The Marine Air Ground Task Force

The United States Navy’s Bomb Squad (NEOD) is a remarkably small organization that works in small teams to accomplish worldly tasks. These obstacles range from IED to chemical and biological weapon disarmament. The Bomb Squad is responsible for operations in war zones, as well as on the home-front. With intentions of generating a more informed populous at the United States Naval Academy, a U.S. Navy Bomb Squad liaison along with numerous personnel, facilitated an 18 hour “screener” for interested personnel possibly accessing into the organization. I was fortunate enough to observe the entire innovative learning intervention and in this paper I will give a brief background, nature of the learning activity, intended

The Atlacatl was a "Rapid Deployment Infantry Battalion" mainly trained for military war. It was the first of its kind in the Salvadoran armed forces and was trained by United States military. The Atlacatl's invaded the village of El Mozote, the soldiers gathered the whole village into a square. They had divided the men, women, and the children. The had locked them in different groups inside the church, the convent, and in different houses. That morning, they proceed to question, torture, and killed the men in different locations. Noon, they began gathering the women and older girls in groups, separating them from their children and after raping the them, they gunned them down with machine guns. Even the young girls around the age of ten

“Ting, ting” is all I hear once the casing of the bullets hits the ground, that’s not the only thing that hit the ground. Women down, call the medics. Ladies weren’t allowed to join any combat services until 2013. Once they let females join the military, they started an unprecedented research effort to understand what would happen if they had mixed genders in the military. “They took the form of a year-long experiment called the Ground Combat Element Integrated Task Force, in which 400 Marines—100 of them female—trained for combat together and then undertook a simulated deployment, with every facet of their experience measured and scrutinized (Narula).” The training took place in North Carolina and California, all the training they did was

Modern times demand for adaption to an ever changing environment and has resulted in the mission scope to increase for a rapid response to countries requiring humanitarian aid, non-combatant evacuations, and quick response RAIDs in remote locations. The current organization of Marine Expeditionary Units (MEU), new contracts for Maritime Prepositioning Ship (MPS), precision weapons, improved surface assault crafts, and increase capabilities for over the horizon communications has expanded amphibious operations far more than what was thought in the

I have been a member of the organization called Civil Air Patrol for nearly four years. Within Civil Air Patrol, cadets and adults within the organization serve their communities by participating in cadet leadership programs, aerospace education, and emergency service activities.

Tactical Air Control Party (TACP) is best go-to people for advice on integrating air into the ground scheme of maneuver. Its primary function in relationship to the U.S. Army division serve as supporting role in the overall air-to-ground integrating. TACP must be synchronized with maneuver forces, as a part of their battle rhythm under the C2 of the air support operation center (ASOC). TACP is a control element located with Army maneuver forces in which are modular and can to be tailored accordingly. TACP are designed to fulfill the following five key functions: 1) Principle Air Force liaison unit co-located with Army maneuver units from battalion through corps; 2) Advice ground commanders on air limits and capabilities; 3) Joint Tactical Air

“An air assault is the movement of friendly assault forces by rotary-wing aircraft to engage and destroy enemy forces or to seize and hold key terrain” (JP 3-18). These air assaults would not be an air assault without the attack aviation element supporting them. Additionally, the use of Unmanned Aircraft Systems support air assaults by providing continuous helicopter landing zone “soaks” prior to infill as well as patterns of life observations. The attack aircraft that conduct quick reaction force operations stationed at remoted forward operating bases rely on the utility and cargo aircraft to supply ammo, fuel, POL, and parts to maintain flight operations. Again, Unmanned Aircraft Systems work directly with the attack aviation platforms employing manned unmanned teaming concepts in order to dispatch enemy elements. “An air movement is the air transport of units, personnel, supplies, and equipment including airdrops and air landings” (JP 1-02). “Security operations are those operations undertaken by the commander to provide early and accurate warning of enemy operations to provide the force being protected with the time and maneuver space to react to the enemy, and to develop the situation to allow the commander to effectively employ the protected force “(ADRP 3-90). The early and accurate warnings and the intelligence that these operations provide ensures that the air movements are traversing in as “safe” an environment as

