Seating Chart

1. Seating Chart • HHQs (CJTF & Div) • X • y • MNB-V HQs • Bde Cdr • BdeCoS • S3 • S2 • S1 • S4 • S9 • S6 • FSO • ALO • Z • Z • BnCmdTms? • X • X

2. Attendees • HHQs (CJTF & Div) • X • y • MNB-V HQs • Bde Cdr • BdeCoS • S3 • S2 • S1 • S4 • S9 • S6 • FSO • ALO • Z • Z • BnCmdTms? • X • X

3. Command Post Exercise After Action Review 22 JUN 2012

4. AAR Purpose • Open and professional discussion- what happened? What worked, what did not? • System and technique focus- what to sustain and what to improve • Not a critique- no one has all the answers • Not an evaluation- does not grade success or failure

5. House Rules • Participate - It’s your AAR - Get involved! • Open and professional discussion • Always ask yourself, “How can I do this better?” • Learn something and get better every day • Turn-off cell phones Be a Learning Organization!!

6. Division Mission

7. Brigade Mission

8. Task Organization CJTF US (-) (+) CS (VIR) 56 SBCT MNB/ V LVA LVA LTU VIR US L L 34th ARTY 8th IN 2nd IN 1st MECH 3/2 CR CSS L L L L L L DIV & Coordinating Services (US) TACON from RDC-W (VIR) BSB CG-61 RQ-7 2xShadow (-) DEGENSE LEAGUE L 6xM270 24xUH60 6xAH-64 2xA10 2xF16

9. Enemy Mission & Intent UPDATE

10. Enemy Scheme of Maneuver UPDATE

11. RSCC SAP Enemy Task Organization 3 33 1 2 3 4 5 6 6 A A A A A B A A C C C B B B C B C D E E B D D D B E D MI E C C F F F 7 G G 33d DIV Assets Available C F A C 11 B 33AF A 8 2 B/33 1 A/33 E D E W 2xSu-27 2xSS-21 6xMi-24

12. Key Events Focus Command Post Operations Section divider- delete post draft

13. EFST • CCIR • IO • COA • DSM • R & S • BOS EMPLOYMENT • PRIORITIES OF PLANS • PRIORITIES OF EFFORT • PRIORITIES OF WORK • TIME MANAGEMENT COMMAND POST FUNCTIONS EMAIL FM PHONE RECEIVE INFORMATION ANALYZE INFORMATION • SOURCES • 1st MECH BN • 2nd IN BN • 8th MECH BN • 3/2 CR • 34th FA BN • EN BN • EST Fires BN • SOURCES • DIV HQ • UAS • CAS/CCA • Defense League SUBMIT RECOMMENDATIONS • MDMP • IPB • TOC CURRENT • OPS • BATTLE TRACKING • TASK ORGANIZATION • LOGISTICS STATUS Change DISTRIBUTE INFORMATION INTEGRATE RESOURCES • REPORTS • BRIEFS • OPORDS • FM • FRAGOS • Defense League • ENGRS • UAS • CAS/CCA SYNCHRONIZE RESOURCES • DECISIVE OPS • SHAPING OPS • SUSTAINING OPS

14. Command Post Functions Receive Information Analyze Information Submit Recommendations Distribute Information Integrate Resources Are we helping the Commander “See Ourselves” Synchronize Resources FM 3-90.3

15. DSM • CCIR • COA • ISR • EFST • AWF employment • Priorities of plans • Priorities of effort • Priorities of work Command Post Functions RECEIVE INFORMATION ANALYZE INFORMATION • Receive messages, reports, and orders from subordinate units and higher HQ • Monitor tactical situation • Maintain a journal of all SIGACT and reports • Maintain and update unit locations and activities • Monitor enemy situation’ • Maintain a status of critical classes of supply SUBMIT RECOMMENDATIONS • Consolidate reports • Anticipate events and activities, • and take appropriate action • Conduct predictive analysis • based on the tactical situation • ID information that relates to the CCIR • Conduct MDMP • Identify the need to execute CONPLANS • based on current situation DISTRIBUTE INFORMATION INTEGRATE RESOURCES • Submit reports to higher HQ • Serve as communications relay • between units • Publish orders and instructions • Process and distribute information • to appropriate units or staff sections • Coordinate the integration of • combat multipliers SYNCHRONIZE RESOURCES • Coordinate the synchronization of • combat multipliers

16. Commander’s Role Lead • Principles of war • Operational themes • Experiences PMESII-PT METT-TC • Visualize • Nature and Design of the Operation • Offense • Defense • Stability • Civil Support • Understand • Framing / Reframing the problem • End state • Conditions • Objectives • Describe • Time, Space, Resources, Purpose, and Action • Decisive Operations • Shaping Operations • Sustaining Operations • Direct • Warfighting Functions • Intelligence • Fires • Sustainment • Command and control • Movement and maneuver • Protection Running estimates Preparation • Plans and orders • Branches and sequels • Preparation • Execution • Initial commander’s intent • Planning guidance • Commander’s critical information • requirements • Essential elements of friendly • information Elements of operational design Assess METT-TCmission, enemy, terrain and weather, troops and support available, time available, civil considerations PMESII-PT political, military, economic, social, information, infrastructure, physical environment, time FM 3-0

