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In 1888 a collection of cavalry officers decided to win together to discuss their profession. The sole obstacle preventing them from doing with equal reason was the great distance separating them from each other. To choke this obstacle, they began publishing The Journal of the U Cavalry Association, known today as ARMOR. More freshly a group of former company commanders got together for similar reasons and harnessed the potential of the internet, creating a website called CompanyComand.com.

Although separated by dint of history and technology, these sum of two units seemingly dissimilar discussion groups share sum of two units similar traits--both are a means to share professional knowledge. More importantly, however, they have the pair earned outstanding reputations for their candor, insight, and greatest in quantity of all, their independence.

The latest forum for sharing professional knowledge is mountained ManeuverNet, which combines the best characteristics of ARMOR and CompanyCommand.com to allow its members to quickly learn yesterday's exercise s dominate today's enemies, and win tomorrow's peace.

Unlike ARMOR, mountained ManeuverNet is not limited to 52 pages of body Additionally, authors who contribute exercise s learned or other pieces of hard-earned knowledge will not ne to wait sum of two units months for feedback from other members. Finally, members can use this unrestrained forum from wherever they are located, as drawn out as internet access is available.

After reading about all of the advantages of a web-based professional forum, you may end that ARMOR's days are numbered. Nothing could be farther from the truth; in fact, the opposite is genuine The discussions that take place upon Mounted ManeuverNetcan easily develop into cutting-edge articles, which will subserve to improve the magazine's already outstanding reputation. Similarly, articles set in the magazine can be under the orders of as the catalyst for further annotate and development on the web. Together, these sum of two units professional forums will complement each other while serving to improve courses taught in the training base, preparing Soldiers and units for deployment and better assisting soldiers already in theater. single way to look at the potential of this forum is to compare it to our novel Armored Warfighting Symposium. The symposium brought together a certain quantity of of the armor force's foremost readys on the current war to exchange ideas for everyone's benefit. through all accounts, the discussions were focused, relevant, and highly useful to everyone in attendance. Although the live, resident portion of the symposium extremityed on 19 May, Mounted ManeuverNet will allow those discussions to continue indefinitely.

The quality of the discussions that take place upon this latest professional forum are highly pendent on the willingness of the forum's members to contribute. This site is actual new, and the content you may find today will improve above time and eventually take upon a life of its hold The best thing you can do to make the forum as useful as possible is to join today. Simply advance to https:// leadernetwork.bcks.army.mil, click upon Mounted ManeuverNet, and then click upon "Become a Member" under the participate section. If you already have Army Knowledge Online access and submit your complet application form, you'll gain access within about 24 hours.

single of the great things about ARMOR is that it is portable. After you read this issue of the magazine, you'll probably find more than individual article worth taking with you. This edition touches upon a variety of issues the force deals with each day. The contributing authors for this issue discuss recommendations for equipping our formations with alternatives to the M1114 organizational change to improve tactical reconnaissance, Army combatives, and the subsequent time of Force XXI battle command, brigade and below (FBCB2) This edition will also subserve to educate our readers upon basic armor theory and improvements to rifle marksmanship training. one time again, this month's magazine has a little bit of everything.

In closing, several of our readers have make comments [i]or[/i] remarksed that they would like to diocese some humor reintroduced into our pages. The magazine's staff is certainly not oppos to doing thus provided we have some humor to include. A little good-natured humor not ever hurt anyone and current incidents certainly cry out for a break in routine. If you have a humorous anecdote, cartoon, or article, by means of all means send it in. Humorous submissions really sole have two requirements: they must be in beneficial taste; and most importantly, they must be funny! Until nearest issue, take care and Forge the Thunderbolt!

by means of Order of the Secretary of the Army:

PETER J SHOOMAKER

General, United States Army Chief of Staff

Official:

JOYCE E MORROW

Administrative Assistant to the Secretary of the Army

COPYRIGHT 2006 U Army Armor Center

COPYRIGHT 2006 Gale Group