This story has been corrected JALREZ VALLEY, Wardak Second Lt. Branden Irvine lay awake all night thinking about it. His second mission, looking for a fight. The good-luck coin hung above his bed, and he looked at it and remembered. It was a gift from his ex-girlfriend’s mother, so not exactly Hollywood romantic, but it was there and it would do. Yet luck could not calm his mind. Irvine surveyed the details of the mission and surveyed them again. Set up an ambush. Catch the Taliban unprepared. Kill them. He imagined scenarios. He wondered how he would do. “If this.” “If that.”
Combat Aviation Brigade, 1st Armored Division Leadership
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COL Geoffrey A. Whittenberg
Colonel Geoffrey A. Whittenberg graduated as a Distinguished Military Graduate from Oklahoma State University s ROTC program in 1997, with a degree in Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources (Forestry), and received his commission as an Aviation Officer. He attended the Aviation Officer Basic Course and graduated flight school in 1998 as an OH-58D-rated Aviator.
His first assignment after flight school was in the 1st Battalion, 10th Aviation Regiment, 10th Mountain Division, Fort Drum, New York, where he served as a platoon leader, deploying to Bosnia in support of Operation Joint Forge and subsequently as the battalion assistant S-3. Following the Aviation Advanced Course, COL Whittenberg served in the 3rd Squadron, 7th Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division (Mechanized), Fort Stewart, Georgia, where he served as the squadron S1, deploying to Kuwait and Iraq in support of Operatio
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The Pentagon has just released a new manual that lays out how the United States might destroy North Korea’s nukes.
Army Techniques Publication No. 3-90.40, “Combined Arms Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction,” explains U.S. doctrine for neutralizing WMDs. The guidelines focus on the nuts and bolts of counter-WMD combined-arms operations by brigade combat teams, or BCTs. In other words, how regular Army combat brigades should deal with nuclear, biological or chemical weapons.
Though the manual doesn’t specifically mention North Korea, many of its recommendations would apply should large formations of U.S. ground troops enter North Korea. Regardless of whether the goal is regime change, a punitive incursion or destroying WMDs, it is quite possible that American troops would encounter production, storage or launch facilities for weapons of mass destruction.