17. Situational Awareness SEE OURSELVES SEE ENEMY SEE TERRAIN PIR NAIs IPB Pattern Analysis EVENTEMP SITEMP Patrol Debriefs Bi-lat Debriefs INTSUMs TSM PMESII-PT SWEAT-MSO NGOs UNHCR HTT MCOO ASCOPE Imagery and Maps Leaders’ Recon FFIR Effective CPs Tracking Charts Timelines Rehearsals Communications Battle Updates FRAGOs DSM LOGSTATs 026 Report Staff Estimates Shift Change Tied to Time!

18. COMMAND POST FUNCTIONS HIGHER HQ KEYS TO SUCCESS RECEIVE INFORMATION TOC SETUP AND EQUIPMENT ADJACENT AND SUPPORTED UNITS ANALYZE INFORMATION TASK FORCE STAFF OFFICERS BATTLE CPT AND NCO DISTRIBUTE INFORMATION BATTLE CAPTAIN DIVISION OF DUTIES MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE CDR TOC BATTLE DRILLS INTEGRATE SYNCHRONIZE RESOURCES TOC SOP SUBORDINATE UNITS CCIR Current Operations Who needs to know and why?

19. MCP Layout Change

20. What is the Function of our TOC • A command post is a unit headquarters where the commander and staff perform their activities. It is often divided into echelons. • CPs are the principal facilities commanders use to control operations. • Effective CPs enable commanders to make decisions faster than the enemy. FM6-0

21. Are we using all the tools we have? Change

22. CSE S4 OPS NCO BIC BTL CPT Change S1 S2 BTL NCO

23. ALOC Change

24. The Staff Staffs exist to help the commander make and implement decisions. Staff organizations and procedures are structured to meet the Commander’s Critical Information Requirements (CCIR). The CDR and his staff focus on recognizing and anticipating battlefield activities in order to decide and act faster than the enemy / situation. All staff organizations and procedures exist to make the organization, analysis, and presentation of vast amounts of information manageable for the commander.

25. Six TOC FunctionsHow are we doing? EFFECTIVE IMPROVING NEED WORK SIX TOC FUNCTIONS • 1. RECEIVE INFORMATION • 2. ANALYZE INFORMATION • 3. SUBMIT RECOMMENDATIONS • 4. DISTRIBUTE INFORMATION • 5. INTEGRATE RESOURCES • 6. SYNCHRONIZE RESOURCES

26. TOC Information Management MINIEX- (Photo) Day 1- (Photo)

27. TOC Battle Tracking D-22. Once the BSTB has deployed into an area and is conducting missions, the BSTB TOC maintains a current status, including of all of its subordinate and attached units. This includes personnel, location, and logistics. The ability to track the availability of resources also enhances its ability to provide the necessary security for the BCT main CP, the BSTB TOC, and to provide assets to the BCT for successful accomplishment of operations elsewhere in the BCT AO. Change FM 3-90.61

28. Key Events Focus Situational Awareness & the Common Operating Picture Section divider- delete post draft

29. Common Operating Picture BN operational graphics 4km difference from BDE graphics PL Blue restrictive control measure 9 FKIA from SIMM mortar attack How do we ensure all graphic control measures are synched with BDE? What controls are in place to ensure a COP at all levels?

30. COP “A Way” ROUTE Status ISR Intel Board, Rolling BUB, Daily Timeline FBCB2 CPOF SIGACTs, TOC LOG

31. This concludes your After Action Review Multi National Brigade- Vironia Imbed training photo or unit shields CPX AAR 22 JUN 2012 Facilitator: LTC Bali Exercise SABER STRIKE 12

32. Below The Line

33. War Gaming vs. Combined Arms Rehearsal Combined Arms Rehearsal War Gaming • The subordinate units plans are synchronized with the other units in the organization • The plans of all subordinate commander’s will properly achieve the intent of the higher commander. • Key CS/CSS plans must be included: casualty evacuation routes, AXPs, refuel points, Class IV/V resupply points, logistics release points, displacement times/locations/triggers for the BSA, EPW collection points. • -Attempts to visualize the flow of the operation given: • FF strengths and dispositions • ENY capabilities and possible COAs • impact and requirements of civilians in the AO • -Simplest form of war gaming is the manual method, often utilizing a tabletop approach with blowups of matrices and templates.

