November 2012 {UNCLASSIFIED}InfantryCDT COUTURE

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Agenda✤ Tasks To gain a greater knowledge on the US Army

Infantry branch.

✤ Conditions A classroom of highly motivated MSIIs.

✤ Standards All MSIIs will be knowledgable on the US Army Infantry branch.

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References ✤ Army Officer’s Guide 51st Edition

✤ FM 7-8

✤ FM 1-02+

✤ +FM 101-5-1

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Outline✤ Basic Branch Knowledge

✤ Creation

✤ Types of Infantry

✤ Officers and Enlisted

✤ Questions

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MissionThe mission of the infantry is to close with the enemy by means of fire and maneuver to defeat or capture him, or to repel his assault by fire, close combat, and counterattack.

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Definition ■Attack over approaches that are not feasible for heavy forces.

■Make initial penetrations in difficult terrain for exploitations by armor and mechanized infantry.

■Retain existing obstacles and difficult terrain as pivots for operational and tactical maneuver.

■Seize or secure forested and built-up areas.

■Control restrictive routes for use by other forces.

■Operate primarily at night or during other periods of natural or induced limited visibility.

■Follow and support exploiting heavy forces when augmented with transportation.

■Conduct rear area operations, capitalizing on air mobility.

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Basic Information]Information

✤ Active 14 June 1775

✤ Nickname Queen of Battle

✤ Motto Follow Me

✤ Branch Color Light Blue

Officer

Officer

Enlisted

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Creation✤ Made to meet the demands

of the Revolutionary War

✤ Originally had men from British Army

✤ French and Prussian influence

South Vietnam in December 1967

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Light Infantry✤ Lack of heavy weapons and armor.

✤ Reduced vehicle usage.

✤ Surprise, stealth, violence of action

✤ Increased in 1980s to make an easily deployable force that deploys for a shorter amount of time.

✤ Reduced in 90s, successful in Afghanistan.

✤ 10th Mt Division

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Air Assault Infantry

✤ Rappel and air transportation

✤ Seize and hold key terrain using helicopter assets

✤ Can sometimes be classified as light infantry.

✤ 101st Airborne Division (only division sized helicopter force)

✤ Other units perform air assault capabilities

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Airborne Infantry

✤ Usually light infantry classification

✤ Moved by aircraft to be dropped into battle - vertical envelopment

✤ Lack supplies for long term

✤ Sensitive to weather conditions

✤ Used a lot in WWII.

✤ “Paratrooper” 82nd Airborne Division

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Mechanized Infantry

✤ Armored personal carriers (APCs) or infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs)

✤ Vehicles are hard shelled and protected (As opposed to a jeep)

✤ Use weapons attached such as anti-tank guided missiles

✤ Greatest firepower but requires more combat supplies

✤ Most infantry units have at mechanized capabilities

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Ranger Infantry

✤ Graduate from US Army Ranger School and Airborne School

✤ Trained for parachute, special operations helicopter, small boat, or dismounted

✤ Ranger Recon also trained in scuba and free-fall parachuting

✤ Increasing use as special ops

✤ 75th Ranger Regiment (light infantry)

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Infantry Officer✤ Leadership and Adaptability

✤ Highly competitive ROTC OML

✤ Coordinate employment of new infantrymen

✤ No women

✤ Land combat

✤ Only Active Duty or Guard

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Infantry Enlisted

✤ 14 weeks of training before becoming an infantryman or indirect fire infantryman

✤ Training is mostly FTX

✤ Discipline and high moral

✤ Require ASVAB of 87+ for Combat

✤ ASVAB of 31+ for entry level

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