Explosive Hazards Team: Concept, Employment, and the Way Ahead

Abstract

The United States Army is better prepared for contingency operations today than ever before. What was a rigid Cold War-era formation only eight years ago is now a modular force capable of tailoring combat packages to the specific needs of an operation. The Engineer Branch has historically provided one of the most diverse skill sets to combatant commanders. Through its transformation to a modular force, this skill set has grown in scope and functionality. The Engineer Branch remains an example of doctrinal adaptation and change. Engineers can be proud of the branch s efforts to modify the force specifically at the company level where combat engineers specialize in a number of new formations such as mobility augmentation, clearance, and sapper companies. However, the establishment and employment of formations such as the facility engineer team, explosive hazards coordination cell (EHCC), and explosive hazards team (EHT) all captured in revised engineer doctrine lag behind doctrine and original intent.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2009
Accession Number
ADA560264

Entities

People

  • Glen A. Macdonald

Organizations

  • United States Army Engineer School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Counter IED
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Battlefields
  • Clearances
  • Cold War
  • Combat Operations
  • Combatant Commanders
  • Deployment
  • Doctrine
  • Employment
  • Engineers
  • Explosives
  • Improvised Explosive Devices
  • Munitions
  • Personnel Management
  • Security Personnel
  • Training
  • United States
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Facility/Structural Engineering.
  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.
  • Munitions and Ordnance Engineering