Today, X-Men Paratroopers are to be ready-to-go-to-war using Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicles (http://www.army-technology.com/projects/bradley/index.html) (IFVs or BFVs) at the same time ready to restore order and safety in event of natural disasters at home. With both a state and national strategic role, the members of X-Ray Company ("X-men") are always on the go training, responding and traveling to diverse locales..we traveled to the deserts of the National Training Center (NTC) in California, the many posts of the U.S. Army (McClellan, Knox, Benning, Joint Readiness Training Center (JRTC) Fort Polk, LA) to the security post of your neighborhood threatened by a flood. Home station drills can include M-COFT Bradley Fighting Vehicle computer simulations, Common Task Training (CTT), Threat, SAEDA, Modern AIRLAND Battlefield Briefings, TacWar games using miniature Armored Fighting Vehicle (AFV) models and physical fitness training to name just a few.
To join us, contact SFC Goldfinger at (800) GO!-ARMY or the unit webmaster via the email link provided. CASH enlistment bonuses are available on top of the Montgomery G.I. Bill to help pay for your college education.
Non-prior service
---a great place to start your life on the right foot!
Prior service Soldiers (http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/Quarters/soldier.htm) and
Paratroopers (http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/7963/paratrooper.htm)
A great place to keep your military career progressing--Action, Travel, great benefits always!
To stay on top of today's battlefield requires much study--you can begin here by reading some of the military books listed here available through your local library or sometimes online.
Military Reading List (http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/Quarters/2116/probooks.htm)
(U.S. Army manuals online)
U.S. Army Manuals online Table of Contents (http://155.217.58.58)BRADLEY CREW SKILLS: need to stay current on 25mm/7.62mm co-ax gunnery, TOW ATGM firing, M231 firing port weapons?
Sign up for a password with the ATDL home page above, then click on this link to the 11M Soldier's Manual:
http://155.217.58.58/cgi-bin/atdl.dll/stp/stp+7-11m14-sm-tg/stptoc.html
BRADLEY-EQUIPPED INFANTRY TACTICAL EMPLOYMENT (doesn't require a password)
FM 7-8 Infantry Platoon and Squad (http://155.217.58.58/cgi-bin/atdl.dll/fm/7-8/toc.htm) (dismounted action)
FM 21-75 Combat Skills of the Soldier (http://155.217.58.58/cgi-bin/atdl.dll/fm/21-75/toc.htm)
FM 90-5 Jungle Operations (http://155.217.58.58/cgi-bin/atdl.dll/fm/90-5/toc.htm)
FM 21-150 Combatives (Hand to Hand combat) (http://155.217.58.58/cgi-bin/atdl.dll/fm/21-150/toc.htm)
FM 19-15 Civil Disturbances (http://155.217.58.58/cgi-bin/atdl.dll/fm/19-15/toc.htm)
FM 23-31 M203 40mm Grenade Launcher (http://155.217.58.58/cgi-bin/atdl.dll/fm/23-31/f2331.htm)
FM 23-10 Sniper employment (http://155.217.58.58/cgi-bin/atdl.dll/fm/23-10/toc.htm)
FM 23-14 M249 Light Machine Gun (http://155.217.58.58/cgi-bin/atdl.dll/fm/23-14/fm2314.htm)
FM 23-23 M18 Claymore Anti-Personnel mine (http://155.217.58.58/cgi-bin/atdl.dll/fm/23-23/toc.htm)
Light Anti-Armor Weapons (http://155.217.58.58/cgi-bin/atdl.dll/fm/23-25/fm2325.htm) (M136 AT4 and M72A2 LAAW)
FM 44-80 Visual Aircraft Identification
Mike Gulf's World of Armored Vehicles (http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/5423/index.html)
More on the Bradley IFV (http://www.army-technology.com/projects/bradley/index.html
Image courtesy of CG˛ Inc. http://www.cg2.com..Thanks Ms. Tricia Garcia!
COMBINED ARMS wargames using metal miniatures on terrain board/sand tables:
http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/Quarters/2116/ezwargames.htm
MOUNTED COMBAT SIMULATION
Armored FIST 2: M1A2 and M2A2 BFV Company Team in the desert FREE download
This is an AWESOME, realistic simulation of mounted combat, basically M-COFT and SIMNET in your PC. You can play it right now on your keyboard after downloading. Pressing the /? key will give you the keyboard commands to play the game.
DISMOUNTED COMBAT SIMULATION
Delta Force attack on drug plant in jungle FREE download
This is the best dismounted combat simulation I've found to date using current U.S. weapons, to compliment mounted tasks detailed in Armored Fist 2 in the link above.
