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Engineer support provided to the TUAS platoon will allow them to create a runway in almost any area allowing the TUAS platoon to provide the BCT with continuous support. If the platoon is required to perform launch and recovery operations from a main runway or field landing strip, operational support may be degraded due to having to displace equipment for safety reasons while rotary wing and air land operations are taking place. Summary None of this is rocket science but it still requires some forethought. Commanders have come to depend on Shadow to cover operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Years of operations and MREs have made the TUAS a key tool in the commander’s ISR collection. A return to FSO will not change that trend; it will however require some changes to how TUAS operations are established and secured. SFC Bryan Ward is currently the Task Force 4 (BSTB) Senior TUAS Trainer/Mentor at the JRTC. He served as the TUAS Platoon Sergeant for the 3 rd BCT, 4 th Infantry Division from July 2005 to June 2009. During the Brigade’s OIF 05-07 deployment, he served as the Platoon Sergeant and LRS NCOIC at FOB Warhorse, Baqubah and during the Brigade’s OIF deployment 07-09 deployment, served as the G2 Fusion LNO at Camp Victory Baghdad and the Consolidated LRS NCOIC at Camp Taji, Iraq. His stateside assignments include Kelly AFB, Texas, Voice Intercept Section Supervisor; Hunter Army Airfield, Georgia, Guardrail Collection Squad Leader; Fort Irwin, California, Collection and Jamming Platoon Squad Leader; Fort Huachuca, Arizona, 111 th MI Bde Training NCO, and Fort Carson, Colorado, 3 rd BCT TUAS Platoon Sergeant. Fort Huachuca became the “Home for Military Intelligence” when the Intelligence Center and School was officially created. The Intelligence School was formerly located at Fort Holabird, Maryland. The relocation made possible the long-range goal of consolidating all Army intelligence training at a single location. 32 Military Intelligence
y Captain Christopher M. Gin and Staff Sergeant Bennett J. Strobel New Dawn Challenges and the Way Ahead September 2010 heralded a significant time of change across the nation of Iraq in more ways than one. September saw the end of Ramadan, where the most devout Muslims spend their days fasting and their nights reinvigorating their relationship with Allah. For the American Army, and specifically our unit (the 1st Battalion, 14th Infantry Regiment (Stryker)) of roughly 600 Soldiers, it also marked the advent of Operation New Dawn and an end to combat operations. Now nearly eight months since this benchmark, it is prudent to look at what the change of mission means for the Intelligence Community (IC). Prior to deploying to the last months of Operation Iraqi Freedom this past June, all intelligence personnel in our Brigade were required to read Major General Flynn’s paper, “Fixing Intel: A Blueprint for Making Intelligence Relevant in Afghanistan,” and consider it the way ahead for conducting operations during our deployment. The paper was not only suggestive as a paradigm shift, but even more so directive to the IC for its implementation of new methodology for collection down to the junior analyst level. 1 The main takeaway from General Flynn’s article, as briefed by our commanders, was that the methodology behind our intelligence collection and analysis was flawed because of how narrow and enemy-focused our scope had become. Admittedly, in our previous deployment when this Battalion partnered with one Iraqi brigade and was in charge of nearly 200 square kilometers at the height of the surge, focusing on “red” was far more prominent than “white” and “green” concerns. Predictive analysis was the goal of our Battalion S2 shop almost to a fault in order to keep Soldiers safe and improve our tactics, techniques, and procedures as the enemy improved theirs in an unending game of one-upmanship. Looking at insurgency in terms of counter- versus anti-insurgency is helpful in the context of the Advise and Assist Mission, but needs to be appropriately facilitated from the top to achieve the desired implementation at the bottom. Reconciling the strategy with the implementation is the preeminent challenge for the Battalion S2 section deployed to Iraq. Identifying the Problems and Shortcomings Advising the Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) on how to take a holistic assessment of their operating environment helps them understand what drives the insurgency, and ultimately where they can apply influence to help counter it. To measure our mission success, we ought to measure ourselves by how effective we make our ISF partners in securing the population and identifying where civil issues–if unresolved by civilian government–will morph into security problems. These are precisely the target points that insurgent groups like the Islamic State of Iraq and Ansar Al Sunna take aim at to achieve the effect of discrediting the government and security forces. Attacks against U.S. Forces are infrequent when compared to provincial data at the height of the war and are assessed mainly as information operations (IO) to win populist support for groups vying for position in post-U.S. Iraq. Where we, the Army, fall short in the “advise and assist” April - June 2011 33
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