Truly Joint Construction Engineers: The Time Is Now

Abstract

The U.S. military has four separate construction engineer organizations within the four services. Each service mans, equips, and trains their respective engineers differently. Although some of the training is consolidated at major installations for initial and advanced training, Soldiers, Airmen, Sailors, and Marines all prepare for and execute different mission sets using different equipment. Officers and enlisted, active duty and reserve component personnel from all services should train the same way and use the same equipment, instead of various commercial types. Additionally, the active component (AC) to reserve component (RC) force structure ratio of 24 percent AC to 76 percent RC is satisfactory in peacetime, but unacceptable during current operations. This SRP identifies opportunities to generate combat power and efficiencies in a combined construction engineer force structure using service members from all services and all components, using the same training facilities and equipment.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 27, 2007
Accession Number
ADA468841

Entities

People

  • Mark G. Moffatt

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Afghanistan Conflict
  • Air Force
  • Construction
  • Construction Equipment
  • Doctrine
  • Employment
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Military Personnel
  • Military Science
  • Organizational Structure
  • Personnel Management
  • Procurement
  • Standards
  • Students
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

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