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TRADOC Pam 525-3-7-01was a professional now, right? That’s what the instructors told him at BNCOC, and he wantedto believe it.April 2020“Platoon, Attention!” bellowed 2 nd Lieutenant Wilson. “Stand at ease!!”When Wilson announced that Sergeant Billy Deans had won the Soldier of the Monthcompetition, the platoon erupted in shouts and applause. Deans was a vehicle commander on theFSV-G in First Squad. Making vehicle commander in the 4 th Infantry Division was no smallaccomplishment. Running the FSV-G through Gunnery Table 8 on Carson’s east range hadnearly cost Wilson his platoon leader status. In the three plus months he’d been at Carson, he’dlearned more about the real Army than in four years of ROTC.They were loaded for a rotation at the NTC at Fort Irwin. Every fighting vehicle commander,including all the officers, had to pass the grueling requirements of Table 8 or they weren’t goingto Irwin, at least not as vehicle commanders. Wilson hadn’t given much thought to LieutenantColonel Rick Stacy’s professional development class until he got to his own qualifying run on theFSV-G and nearly muffed it on the first target set. Now he appreciated far more clearly thatbeing a “Domer” and wearing the Tab, ‘din’t ‘mount ta beans,’ as Sergeant Deans often said tohis crew. It took practice, teamwork, and enormous attention to detail to handle all the systemson the FSV-G, stay cloaked from view, make the timed exercise, and score better than 700 out of1000 points. “Professional, indeed,” Wilson remembered Stacy saying at a pep talk to thebattalion officers before the range week. “We’re all true professionals, officers, and NCOs.Ours is a special calling, and not many of your accountant or doctor friends back home couldmeasure up on Table 8.”“Bravo 33 this is Bravo 3, data, over,” Wilson remembered calling Deans before he almostblew the platoon kills battalion segment. Platoon kills battalion—an exercise that stretched eventhe technologically superior family of FSVs—pitted a four vehicle platoon against a 40 vehicleadversary battalion. This was a major expansion of the qualification table instituted in 2017combining the old tables 8, 10, and 12 into one. The new Table 8 had crew qualification as onesegment and now included the team and platoon segments of the old ten and twelve.“Bravo 3, Bravo 33, data received, moving to target reference point (TRP) 6.”Wilson looked at his display seeing Deans’ FSV-G moving just the opposite of what he’dordered. He touched the point he’d selected for Deans to overwatch his next bound only torealize his mistake. It was TRP 8, not six! Between Deans and six, there was a deep ravine,probably mined, likely under opposing force (OPFOR) observation. If he didn’t stop Deans hefaced a failing score on this segment, and this wasn’t even the hardest of the Table 8 tests.“Bravo 33, correction TRP 8, I say again eight.” Wilson said watching the message scrollautomatically and pushing the send button. He waited for an acknowledgement, but none came.If he were forced to broadcast live instead of using data bursts it would cost him twenty points.24
TRADOC Pam 525-3-7-01“Bravo 33, Bravo 3, acknowledge my last.”Nothing. “Crap!” Wilson shouted, seeing the word appear on the screen with a questionmark on the send button.The two vehicles were close to three hundred meters apart. How to get Deans’ attentionwithout a voice message? Wilson swore under his breath thinking how stupid it was to mistakean eight for a six. He wiped the screen clean, which he should have done earlier Just then, itdawned on him that he could fly his Wasp unmanned aerial system to Deans and send thecorrection on the laser. Could he do it fast enough? He passed his gloved hand over the righticons spinning up a Wasp and keying in the instruction to home to Bravo 33 and beam the newTRP. “Come on baby,” he whispered, figuring about 45 seconds flight time.The Wasp lifted off the FSV-G rear deck and shot over the ground at less than five metersover the terrain. Wilson held his breath counting the seconds knowing that Deans was halfwayto six and disaster. “Come on, dammit! Get there!” The words dutifully appeared awaiting histouch to be sent. He touched erase and told his driver to roll, slaving the driver’s picture to hisdesignated position. He poised his thumb over the push to talk button ready to break radiosilence. Losing twenty points on the range sucked, but letting one of his crews get suckerpunched for his mistake just didn’t cut it.“Br…,” he started to say without fully depressing the button when the screen read “TRP 8,Roger!”Qualification on Gunnery Table 8 is an Army regulatory requirement for all Abrams tank andBradley fighting vehicle crews. It is a truly demanding rite of passage for today’s armor andinfantry Soldiers. In this fictional account, the Army has upped the ante making what was tougheven tougher. This story points out the relationship between officers and NCOs and the rigorousand demanding training the future Modular Force will continue to require. It demonstrates aswell that the old saws, “It ain’t rocket science,” and “This isn’t brain surgery,” for the futureSoldiers no longer apply. It is science and it does require the precision of surgery. Theprofession of arms is now and will increasingly be a true calling. Lifelong study does not occurin the months or years from entry into service to the requirement for new officers and NCOs toapply the kinds of skills necessary to the serious business of war. The Army must start theirpreparation as early as possible and get it right or the consequences to the U.S. are too painful toconsider.25
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<strong>TRADOC</strong> <strong>Pam</strong> <strong>525</strong>-3-7-<strong>01</strong>“Bravo 33, Bravo 3, acknowledge my last.”Nothing. “Crap!” Wilson shouted, seeing the word appear on the screen with a questionmark on the send button.The two vehicles were close to three hundred meters apart. How to get Deans’ attentionwithout a voice message? Wilson swore under his breath thinking how stupid it was to mistakean eight for a six. He wiped the screen clean, which he should have done earlier Just then, itdawned on him that he could fly his Wasp unmanned aerial system to Deans and send thecorrection on the laser. Could he do it fast enough? He passed his gloved hand over the righticons spinning up a Wasp and keying in the instruction to home to Bravo 33 and beam the newTRP. “Come on baby,” he whispered, figuring about 45 seconds flight time.The Wasp lifted off the FSV-G rear deck and shot over the ground at less than five metersover the terrain. Wilson held his breath counting the seconds knowing that Deans was halfwayto six and disaster. “Come on, dammit! Get there!” The words dutifully appeared awaiting histouch to be sent. He touched erase and told his driver to roll, slaving the driver’s picture to hisdesignated position. He poised his thumb over the push to talk button ready to break radiosilence. Losing twenty points on the range sucked, but letting one of his crews get suckerpunched for his mistake just didn’t cut it.“Br…,” he started to say without fully depressing the button when the screen read “TRP 8,Roger!”Qualification on Gunnery Table 8 is an <strong>Army</strong> regulatory requirement for all Abrams tank andBradley fighting vehicle crews. It is a truly demanding rite of passage for today’s armor andinfantry Soldiers. In this fictional account, the <strong>Army</strong> has upped the ante making what was tougheven tougher. This story points out the relationship between officers and NCOs and the rigorousand demanding training the future Modular Force will continue to require. It demonstrates aswell that the old saws, “It ain’t rocket science,” and “This isn’t brain surgery,” for the futureSoldiers no longer apply. It is science and it does require the precision of surgery. Theprofession of arms is now and will increasingly be a true calling. Lifelong study does not occurin the months or years from entry into service to the requirement for new officers and NCOs toapply the kinds of skills necessary to the serious business of war. The <strong>Army</strong> must start theirpreparation as early as possible and get it right or the consequences to the U.S. are too painful toconsider.25