Warriors in Peace Operations - Strategic Studies Institute - U.S. Army
Warriors in Peace Operations - Strategic Studies Institute - U.S. Army
Warriors in Peace Operations - Strategic Studies Institute - U.S. Army
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get ready to deploy and to create a deployment operations<br />
center. I went back to see Colonel Brown, told him the DOC<br />
required a lot of work, and that I needed to get some more<br />
folks from the battalion down to help me, and needed more<br />
phones and computers immediately. He said to get<br />
whatever I needed, and to br<strong>in</strong>g down whomever I thought<br />
was necessary. So I set out to create someth<strong>in</strong>g I had never<br />
even seen before.<br />
I called Major Henderson and told him to get Major<br />
Tracy, 1st Lieutenant Chris Hsu (my S-3 Air), and some<br />
other staff officers down that afternoon. I talked to the DTO,<br />
Major Jay Warren, and immediately determ<strong>in</strong>ed he did not<br />
have the assets <strong>in</strong> the DTO’s office to run the deployment.<br />
He was overwhelmed with solv<strong>in</strong>g immediate crises and did<br />
not have a clear picture of the entire situation. I saw a G-3<br />
planner and found out the G-3 was not really controll<strong>in</strong>g the<br />
deployment process either. I tried to piece together what the<br />
deployment process was, and was surprised that there was<br />
no one <strong>in</strong> the headquarters that knew more than I did.<br />
That even<strong>in</strong>g, I went to my first “real” Battle Update<br />
Brief<strong>in</strong>g (BUB). The Division had set up a command post <strong>in</strong><br />
the recreation center on post. The CP had been significantly<br />
revamped s<strong>in</strong>ce I had seen it at Grafenwoehr. It had a large<br />
map board with the division sector <strong>in</strong> Bosnia on it, and a<br />
couple of large monitors where <strong>in</strong>formation was displayed.<br />
In pr<strong>in</strong>ciple, the area around the map board was an<br />
expanded version of what I had seen <strong>in</strong> the CP at<br />
Grafenwoehr, with the addition of a VTC capability and<br />
additional monitors. The big difference, however, was<br />
beh<strong>in</strong>d the Command<strong>in</strong>g General’s (CG) seat. The division<br />
staff was seated at tables tiered beh<strong>in</strong>d the CG <strong>in</strong> a<br />
semicircle that looked like a bandstand. Each staff officer<br />
had a computer that was hooked <strong>in</strong>to the classified local<br />
area network, a telephone, and a small work area. I would<br />
later become very <strong>in</strong>volved <strong>in</strong> this setup, but for now the<br />
only th<strong>in</strong>g I could th<strong>in</strong>k of was how noisy this place must be<br />
<strong>in</strong> a crisis.<br />
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