Here are the articles that were published on the PS Magazine website the month of December, 2021:
Soldiers from 1st Battalion, 50th Infantry Regiment, 198th Infantry Brigade, maneuver as an Infantry Rifle Squad (By Patrick Albright, US Army)
Category Archives: Readiness
PS Magazine Weekly Roll-up
22-26 November 2021
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Here are the articles that appeared on the PS Magazine website over the past week (22-26 November 2021):
A coalition member waits to board a Blackhawk helicopter before a mission to target known terrorist threats in Northern Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom (Photo by Seaman Zachary Hernandez)
PS Magazine Weekly Roll-up
15-19 November 2021
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Here are the articles that appeared on the PS Magazine website over the past week (15-19 November 2021):
U.S. Army National Guard Soldiers, 102nd Cavalry Regiment, call in radio support during CASEVAC training on Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Michael Schwenk)
PS Magazine Weekly Roll-up
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Here are the articles that appeared on the PS Magazine website over the past week (8-12 November 2021):
An M1A2 tank crew with the 116th Cavalry Regiment conducts live-fire gunnery qualification (U.S Army photo by Sgt Mason Cutrer)
PS Magazine Weekly Roll-up
25-29 October 2021
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Here are the articles that appeared on the PS Magazine website over the past week (25-29 October 2021):
UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter crew maintaining their combat readiness and M240 machine gun skills (U.S. Army photo by Capt. Tyson Friar)
Battalion sUAS Platoon
Building capability through restructuring the sUAS program at the battalion level
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The modern-day maneuver company commander juggles many priorities in the execution of their duties. Among these is the management of their small Unmanned Aircraft System (sUAS) program. This includes both the standard Raven or even the bigger, fancier Puma. But these assets are often squandered at the company level. The need to train a proficient crew, employ the system and deconflict air space is too much for company commanders to manage. The management of this program should be at the battalion level. This results in a better managed, utilized and integrated sUAS program, while allowing maneuver company commanders to focus on what is actually important: the fight.
The Army could see new rucksack-portable drones in the force in short order, according to the Army’s program executive officer for aviation. (Capt. Justin Wright/U.S. Army)
Relationship Building
Training at Echelon as a BCT MICO Commander
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The most important relationship in the Brigade Combat Team (BCT) Intelligence War-fighting Function (IWfF) is between the BCT S2 Officer in Charge (OIC) and the Military Intelligence Company Commander (MICO CDR). These two have to own the problems and solve them. They accomplish this through a holistic intelligence enterprise, rather than divided as MICO problems or S2 problems. That mindset discourages collaboration. At times, it is an insurmountable obstacle. But it requires motivated, talented leaders engaged at every echelon from the MICO teams, BN/BCT S2 sections, and BN/BCT CDRs.
Every mission in the Army is essential and every MOS enables victory – deploy, fight, win, and bring our Soldiers home. (U.S. Army Photo submitted by the Author)
PS Magazine Weekly Roll-up
18-22 October 2021
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Here are the articles that appeared on the PS Magazine website over the past week (18-22 October 2021):
1-2 Stryker Brigade Combat Team conducts training at Yakima Training Center, WA. (U.S. Army Photo by MAJ Mike Mason)
PS Magazine
Readiness is Our Mission
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Leaders at all levels, from privates to generals, are ultimately responsible for success or failure on the battlefield. A huge part of preparing for combat is making sure the myriad of equipment, vehicles and weapons used by soldiers can perform when needed. That also extends to supply and logistics functions, the lifeblood of all combat operations.
From an Army Information Digest article, April 1964
The CBRN RECCE Platoon
Training and Preparing for JRTC and Beyond
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In December 2017, as part of the 3BCT, 101st ABN (AASLT) Brigade Field Training Exercise, my Dismounted Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and (CBRN) Reconnaissance (RECCE) Platoon received a mission to support an infantry battalion task force air assault operation to seize an objective with an underground storage facility for chemical weapons. In planning and executing this training mission, we validated many aspects of our individual and team collective training leading up to this BCT collective training exercise. We also identified many of the challenges and gaps in our training both internal to the CBRN RECCE Platoon and ways the Brigade Engineer Battalion and the BCT could facilitate better training.
Army Reserve and National Guard soldiers; engineers; chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) specialists; as well as medical units conduct Defense Support of Civil Authorities (DSCA) training to help prepare them to respond to a CBRN catastrophe at home or abroad. (Sgt. 1st Class Brent Powell)