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Building Combat-Ready Teams
To: Company Conn in anders
From: Company Commanders
Reflecting Upon Six Years Of Professional Conversation
The cutting-edge knowledge of the Army resides in leaders at the tip of the spear. Connecting these leaders in conversation brings together the Army's greatest knowledge resources, unleashing the power of the Army profession to improve combat effectiveness. For the past six years, CompanyCommand has featured selections of conversation taking place in the CompanyCommand online professional forum. Through these pages, hundreds of company commanders have shared their hard-earned experiences and insights with the wider profession of arms. This month, we take a short hait to consolidate and reorganize the knowledge that has been generated thus far. Read, learn and leverage samples of these articles - 20052010 - to develop your leaders and to advance our profession.
All of the articles can be publicly accessed at http:// cc.army.mil/pubs/armymagazine.
2005
Redeployed- Now What? (March 2005) Given the world situation, we need to keep improving how fast we make the transition from retrograde to refit to training again. This begins while still deployed: Conduct "in-stride" AARs [after action reviews] that capture your lessons learned and focus your future training.- Pat Work, B/1-23 IN (SBCT) & C/2-75 IN (RGR)
Training for War- What We're Learning (April 2005) Here's an addition to Murphy's Laws of Combat: "Contact with the enemy or an IED will be made by your most junior, newest Soldier." So train him and his immediate leaders to handle the situation. - Eric Lopez, C/1-87 IN
Reflexive-Fire Training - Taking Marksmanship to a New Level (May 2005) Once I was comfortable with our Soldiers' reflexive-fire techniques, we integrated individual and team movement into the drill. We rehearsed breaking contact while firing live rounds, mounting a truck and letting the gunner finish off the target set with bursts from his M249 - Jerry Diamond, A/312th Ml
The Company-Level Leadership Newsletter (June 2005) Pull your leaders together to talk about the unit's purpose and how that purpose fits into the bigger picture. Be open. Solicit input. Listen and be a catalyst for conversation rather than the "answer man." Conversations transform, and it is critical that you create an ongoing conversation about purpose in your unit. - Tony Burgess (A/2-35 IN and LRS,...