34. Three Day Targeting Cycle CONOP Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Targeting Decision Brief Operations & Intelligence Operations & Intelligence

35. Information Management (Tactical) CDR When and how do I interface with my commander? What needs to go to higher? What decisions must I make? What needs to go back down? What info do I need to make decisions? XO/S3Staff What reports do I need? Where do I give guidance? What working groups do I need? What’s our battle rhythm? S6 What IM / KM tools do we have/need? What Info Assurance (IA) policies must we follow?

36. RUNNING ESTIMATE DECIDING, DECIDING, DECIDING, CONCEPT OF CONCEPT OF CONCEPT OF OPERATIONS OPERATIONS OPERATIONS SEE SEE SEE SEE SEE SEE ENEMY ENEMY TERRAIN TERRAIN ENEMY TERRAIN TIME SPACE TIME TIME SPACE SPACE BATTLE BATTLE BATTLE COMMAND COMMAND COMMAND PURPOSE LEADING, MOTIVATING LEADING, MOTIVATING LEADING, MOTIVATING PURPOSE PURPOSE SEE SEE SEE MORAL & PHYSICAL MORAL & PHYSICAL MORALE & PHYSICAL YOURSELF YOURSELF YOURSELF PRESENCE PRESENCE PRESENCE EMBEDDED EMBEDDED - - INTENT, INTENT, EMBEDDED- INTENT, VISUALIZATION VISUALIZATION VISUALIZATION CURRENT & END STATE CURRENT & END STATE CURRENT & END STATE

37. 6 Basic Functions of a CP 1. Receive information 2. Distribute information 3. Analyze information 4. Submit recommendations to the commander 5. Integrate resources 6. Synchronize resources CP Functions in a Coin Environment – What’s Different? HIC Operations COIN Operations 1. Information collection/management focused by targeting requirements 2. Information distribution may involve NGO’s, international forces, and other members outside TF & CO/TM 3. Analysis is a product of collective TF effort involving more than the S-2 4. Submit recommendations to the commander 5. Integration involves NGO’s, contractors, interpreters, etc. 6. Synchronize resources 1. Information collection focused primarily on enemy operations 2. Information distribution revolves primarily to HHQ and subordinate units 3. Analysis techniques covered by BOS elements 4. Submit recommendations to the commander 5. Integration involves primarily U.S. (organic to DIV) forces 6. Synchronize resources BOTTOM LINE: Same functions, different focus!

38. TOC Operations To ensure that information is provided to the commander in an efficient and timely manner, periodic update briefs or shift change briefs are conducted. Conducting command shift change or update briefings accomplishes more than just providing the commander a snapshot of current battalion status. Briefings provide a point in time and place for all staff sections to assemble and ensure that everyone is informed with the same situational understanding. FM 3-90.61

39. Common Operating Picture Whatever the age or technology, the key to effective C2 is people using information to decide and to act wisely. Whatever the age or technology, the ultimate criterion of C2 success is always the same: acting faster and more effectively than the enemy to accomplish the mission at the least cost to the friendly force before the enemy can effectively act. FM 6-0

40. Cognitive Hierarchy CDR Understanding Judgment Knowledge Knowledge Management Focus Create Organize Apply Transfer Analysis Information Information Management Focus Collect Process Store Display Disseminate Protect Processing Data FM6-0

42. ALOC

45. 8 Staff Competencies • ID / Anticipate Requirements • Monitor Operations • Manage Information • Make Recommendations • Direct Actions • Conduct Coordination • Synchronize Operations • Maintain Continuity A Highly Effective Unit Needs A Highly Effective Staff...

46. Control and the Staff 1-15. Success in command is impossible without control. Within command and control, control is the regulation of forces and battlefield operating systems to accomplish the mission in accordance with the commander’s intent. It includes collecting, processing, displaying, storing, and disseminating relevant information for creating the common operational picture, and using information, primarily by the staff, during the operations process. Control allows commanders to disseminate their commander’s intent, execute decisions, and adjust their operations to reflect changing reality and enemy actions. It allows commanders to modify their commander’s visualization to account for changing circumstances. Control also allows commanders to identify times and points requiring new decisions during preparation and execution. FM 6-0, Mission Command: Command and Control of Army Forces, Aug 2003

47. “A WAY” FM 3-90.61

48. EN TOC

49. Duties / Responsibilities Executive Officer • Supervise and coordinate the staff • “CHIEF OF STAFF” • Develops/Supervises the Main CP’s Battle Rhythm • Overall in charge of the MDMP Process • Monitor BN combat readiness and direct • actions to improve the status • Integrate, synchronize and anticipate • operations from the Main CP

50. Duties / Responsibilities S3 • Prepares, coordinates, and publishes OPORDs FRAGOs, and WARNOs (ALL STAFF CONTRUBUTE!!) • Supervise and coordinate current ops and plans • Participates in targeting meetings • Runs the BN TAC CP as required by missions • Prepares the Operational Estimate and • Maintains the Running Operational Estimate • (See FM 5-0 App. E) • Integrates fire support into operations