Emphasis Put on Infantry Skills (01/01/2006)
“All branches are going to more infantry skills,” the command sergeant major of the Engineer School said about the battle-focused training that permeates today’s Army schoolhouse.
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‘Full Scenario Immersion’ is Training Goal (01/01/2006)
To Lt. Col. Reinhard “Rhino” Koenig, the changes in the 14-week engineer one station unit training at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., are obvious. “If somebody told me two years ago, we’d have live fire from moving vehicles, I’d say they were crazy.”
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‘Graders are Finesse’ (01/01/2006)
Brian Jenner first learned how to operate heavy equipment at the Navy’s Seabee school in Gulfport, Miss., more than 20 years ago. Now as a Navy chief, he is teaching soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines how to grade. “I’d always wanted to be an equipment operator. ...Big earthmoving equipment looked better than swinging a hammer.”
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Inside the Shoot House (01/01/2006)
Pfc. Mark Kimmery, Pvt . Brandon Koop and Pfc. Zachary Whisenhunt were halfway through the morning of their third day of Battle Focused Training at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. The three – all in the engineer school’s advanced individual training for heavy construction equipment mechanics – had five more intense training days to go.
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‘Instant Credibility’ With Students’ (01/01/2006)
Cpts. Andrew Naphy and Mike Miller are playing a significant role in the way engineer officer students are educated. As Naphy said, “Our role is to teach them how they are going to tactically apply” what they have learned in the classroom and in field exercises to what they may soon experience in Afghanistan or Iraq.
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Benning, Sill to Support Officer Leadership Course (01/01/2006)
The Army will transition from the pilot phase of the Basic Officer Leader Course to full implementation in June 2006, senior officials said recently.
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10 Years Of Change in 10 Months for Officer Education (01/01/2006)
The changes in officer education – the creation of a common core of instruction for all at selected installations, followed by branch education “is a great approach,” Col. Paul Kelly, who oversees engineer officer education, said, adding “over the past 10 months, we put 10 years of change into our officer courses.”
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15,000 Soldiers Train as Engineers Annually (01/01/2006)
In the three years that he has been executive officer of the 1st Engineer Training Brigade, Lt. Col. Jeff McClure has witnessed “enlisted training going through some monumental changes.”
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Sapper Leader Course Designed to be Tough (01/01/2006)
The 28-day Sapper Leadership Course is designed to be tough, and it is. Graduation is certainly not a lock. As Capt. Grant Sketo, the company commander of the detachment that runs the course, said, “It’s a train-the trainer approach” to the platoon leaders – specialists through staff sergeants and company commanders who take the two-phase course that is offered 10 times a year.
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