Team,

I am in command of Echo Maintenance Company in and ADA BN. We primarily provide field level maintenance to the BN, but we also have an organic SSA that services our BN and a few other units. The flavor Kool-Aid of the day in “expeditionary operations” and with this comes the need for our SSA to be mobile. We DO NOT have the organic…[Read more]

Team,

Does anyone have a company level Tactical SOP for sustainment units in the field. Concerning layout, defense plan, etc.? We are going to the field to do the lost art of “conduct unit defense” and I’ve noticed that there is a general lack of knowledge from me all the way down to the private on how to do this. I’ve been reading doctrine but I…[Read more]

Hello, I am a new company commander in an ADA battalion. We are MTOE’d as a maintenance company with our own SSA. With the push for more units to be “expeditionary” in both training and function I am running into a major problem. My MTOE doesn’t support it. In the fiscally constrained environment where you have to eliminate property book excess w…[Read more]

Hello all,

I am about to take command of a service battery and I have been told by my predecessor that the entire organization is officer driven. At least at the battery level they lack senior NCO leadership and all around NCO drive to do anything more than “meet the standard.” The battalions within the brigade are on a deployment rotation. The b…[Read more]