On October 27, 2015, I was in my Air Force ROTC class, in the Cole Building (setting), at 12:30pm. During class, my ROTC teacher gave us an assignment to work in groups for 30 minutes to give a briefing of the given subject. This was a perfect opportunity to observe my friends (relationship) in their natural habitat to see if they have any themes to their behavior. In this observation, I decided to be a complete participant as I know the group members well and I don’t want them to behave differently since I am going to record their behaviors. As the ROTC left the room, I begin my observation of my three friends at 12:43pm.

Close Air Support (CAS) is a complex mission due to the interaction of ground forces and airpower in short distance from the enemy. Historical examples evidenced that cultural differences and service rivalry affected the efficiency of CAS after World War II; while on the other hand, having a joint force with proper training improved its performance. The US Air Force and US Army argued about the property of the assets as the main factor limiting efficiency, conversely the Marine Corps exploited the strength of having CAS as the rationale for their air assets to optimize its procedures. However, beyond the issue of who owns the planes, the real difference is the use of proper training to integrate air and ground forces, assimilate doctrines, and exploit the new technologies. This paper presents a review of historical examples of CAS training, the problems of current training and future challenges to enable joint training under current restrictions of budgets and availability of forces.

First, many of the policy-makers don’t understand the mission of the airborne forces. Units like the 82nd are used to provide a quick reaction force to the United States military. The airborne forces are required to conduct a parachute assault to destroy the enemy forces and overwhelm key objectives and establish an essential lodgment within a critical operational and tactical area of operations. The airborne force’s mission is an adaptable one, the battalion or division conducts a mission at all echelons, such as strategic (Operation Just Cause), operational (Operation Market Garden), and tactical level.

Since 1960, the Okinawa prefecture, along with mainland Japan and its islets, have been protected by United States military forces in accordance with the Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between the United States and Japan.

Logistics and its tactical subset, combat service support (CSS), must be transformed from a landbased system based on depth and redundancy to a seabased system focused on speed and precision. The United States Marine Corps strategic move to Expeditionary Force 21 and reconnecting with the mindset of an expeditionary force-in-readiness focused on enhancing operational maneuver from the sea, ship to objective maneuver, and seabasing in concert with the nation’s defense strategy is requiring a versatile and flexible over the horizon (OTH) logistical support platform. With the United States Marine Corps future requirements for expeditionary operations a combined Aviation and Ground Combat Service Support (CSS) ship is required to assist in

Over the course of history, the battlefield has changed with technology. The incorporation of aviation assets to help support ground operations has created many benefits. Close air support for joint operations provides over watch and security with great firepower and precision. Another great benefit is the ability for medical evacuation, support, and resupply. The combination of air assets with ground forces aids in battlefield momentum and domination over the enemy when performed without hesitation.

Military doctrine defines logistics as ‘the science of planning and carrying out the movement and maintenance of forces’.1 Logistics is the applied art of moving armies and providing for the provision of support to keep that army moving or in location. It is a continuous and never ending operation. For the purposes of this paper it may be taken that a focus on the art of sustainment — that is, the actual process of maintaining an army during operations, with a smaller focus on the administrative side. Some parts of the administration side will not be looked at in this paper, these include record keeping, discipline and medical provision. In this paper, however, I shall be concentrating on what the major logistical issues confronting

This position is that of a Senior Logistics Management Specialist, Deputy Aircraft Maintenance Material Readiness List (AMMRL) Program Manager, in the Life Cycle Management and Computer Resources Branch, Naval Air Warfare Center, Weapons Division, China Lake, California. The branch designs, develops, and implements configuration control, operation, and management of the Automated Support Equipment Recommendation Data (AUTOSERD) System, Automated Decision Support System (ADSS) and Integrated Logistics Information Data System (ILIDS). This position provides technical expertise in the planning, coordinating and integration of the total Integrated Logistics Support (ILS) efforts for all AMMRL Program support equipment. Significant effort is