U.S. Small Unit Action in Iraq, 2004-2007 The lightning campaign that toppled the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq in the spring of 2003 seemed to herald the arrival of a new way of war, as Germany’s blitzkrieg had done at the beginning of World War II. But the initial victory soon devolved into a persistent counterinsurgency conflict reminiscent of the long...

WARRIOR BASE, South Korea – Eighth Army Command Sgt. Maj. Rodney D. Harris visited the Expert Infantry Bage test site here July 26. The EIB test was run by the 1st Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division with Command Sgt. Maj. Raul V. Huerta and his noncommissioned officers taking the lead for the training, test certification and...

The Korean War, 1950-1953 (an extract from American Military History, Volume 2-2005) The North Korean invasion of South Korea on June 25, 1950, in a narrow sense was only an escalation of a continuing civil war among Koreans that began with Japan’s defeat in 1945. In a larger sense, the invasion marked the eruption of the Cold War between the United States...

  Infantry Field Manuals   FM 3-21.8 The Infantry Rifle Platoon and Squad       “Follow Me” is a United States Army memorial located at Fort Benning, Georgia. It was created in 1959 by two soldiers, Private First Class Manfred Bass, sculptor and designer, and Private First Class Karl H. Van Krog, his assistant. The model for...

FORT JACKSON, S.C. — Two Soldiers received special honors Friday during a ceremony at the Hilton Field Softball Complex recognizing those Soldiers who recently completed a week of tasks to earn the Expert Infantryman Badge. Sgt. 1st Class Scott Wilkie, a drill sergeant with Company E, 3rd Battalion, 34th Infantry Regiment, was the only Soldier who received...