A Proposed Aviation Training Strategy to Ensure Relevancy in the Objective Force
Abstract
This essay discusses the role of Army Aviation in the Interim Force and proposes a strategy and recommendations for aviation forces to remain relevant in the Objective Force. The RAH-66 Comanche helicopter is the Army's highest aviation priority and is the centerpiece of aviation transformation. The Army Airborne Command and Control System (A2C2S) and the Army Airborne Manned/Unmanned System Technology (AMUST) are two enabling aviation centric emerging technologies that will exponentially improve the warfighting capabilities of the Objective Force. To truly enhance its relevancy, Aviation must take the time to develop leaders that are competent in an environment of ever-increasing uncertainty, complexity, volatility, and ambiguity. The successful commander must be better than his enemy at converting available combat potential into superior combat power at the critical time and place. The tactics, techniques and procedures that are developed today for the train up and fielding of the Interim Brigade Combat Teams will lay the foundation for aviation employment doctrine of the future. Several of the lessons learned from the 1962 Howze Board will be reviewed to remind us that often history repeats itself and to recommend how these lessons can be used to improve aviation integration in the transformation process.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Apr 09, 2002
- Accession Number
- ADA404524
Entities
People
- Robert L. Johnson Jr.
Organizations
- United States Army War College