Click the link below to enroll and learn more about the U.S. Army's Battlefield Operating Systems today!
http://155.217.35.238/accp/accp_top.htm
About the Fort's history/units
http://www.mcclellan.army.mil/mcclellan.htm
Main Post Map
http://www.mcclellan.army.mil/post_map.htm
Pelham Range
http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/Bunker/1677/pelham.htm
Emergency phone numbers to MPs/post officials
http://www.mcclellan.army.mil/staff-dir/staff.htm
Training Resources/Range control
http://www.mcclellan.army.mil/staff-dir/dptmsec.htm
Soldiers in our Company are trained when numbers permit, to be Combat Lifesavers (CLS) capable of rendering emergency battlefield medical aid. Details of the CLS program are below:
http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/Quarters/2116/combatlifesaver.htm
Every 2 years, our best Soldiers (http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/Quarters/2116/soldier.htm) volunteer for Expert Infantryman Badge (EIB) testing which can garner them the coveted EIB to wear on their uniform and our unit a streamer on our guidon if a high percentage of our Soldiers are EIB qualified.
http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/9063
> These are links you should go to at least once a week to stay informed about what is going on on the modern battlefield!
Current events:
U.S. Army Times Online
http://www.armytimes.com
Armed Forces Journal International (AFJI)
http://www.afji.com
Aviation Week & Space technology
http://www.aviationweek.com
AWWG Military Internet Research Cluster
Defense News Intelligence Center (register)
Official Israeli Defense Forces Web site
Best Airborne Operations Research Links
Airborne Operations: A German Appraisal
Tom Hunter's Special Operations site
Why not an American Airborne Infantry Fighting Vehicle? By Stan Crist
Major Chuck Payne's Special Operations pages
Colonel David Hackworth: America's tactical commentator
JRTC: THE BOOK--The Battle for Hunger Hill by Col Dan Bolger U.S. Army
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0891414533/qid%3D913540926/002-5871296-8067866
OPFOR: the uniforms, the men, the equipment, vehicles and aircraft
Fort Polk maps (best viewed in NETSCAPE browser)
Full-length version of JRTC Rules
http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/Quarters/2116/probooks.htm
Research a topic on the internet; TRACER-LOCK will look for it and send you web sites, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week:
http://www.peacefire.org/tracerlock
Professional Military Development online: how to get promoted, get college, know your profession of arms
http://leader.linkexchange.com/1/X675339/showiframe?
A College degree dedicated to Military Arts/Science? Where?
American Military University
Where to Get Help
Active duty military personnel with questions or concerns about their service in the Persian Gulf region - contact your commanding officer or call the Department of Defense (DoD) Persian Gulf Veterans' Hotline(1-800-796-9699) for an examination.
Persian Gulf veterans with concerns about their health - contact the nearest VA medical center. The telephone number can be found in the local telephone directory under Department of Veterans Affairs in the "U.S. Government"
listings. A Persian Gulf Registry examination will be offered. Treatment will be provided to eligible veterans. The VA Persian Gulf Information Helpline can also provide the latest information and assistance. The toll-free telephone
number is 1-800-PGW-VETS (1-800-749-8387).
Persian Gulf veterans in need of marital/family counseling - contact the nearest VA medical center or VA vet center. For additional information, call the Persian Gulf Information Helpline at 1-800-PGW-VETS (1-800-749-8387).
Persian Gulf veterans seeking disability compensation for illnesses incurred in or aggravated by military service - contact a Veterans Benefits Counselor at the nearest VA regional office or health care facility at 1-800-827-1000,
or call the VA Persian Gulf Information Helpline at 1-800-PGW-VETS (1-800-749-8387).
Persian Gulf veterans seeking participation for their spouses and/or children in the VA-funded health examination program for spouses and children - call the VA Persian Gulf Information Helpline at 1-800-PGW-VETS (1-800-749-8387).
Veterans interested in the alternative self-funded examination for spouses and children - contact the Persian Gulf Registry Coordinator at the nearest VA medical center for forms and information.
Persian Gulf veterans interested in learning about the wide range of benefit programs administered by VA - contact a Veterans Benefits Counselor at the nearest VA regional office or health care facility at 1-800-827-1000,or call the VA Persian Gulf Information Helpline at 1-800-PGW-VETS (1-800-749-8387).
Anyone with first-hand information about "incidents" that occurred in the Southwest Asia theater of operations during the Persian Gulf War that may be related to health problems experienced by military personnel who served in the War - call the DoD "Incidents" Hotline at 1-800-472-6719.
For additional information about VA's program initiatives, see VA's Persian Gulf War veterans' illnesses home page at http://www.va.gov/gulf.htm
Note: Representatives of veterans service organizations, including the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, Disabled American Veterans, etc., may also be very helpful to Persian Gulf veterans.
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