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<DIV id=date>Edition: Mon, August 06, 2007<BR><A
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<H2>TODAY'S FOCUS</H2>
<P><B>Campaign Quality Force</B><BR><BR><B>What is it?</B> In order to meet the
complex, full spectrum challenges of the 21st century, security environment
America’s Army must be both joint and expeditionary, and campaign quality. A
campaign quality Army is an Army capable of sustaining operations for as long as
necessary to achieve the required tactical, operational, and strategic outcomes.
A campaign quality force has not only the capabilities required to meet any
challenge, but the capacity to sustain those capabilities for as long as the
Joint Force Commander requires. <BR><BR><B>What has the Army done?</B> Our
Soldiers continue to answer the call to duty while simultaneously transforming
the Army into a campaign quality force with joint and expeditionary
capabilities. Much of the comprehensive transformation underway within the Army
today is aimed squarely at creating a force with the depth, flexibility and
agility to sustain operations in an environment of continuous conflict. In order
to build a campaign quality force, the Army has:<BR><BR>• Established common
organizational designs for Heavy, Infantry, and Stryker brigade combat teams
(BCTs) and other types of modular Support Brigades and operational headquarters
across both the active and reserve components. These common designs facilitate
both joint and combined planning and rotation of forces to sustain
operations.<BR>• Increased the size of the operating force by activating eight
(of the nine planned) additional active component BCTs.<BR>• Begun
transformation of 16 Army National Guard (ARNG) BCTs to the standard designs
mentioned above.<BR>• Begun initial implementation of the Army Force Generation
process (ARFORGEN), a cyclical readiness process which provides a steady flow of
trained and ready units to combatant commanders and civil authorities.
<BR><BR><B>What continued efforts does the Army have planned for the future?</B>
The Army will continue to execute modular conversion and implement ARFORGEN to
build a campaign quality force with joint and expeditionary capabilities. In
2007, the Army will continue modular conversions of four AC and seven RC BCTs,
13 AC and 10 RC Support Bdes, headquarters and theater across both the active
and reserve components. <BR><BR>• This topic was taken directly from the <A
href="http://www.army.mil/aps/07" target=_blank>2007 Army Posture Statement.</A>
To continue reading this topic in its entirety, <A
href="http://www.army.mil/aps/07/infopapers/47.html" target=_blank>click
here.</A><BR></P>
<H2>INFORMATION YOU CAN USE</H2>
<P>• <A href="https://www.us.army.mil/suite/page/409993" target=_blank><B>2007
Strategic Communication Guide</B></A> - Be Army Strong, and Army Smart. Read the
2007 Army Strategic Communication Guide.</P>
<H2>WEEKEND SPORTS WRAP-UP</H2>
<P>
<UL>
<LI><B>Day 3: Shoulder pads</B> up the intensity (<A
href="http://www.goarmysports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=11100&ATCLID=1147679"
target=_blank>GAS</A>)</LI></UL>
<P></P></DIV>
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<H2>NEWS ABOUT THE ARMY</H2>
<P>
<UL>
<LI><B>Warblers, vireos, and tanks: </B>Army tries new approach (<A
href="http://ebird.afis.mil/ebfiles/e20070806534888.html" target=_blank>EB</A>
| <A href="http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0806/p01s10-usmi.html"
target=_blank>CSM</A>)
<LI><B>Losses in Iraq</B> hit Schweinfurt unit hard (<A
href="http://stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=47897"
target=_blank>SAS</A>)
<LI><B>Father of fallen Soldier</B> now battling deportation (<A
href="http://ebird.afis.mil/ebfiles/e20070806534977.html" target=_blank>EB</A>
| <A href="http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5029303.html"
target=_blank>HC</A>)
<LI><B>Army goes</B> where fish are biting (<A
href="http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_6547950" target=_blank>SLT</A>)</LI></UL>
<P></P>
<H2>WAR ON TERROR NEWS</H2>
<P>
<UL>
<LI><B>Weapons given to Iraq</B> are missing (<A
href="http://ebird.afis.mil/ebfiles/e20070806534912.html" target=_blank>EB</A>
| <A
href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/05/AR2007080501299.html?hpid=topnews"
target=_blank>WP</A>)
<LI><B>Secretary of Defense Gates: Troop surge in Iraq pays off</B> in
heightened security (<A
href="http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=46946"
target=_blank>AFIS</A>)
<LI><B>25,000 turn against insurgency,</B> military says (<A
href="http://ebird.afis.mil/ebfiles/e20070806535021.html" target=_blank>EB</A>
| <A href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2007-08-05-tribes_N.htm"
target=_blank>USAT</A>)
<LI><B>Suicide truck bomb kills 28</B> in Iraq (<A
href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/06/AR2007080600198.html"
target=_blank>WP</A>)</LI></UL>
<P></P>
<H2>OF INTEREST</H2>
<P>
<UL>
<LI><B>Soldiers must be aware</B> of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (<A
href="http://www.dothaneagle.com/gulfcoasteast/dea/local_news.apx.-content-articles-DEA-2007-08-05-0006.html"
target=_blank>DOE</A>)
<LI><B>Army announces</B> general officer moves (<A
href="http://www.armytimes.com/news/2007/08/army_general_moves_070805w/"
target=_blank>AT</A>)
<LI><B>U.S. Army's 803rd Quartermaster Company</B> honored (<A
href="http://www.oanow.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=OAN/MGArticle/OAN_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1173352265331&path=!news"
target=_blank>OAN</A>)
<LI><B>Camps flourish</B> for deployed troops' kids (<A
href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-08-05-camps_N.htm"
target=_blank>USAT</A>)</LI></UL>
<P></P>
<H2>WORLD VIEW</H2>
<P>
<UL>
<LI><B>U.S. Soldier sentenced</B> to 110 years (<A
href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/" target=_blank>BBC</A> | <A
href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6930845.stm"
target=_blank>Story</A>)
<LI><B>Al-Qa'ida's shrine bomber</B> is killed by U.S. Soldiers (<A
href="http://www.independent.ie/" target=_blank>ID</A> | <A
href="http://www.independent.ie/world-news/alqaidas-shrine-bomber-is-killed-by-us-soldiers-1052572.html"
target=_blank>Story</A>)
<LI><B>Four more U.S. Soldiers</B> killed in Iraq (<A
href="http://www.presstv.ir/" target=_blank>PTV</A> | <A
href="http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=18639&sectionid=351020201"
target=_blank>Story</A>)
<LI><B>U.S. Army arrests trainers</B> of female suicide bombers (<A
href="http://www.themedialine.org/" target=_blank>ML</A> | <A
href="http://www.themedialine.org/news/news_detail.asp?NewsID=18539"
target=_blank>Story</A>)</LI></UL>
<P></P>
<H2>WHAT'S BEING SAID IN BLOGS</H2>
<P>
<UL>
<LI><B>Home... to the place</B> where they belong (<A
href="http://www.somesoldiersmom.blogspot.com/" target=_blank>SSM</A>)
<LI><B>In the company</B> of heroes (<A href="http://soldiersmind.com/"
target=_blank>SM</A>)
<LI><B>The untimely</B> recess (<A href="http://iraqthemodel.blogspot.com/"
target=_blank>IM</A>)
<LI><B>"...A knock</B> on the door..." <BR>(<A
href="http://mikegulf.blogspot.com/" target=_blank>MG</A>)</LI></UL>
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