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Branch Orientation

Branch Orientation. Benjamin Brownlee MS-I W&J ROTC. Branch Orientation Information Briefing. This briefing is unclassified. Inform cadets of various Army branches available to them for their Army careers. Aid in cadets’ decisions in commissioning. Combat Arms: Infantry.

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Branch Orientation

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  1. Branch Orientation Benjamin Brownlee MS-I W&J ROTC

  2. Branch OrientationInformation Briefing • This briefing is unclassified. • Inform cadets of various Army branches available to them for their Army careers. • Aid in cadets’ decisions in commissioning.

  3. Combat Arms:Infantry • Forms the heart of the Army’s fighting strength. • Goal: Destroy or capture the enemy, or repel his assault by fire, close combat, and counter attack. • Only close combat between ground forces decides battles. • Rifle forces play a key role in close combat situations: • Infantry, airborne, air assault, light, and rangers • Home of the infantry: Fort Benning, Georgia • Closed to women

  4. Infantry Officers • Must maintain combat readiness at all times. • Infantry leaders must be excellent leaders and take care of soldiers • Platoon or company commanders and staff work • Higher levels offer increased responsibility • “The Army’s greatest challenge”

  5. Rangers Army Rangers are elite infantry soldiers, formed as early as 1676 in America under Colonel Benjamin Church. - Organized into “Roger’s Rangers,” 9 companies for the Frenchand Indian War and the Revolution. Pointe du Hoc Long Range Reconnaissance Patrols (LRRP) in Vietnam “Black Hawk Down” Led the Invasion of Afghanistan, 2001

  6. 75th Ranger Regiment Members of the 75th Ranger Regiment participate in the Ranger Rendezvous in 2009

  7. Air Assault Today, the Air Assault mission is the primary role of the 101st Airborne Division. Key operations in the Vietnam War, Invasion of Iraq 1994: 10th Mountain DivisionArmy’s first Air Assault from an Aircraft carrier(Army’s largest operation from an aircraft carrier since the Doolittle Raid)

  8. Combat Support:Military Intelligence • Mission: To provide timely, relevant, accurate and synchronized intelligence and electronic warfare support to commanders. • Part of the Army since its founding in 1775. • 1863: General Hooker establishes the Bureau of Military Information • 1885: Military Intelligence Division; reorganized as the Military Intelligence Service in 1942.

  9. MI Details • Consists of 28,000 military and 3,800 civilian personnel; one of the largest Army branches. • Determines an enemy’s plans, intentions and capabilities. • Battlefield Surveillance Brigades: Improve situational awareness for commanders at division level and higher

  10. MI Officers • Engaged in fighting the “silent war” at tactical, operational and strategic levels. • Collect and disseminate intelligence data. • New officers attend MI Officer Basic Course • How to collect and provide intelligence reports to others • Work with high-tech equipment in radio communications, computer analysis, digital imaging, and satellite data.

  11. 101st MI BattallionA soldier pushes a Shadow 200 UAV

  12. Combat Service SupportOrdnance Corps • The largest Corps in the Army. • The Ordnance Corps is responsible for keeping the Army's combat forces moving and shooting. • Develop, produce, acquire and support the Army's weapons systems, ammunition, missiles, and wheeled and tracked vehicles. • Provide Explosive Ordnance Disposal, during peace and war.

  13. Ordnance Corps Officers • New officers attend the Ordnance Officer Basic Course at either the U.S. Army Ordnance Center and School or the U.S. Army Ordnance Missile and Munitions Center and School • Leaders must be smart and articulate. • Manage large groups of personnel and high-tech equipment • Officers trained in one of the areas of: • Tank/Automotive Materiel Management • Missile/Electronic Materiel Management • Munitions Materiel Management • Explosive Ordnance Disposal

  14. Explosive Ordnance Disposal

  15. Reference Material and Sources • http://www.us-army-info.com/pages/branches.html • http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/agency/army/branch.htm • http://www.villanova.edu/artsci/rotc/branches/ • http://www.benning.army.mil/infantry/

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