A soldier preps a block of C-4
during demolitions training.
4th brigade combat Team, 1st Armored division soldiers advance
on a target house during a training exercise in Florida.
ready for immediate assignments to
deploying units.
casey calls this an “enterprise
venient for the army recruiting Marine corps first-term recruit approach” to organizing the army.
command to keep writing them contracts, by contrast, allow enough the idea is to gain greater cohesion
the way it has for years, but now time for recruits to complete basic in structure, culture, and purpose.
tour lengths don’t align well with training and advanced training and army leaders have identified four
a rotational model demanding make two deployments. “that’s the core enterprises: personnel, ma-
wartime deployments, he says. Bri- type of synchronization we have to teriel, services and infrastructure,
gades preparing for deployment do,” casey says. and readiness. casey has appointed
find they have 175 to 200 soldiers the army also has been out of a four-star or three-star officer to
who can’t deploy. these soldiers step with unit rotations through ad- be in charge of each.
“only have five or six months left on vanced training courses. for years, “their job is to integrate all the
their contracts, so what do you do the emphasis was on operating different stovepipes that are out
with them? in personnel vernacular schools efficiently. the new focus there,” casey says. “every large or-
they’re ‘ice cubes,’ because they just will be on “output” from schools ganization has stovepipes; we have
melt,” he says. — trained captains and sergeants about 26 of them coming into the
Department [of the army].”
in time, that number will de-
crease to four. this enterprise ap-
proach challenges traditional
mindsets and old ways of doing
business so the army adapts to new
requirements. it’s a holistic ap-
proach to an evolving rotational
force, with a greater emphasis on
collaboration, planning, and trans-
parency, according to casey.
Sustaining troop strength
Gen. charles c. “Hondo” camp-
bell, commanding general of U.S.
army forces command, heads the
readiness core enterprise. in June,
casey discusses future Army deployments and structure with officers and
campbell hosted more than 430
NCOs from the U.S. Army Europe’s 172nd Infantry Brigade in October.
military officers and senior officials
in atlanta to discuss preparations
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photos: Above, dAve melAncon; top left, stAff sgt. stephen j. otero, usAf;
top right, stAff sgt. jAmes p. hunter, usA
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