PREFACE
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INTRODUCTION
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4
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A: MOBILITY
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6
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Issue A-1: Applying the Fundamentals of Assured Mobility
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6
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Issue A-2: Control and Communication Plan For Forward Passage of
Lines
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Issue A-3: Bank Preparation Time Estimates
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Issue A-4: Engineer Assets Transportation
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Issue A-5: Engineers’ Reconnaissance Capabilities
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Issue A-6: Engineer and EOD
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Issue A-7: Assured Mobility, Mines and Unexploded Ordnance (UXOs)
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Issue A-8: Route and Area Clearance Methods Impacted Mobility
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Issue A-9: Engineers and Military Operations in Urban Terrain (MOUT)
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B: SURVIVIBILITY
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Issue B-1: Engineers Provide Their Own Security
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Issue B-2: Combat Support/Combat Service Support (CS/CSS) Units and
Convoy Live Fire Operations
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C: GEOSPATIAL ENGINEERING/INTELLIGENCE
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Issue C-1: Terrain Analysis Tools as Decision Making Tools
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Issue C-2: Accurate Map Products
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D: GENERAL ENGINEERING / FIELD FORCE ENGINEERING
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Issue D-1: Equipment for the Repair of Paved, Asphalt and Concrete
Runways
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Issue D-2: Foreign Object Damage (FOD) to Rotary Wing Aircraft
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Issue D-3: Forward Engineer Support Teams (FEST)
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Issue D-4: The Forward Presence of USACE
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Issue D-5: Facility Engineer Support Teams (FEST) and Facility Engineer
Teams (FET)
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E: C4 ISR
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Issue E-1: Reception, Staging and Onward Integration (RSOI)
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Issue E-2: The Engineer Brigade Capability to Communicate
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Issue E-3: Engineers Force Modules
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Issue E-4: Echelons Above Division Task Organization
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Issue E-5: Mechanized Engineer Battalion’s Table of Equipment
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Issue E-6: Command and Control (C2) Computer Programs
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Issue E-7: Command and Control (C2) in Turkey
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Issue E-8: Force XXI Divisions Staff Engineer Section (SES) C2) Capability
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Issue E-9: Civil Affairs and Engineers Restoration of Civilian Public Works
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Issue E-10: Assured Mobility Construct
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Issue E-11: Planning Efforts were Hampered
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Issue E-12: Field Engineering Support Teams (FEST) communications
equipment
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F: ENGINEER EQUIPMENT
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Issue F-1: Engineer Squad Carrier (M113)
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Issue F-2: Armored Combat Earthmover (ACE)
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Issue F-3: Armored-Vehicle-Launched Bridge (AVLB)
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Issue F-4: Deployable Universal Combat Earthmover (DEUCE)
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Issue F-5: Mine-Clearing Line Charge (MICLIC)
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Issue F-6: D9 Dozer
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Issue F-7: Skid-steer Loaders (Bobcat®)
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Issue F-8: Engineers Lack Haul Capability
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Issue F-9: Supported Units and Engineer’s Equipment
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Issue F-10: Float Bridge
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Issue F-11: Hydraulic Excavator (HYEX)
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G: SERVICE SUPPORT
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Issue G-1: Theater Acquisition and Distribution Assets were Inadequate
to Meet the Engineer Class IV Requirements
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Issue G-2: Class IX Repair and Engineer Equipment Parts
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Issue G-3: Contract Construction Agents (CCA) and Stability Operations
and Support Operations (SOSO) Missions
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Issue G-4: Financial Controls on Administrative Contracting Officers (ACO)
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Issue G-5: Reserve Component (RC) Finance and Personnel Issues
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Issue G-6: Divisional Combat Engineer Battalions Medical Support Facility
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Issue G-7: The Engineer Battalion’s Organic Maintenance System
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Issue G-8: FEST-M in Turkey
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ANNEX A – REFFERENCES
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ANNEX B -- Blank Issue Pages For Additional Issues
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DESTRUCTION NOTICE: Destroy by any method that will prevent disclosure of contents or reconstruction of this document.
The enclosed report is the culmination of the US Army Engineer School’s effort to collect observations from Operations Iraqi Freedom and provide them to the Total Engineer Force—active, reserve, and civilian. This report is published to provide the reader with observations related to engineer issues that arose during Operation Iraqi Freedom from deployment through the end of Phase III. It focuses on the following objectives:
a. To collect engineer-related information through unit after-action reports and reviews, and other documentation.
b. To draw conclusions from assessments and focus our efforts on their improvement.
This report covers four of the five engineer battlefield functions performed by Engineers: Mobility, Survivability, Geospatial, and General Engineering. Also covered are the Battlefield Operating Systems of Command, Control, Communication, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C4ISR), as well as Engineer Equipment.
Short-term recommendations can be used by engineer units to improve ongoing training and leadership development. Long-term recommendations can be used by combat and training developers to improve the engineer force over time.
The US Army Engineer School’s Center for Engineer Lessons Learned (CELL) developed this report. We welcome any comments that may further improve the quality of our observations. Comments may be sent directly to Commandant, US Army Engineer School, ATTN: ATSE-DOT-DD, Fort Leonard Wood, MO 65473-8929. Telephone numbers are: DSN 676 4117/4106; Commercial (573) 563 4117/4106. Email: Doctrine.Engineer@wood.army.mil