Posted on 05/14/2004 1:18:48 PM PDT by Cannoneer No. 4
The Army announced today that it will adjust the design of the fourth Stryker Brigade Combat Team (SBCT) from a Cavalry to an Infantry configuration.
The 2d Armored Cavalry Regiment (Light), stationed at Fort Polk, La., will begin the transformation to an Infantry-based Stryker Brigade upon its return from Operation Iraqi Freedom. The unit is expected to attain an initial operational capability (IOC) as an infantry-designed SBCT by late 2006.
The conversion of the 2d ACR to an infantry-centric SBCT supports the Army’s transition to modularity, standardizes the design for all six planned SBCTs, and increases the number of Army infantry formations available to combatant commanders worldwide to set the tempo of battle and act decisively against enemy forces.
“Global demands for infantry-centric formations, coupled with the Army’s ongoing transformation to modularity, require a change in design for the fourth Stryker Brigade Combat Team, from a cavalry construct to a standard infantry-centric SBCT formation,” said Col. Ben Allen, Director of Integration, Department of the Army Programs.
The design change will not change the home stationing for the unit at Fort Polk.
For more information:
Please contact Maj. Gary Tallman at 703-697-4314, gary.tallman@hqda.army.mil
Need to know what?
I've been meaning to ask: What is a "nod(s)"?
I may be naive, but all I think about is logistics. Just build the damn things, train someone to use them effectively, and get them over there. I don't care what they prefer to call themselves. They will adapt, and get most of their training OJT...just like always.
U.S. special forces troops ride horseback as they work with members of the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan during Operation Enduring Freedom on Nov. 12, 2001
Spoken like a true bean counter. What about women and beer?
Is a man a man without women and beer?
The cavalry's "glory days" lasted less than 100 years, tops (1830s/Westward Expansion - 1920/WWI). After that it was, "the horse they never rode, the line they never crossed". Giving armored, airmobile and attack helicopter formations "honorific" unit designations, and calling them "CAV" doesn't make them cavalry. The very word "cavalry" comes from the Latin for "horse". Absent horses, there is no "cavalry", except in the minds of some equestrian Luddites.
Thanks for the link in comment# 26, quite an interesting read.
I believe we tried those and found them wanting.
Against heavy armor formations or low intensity conflicts?
From a command and control standpoint I could see how the powers that be wouldn't want hundreds of these things roaming the battlefield.
But think of the possibilities. Speed, mobility, stealth, surprise ... in a platform that can be tailored for the mission. Cheap too!
I'd take one of these over a Hummer or a 151 anyday.
Thanks for the "zoom zoom" link. Interesting how they pulled some the FAVs out of mothballs after Sept.11 and refurbed them.
Thanks - I knew that based on the movement of the same RCC I see in Dallas (but again - my small church - strictly bible based - is 60% ex-Catholic)
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