WARRIOR FORGE

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WARRIOR FORGE
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WARRIOR FORGE
CADET COMMAND MISSION To Commission the Future
Officer Leadership of the U.S. Army and Motivate
Young People to be Better Citizens.
WARRIOR FORGE MISSION
Cadet Command conducts WARRIOR FORGE 2007 at Fort
Lewis from xx June to xx August 2007 to train
cadets, develop leadership and evaluate officer
potential.
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WF07 Essential Tasks

• Progressive Leader Development at Small Unit
  Level
• Field Leader Reaction Course, SQD STX, PTRL STX
• Individual Fitness and Confidence
• APFT, Rappelling, Obstacle Course, Hand Grenades,
  Slide For Life, Log Walk-Rope Drop
• Technical Skills
• Basic Rifle Marksmanship, Land Navigation,
  Automatic Weapons Deployment
• Tactical Skills
• FM 7-8 Battle Drills, Cross Country Movement in
  Section-Size Patrols, Ability to Develop the
  Situation

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WF07 Regimental MTS
Confidence Day 1 Rappel, LRC, Obstacles
First Aid ITT Cultural Awareness
Platoon Security Opns Patrolling
Victory March
Travel Doc Review Static Load Tng
Regtl Run Graduation
Land Nav
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WF07 LeadershipAssessment and Development

• Cadet Leadership must conduct mission analysis,
  planning, movement, and execution of each days
  training schedulefor evaluation of their
  performance and potential.
• Critical counseling feedback from TACs or
  evaluators with cadets on their leadership
  performance consumes two hours of each day.
• Each training committee relates their tasks to a
  real world warrior vignette in which a Soldier
  has used those committee tasks to accomplish the
  mission.

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Initial Cadet Adaptive Challenges

• Cadets must adapt to a very stressful environment
  by successfully forming and bonding with a
  completely new set of peers within the first four
  days of WF.

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Testing the Individual

• Cadets immediately flow through seven days of
  individual skills training and certification
  (Land Nav, APFT, BRM, CWST) under continuous
  leadership development and assessment.
• Execute dismounted day and night Land Navigation
  forced to use all aspects of map reading, terrain
  association, movement and route selection,
  navigation methods, and time management to
  succeed.
• Prove comfort in water environment by passing
  CWST, prove comfort level with the Armys basic
  weapon (M16A2).
• Gain familiarization with Infantry Squad weapons
  M249, M203, AT-4, and M18 Claymore Mine

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Train the Cadet,Test the Character

• Six days of training overcoming physical
  challenges, personal fears, and continuing foot
  marches to prepare for the 10-day collective
  skills training.
• Prove strength, agility, individual and team
  adaptability, and Warrior Ethos through the High
  Confidence Course, Obstacle Course, Rappelling,
  and Leader Reaction Courses.
• Build initial movement techniques and planning
  skills conducting footmarches to and from
  confidence course training.

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Build the Team and Leader Skills

• 1st Aid Cadets are trained and tested on basic
  1st Aid skills of evaluating, treating, and
  evacuating a casualty. Cadets then conduct a
  Squad-level First Aid course where they have to
  evaluate / treat / evacuate a casualty through a
  series of obstacles and then call in Medevac
  using the standard 9-line request.
• ITT Tasks trained Basic Assembly Area
  operations, actions on objective, squad troop
  leading procedures, conduct individual movement
  techniques, move over/through/around obstacles,
  operate as a member of a Fire Team, operate as a
  Fire Team Leader, EPW procedures, knock out
  bunker, and the MOUT task of enter and clear a
  room.
• ITT Tactical Assault Course is a 400 meter
  cross-country Fire Team maneuver course
  incorporating all of the above tasks, route
  selection, and decision-making.
• Fire Support incorporates leader skills of
  planning direct and indirect fires and targets.
  Cadets plan / call for / adjust indirect fire.

