930COR-012, Document 01, pp. 71-77. 21 U.S. Army Infantry Center, 1994 Annual Command History, pp. 130-131. 22 Jerry A. White, "Commandant's Note: Dismounted Battlespace Battle Lab , Putting the Ideas of the Future into Action To day, Infantry, 84:2 (March April 1994), 1-2, and Wagner, "Owning the Night," 9-12. 117
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