Posted on Oct 27, 2015
Are we still teaching the Fundamentals of Reconnaissance?
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Ensure continuous reconnaissance
Do not keep reconnaissance assets in reserve
Orient on the reconnaissance objective
Report all information rapidly and accurately
Retain freedom of maneuver
Gain and maintain threat contact
Develop the situation rapidly
Do not keep reconnaissance assets in reserve
Orient on the reconnaissance objective
Report all information rapidly and accurately
Retain freedom of maneuver
Gain and maintain threat contact
Develop the situation rapidly
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MSG (Join to see) thanks for the post, I strongly advocate it on all movement for training and more important the battlespace, it is key to success. I was a BSFV (Bradley Stinger Fighting Vehicle) Driver and Stinger Missile Crewmember, we used the word RSOP (Recon Select Occupied Position) when setting up our CP, A-O and moving throughout the battlespace. Back in the day before Desert Shield/Storm we got ARTEP on those skills and it helped us keep our combat edge.
SFC Mark Merino LTC Stephen F. SP5 Michael Rathbun SFC William Swartz Jr SSG James J. Palmer IV aka "JP4" 1SG (Join to see) SGT Randal Groover CSM Charles Hayden CPT L S CW5 Charlie Poulton CW5 (Join to see) SFC A.M. Drake MAJ Ken Landgren LTC (Join to see) Sgt David G Duchesneau SGM Mikel Dawson COL Mikel J. Burroughs MAJ Robert (Bob) Petrarca TSgt Hunter Logan SP5 Michael Rathbun
SFC Mark Merino LTC Stephen F. SP5 Michael Rathbun SFC William Swartz Jr SSG James J. Palmer IV aka "JP4" 1SG (Join to see) SGT Randal Groover CSM Charles Hayden CPT L S CW5 Charlie Poulton CW5 (Join to see) SFC A.M. Drake MAJ Ken Landgren LTC (Join to see) Sgt David G Duchesneau SGM Mikel Dawson COL Mikel J. Burroughs MAJ Robert (Bob) Petrarca TSgt Hunter Logan SP5 Michael Rathbun
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MAJ Ken Landgren
Robert E Lee was perturbed and was handicapped by his cavalry commander Gen Stuart who failed to report Union movements and participated in the inconsequential mission of raiding the Unions rear, thereby leaving Robert E Lee blind as he maneuvered his army.
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CSM Charles Hayden
MAJ Ken Landgren - That is ok Major. We'uns Yankee's General Custer made up for Stuart's joy ride @ Gettysburg!
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MAJ Ken Landgren
CSM Charles Hayden - SCOUTS beyond this hill is the largest gathering of Indians we have seen. CUSTER charge!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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SFC William Swartz Jr
The fundamentals are being instilled during 19D OSUT and A-BOLC, not sure how much those fundamentals are being "built" upon when these fine young Troopers get to their units upon graduation. ARTEPs used to be utilized to "test" a units proficiency in its METL tasks and units trained for those core tasks throughout the year, it seems like once we hit the '90s there was a shortage of funds to actually conduct the same amount of training that we had conducted a few years prior, and the ARTEPs went by the wayside as we drew down our forces following DS/DS. I am hopeful for the sake of our Army that they find their way back to the way we trained when I first enlisted in the late '80s and that the Army as a whole regains the technical and tactical edges that made us the Army that we were.
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My question to this thread is: Are we beginning to rely too much on electronic recon or is it about right? Can we correctly assess a situation from eyes in the sky as we can with boots and eyes on the ground?
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MAJ Ken Landgren
SGM Mikel Dawson - The answer is yes. We have to be at their level to see at their level so we can kill them on their level.
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SGM Mikel Dawson
MAJ Ken Landgren - I remember the route recon skills we learned as 12B. I just wonder today how much of this is being taught or is most of it beginning to rely on electronic recon? All the time I spent figuring water crossing, slopes, turn radius, road density.
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SSG Jason Sabin
Reinforcing those basic scout skills and teaching newer skills (body language at a distance, haptics, patterns of life, etc.), and the core skills such as Land Nav, Call for fire, Fieldcraft, if scouts are strong in the basics and understand the mission the electronics became, "for the most part", multipliers. Also the new skills required, operating this equipment, troubleshooting, PMCS, can only add to a Scouts toolbox.
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