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Adapt to Challenges

• Cadets train to standard and throw a live hand
  grenade. The IED / UXO station provides initial
  exposure to IED / UXO ordnance, later reinforced
  at STX training. The new Field Hand Grenade
  Assault Course will provide a realistic,
  physically exhausting buddy team maneuver
  exercise in which cadets must use tactical skills
  and decision-making to approach and effectively
  engage typical COE targets with grenades in
  natural terrain (vice the current fixed course).
• FLRC evaluates every cadets ability to adapt to
  unforeseen challenges while on a mission, and
  problem solve/plan/overcome obstacles under
  extremely compressed timeframes.

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Develop and Evaluate the Potential

• 10-day Field Training Exercise in which cadets
  build on the Tactical Assembly Area principles
  they learned at ITT to include positioning key
  weapons, establishing subordinate element
  sectors, planning indirect fires, and executing
  priorities of work.
• Regiments deploy to the Operational Area and each
  squad conducts up to 24 missions over four days
  at Squad STX.
• Cadets occupy Platoon-size TAA sectors to conduct
  Platoon-level tactical preparation for
  section-level patrolling missions. The TAA must
  be secured by local patrols and by incorporating
  all previous learned security operations tasks.
• Cadet patrols conduct two 6-8 hour missions per
  day, secure and occupy patrol bases overnight,
  conduct limited security operations and patrols
  at night, and conduct a movement for extraction
  from the Operational Area, and a Victory March of
  8km into the Regimental area.

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Learn Leadership Agility

• Cadets enter the SQD STX environment, deploying
  into nightly platoon-size TAAs. The first day
  and night of training is Security Operations and
  Occupy an Assembly Area, with related training
  continuing each night.
• The first two days of SQD STX are MTP-type (FM
  7-8) doctrinal missions, and the last two days
  incorporate dynamic COE variables. Examples are
• Secure a CP
• React to sniper
• Conduct LOGPAC
• React to surrendering enemy soldier
• Recover a vehicle (HMMWV)
• React to refugees
• Deal with media
• Encounter IED
• Evacuate KIA/WIA

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Demonstrate Leadership in the COE

• All patrols are Combat or Reconnaissance Patrols
  or will integrate FM 3-21.8 tasks if published in
  time, and all have a dynamic COE event and/or
  change of mission incorporated. Examples
  include
• IED with Medevac
• Seize weapons cache,
• React to/move to/secure vehicle and/or casualties
  left in an ambush site by a passing convoy
• Rescue/evacuate downed helicopter crew
• Move to/secure a UN food distribution site that
  has a developing crowd control problem
• Embed a media reporter/cameraman in the patrol
  (for the duration of the patrol)
• Recon/secure a suspected mortar position that
  just fired on a base camp perimeter.

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Combatives / Water Confidence

• Combatives
• Tasks Base Position, Chokeholds, Arm bars
• Does not include throws and strikes
• Requires sawdust pit, mouth guard, certified
  instructors
• Water Confidence
• Execute Slide for Life and Log-Walk-Rope-Drop
• Conduct Zodiac Boat training

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WF Completion Criteria

• Pass APFT (Army Standard 60 pts
• each event)
• Pass Land Nav (70 in Written, Day, Night)
• Qualify M16A2 (Army Standard 23/40)
• Attend 90 Tng (28 of 32 days)
• Minimum of SAT in all Army Values and
  Leadership Dimensions
• CWST is a Commissioning Requirement
• - It is tested at WF, but not a Completion
  Requirement
• APFT LN cannot be waived to graduate

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Recondo Criteria

• Successfully Complete WARRIOR FORGE
• With No Non-Medical Waivers in Any Event
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• 270 or Above on APFT With No Retest (90 Per
  Event)
• GO on all Confidence Training Events and
  Water Safety Tasks
• to include Slide For Life and Log Walk-Rope
  Drop
• 80 or Higher in Each Phase of Land Navigation
• S or Higher Rating in SQD STX Evaluations
• Successfully Complete ITT Assault Courses
• Successfully Complete Automatic Weapon Assault
  Course
• 80 Points or Higher on Hand Grenade Assault
  Course
• Qualify w/23 or higher at BRM w/o a refire
• Pass WARRIOR FORGE w/o Non-Medical Waiver