Stand-To!- Campaign Quality Force - August 6, 2007

Mon Aug 6 10:55:34 EDT 2007

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TODAY'S FOCUS

Campaign Quality Force

What is it? 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. 

What has the Army done? 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:

* 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.
* Increased the size of the operating force by activating eight (of the nine
planned) additional active component BCTs.
* Begun transformation of 16 Army National Guard (ARNG) BCTs to the standard
designs mentioned above.
* 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. 

What continued efforts does the Army have planned for the future? 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. 

* This topic was taken directly from the 2007 Army Posture Statement.
<http://www.army.mil/aps/07>  To continue reading this topic in its
entirety, click here. <http://www.army.mil/aps/07/infopapers/47.html> 

INFORMATION YOU CAN USE

* 2007 Strategic Communication Guide
<https://www.us.army.mil/suite/page/409993>  - Be Army Strong, and Army
Smart. Read the 2007 Army Strategic Communication Guide.

WEEKEND SPORTS WRAP-UP

*	Day 3: Shoulder pads up the intensity (GAS
<http://www.goarmysports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=11100&ATCLID=1147679
> )

NEWS ABOUT THE ARMY

*	Warblers, vireos, and tanks: Army tries new approach (EB
<http://ebird.afis.mil/ebfiles/e20070806534888.html>  | CSM
<http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0806/p01s10-usmi.html> ) 
*	Losses in Iraq hit Schweinfurt unit hard (SAS
<http://stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=47897> ) 
*	Father of fallen Soldier now battling deportation (EB
<http://ebird.afis.mil/ebfiles/e20070806534977.html>  | HC
<http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5029303.html> ) 
*	Army goes where fish are biting (SLT
<http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_6547950> )

WAR ON TERROR NEWS

*	Weapons given to Iraq are missing (EB
<http://ebird.afis.mil/ebfiles/e20070806534912.html>  | WP
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/05/AR200708050
1299.html?hpid=topnews> ) 
*	Secretary of Defense Gates: Troop surge in Iraq pays off in
heightened security (AFIS
<http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=46946> ) 
*	25,000 turn against insurgency, military says (EB
<http://ebird.afis.mil/ebfiles/e20070806535021.html>  | USAT
<http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2007-08-05-tribes_N.htm> ) 
*	Suicide truck bomb kills 28 in Iraq (WP
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/06/AR200708060
0198.html> )

OF INTEREST

*	Soldiers must be aware of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (DOE
<http://www.dothaneagle.com/gulfcoasteast/dea/local_news.apx.-content-articl
es-DEA-2007-08-05-0006.html> ) 
*	Army announces general officer moves (AT
<http://www.armytimes.com/news/2007/08/army_general_moves_070805w/> ) 
*	U.S. Army's 803rd Quartermaster Company honored (OAN
<http://www.oanow.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=OAN/MGArticle/OAN_BasicArti
cle&c=MGArticle&cid=1173352265331&path=!news> ) 
*	Camps flourish for deployed troops' kids (USAT
<http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-08-05-camps_N.htm> )

WORLD VIEW

*	U.S. Soldier sentenced to 110 years (BBC <http://news.bbc.co.uk/>  |
Story <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6930845.stm> ) 
*	Al-Qa'ida's shrine bomber is killed by U.S. Soldiers (ID
<http://www.independent.ie/>  | Story
<http://www.independent.ie/world-news/alqaidas-shrine-bomber-is-killed-by-us
-soldiers-1052572.html> ) 
*	Four more U.S. Soldiers killed in Iraq (PTV <http://www.presstv.ir/>
| Story <http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=18639&sectionid=351020201> ) 
*	U.S. Army arrests trainers of female suicide bombers (ML
<http://www.themedialine.org/>  | Story
<http://www.themedialine.org/news/news_detail.asp?NewsID=18539> )

WHAT'S BEING SAID IN BLOGS

*	Home... to the place where they belong (SSM
<http://www.somesoldiersmom.blogspot.com/> ) 
*	In the company of heroes (SM <http://soldiersmind.com/> ) 
*	The untimely recess (IM <http://iraqthemodel.blogspot.com/> ) 
*	"...A knock on the door..." 
	(MG <http://mikegulf.blogspot.com/> )

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