New Leaders Handbook for Scout Platoon

I created a “Leaders Handbook” for use during our Deployment.

Well, I now know more about how the 155th units will deploy, but which one will my detachment go with?

I got some info regardind MOB Dates today. Now, which unit will I MOB with?



Main Body (minus Ldr & Tng DUICs):

Organization UIC Req’d Mob MSAD # Soldiers Projected SRP

Date Completion Date



HHC WRTAA 9 Aug 04 13 Aug 04 198 16 Aug 04

255 MI Co WPBUAA 9 Aug 04 13 Aug 04 43 16 Aug 04

Signal Unit TBD 9 Aug 04 13 Aug 04 139 17 Aug 04



106 CS Bn (FSB) WTNBAA 13 Aug 04 17 Aug 04 318 20 Aug 04



A Trp, 198 Cav WTRCAA 17 Aug 04 21 Aug 04 116 23 Aug 04

1-198 AR (Bn #1) WPKQAA 17 Aug 04 21 Aug 04 365 25 Aug 04



1-155 Inf Bn (Bn #2) WPKLAA 21 Aug 04 25 Aug 04 548 29 Aug 04



114 FA Bn WPKDAA 25 Aug 04 29 Aug 04 489 6 Sep 04



150 Eng Bn WPB0AA 29 Aug 04 2 Sep 04 336 9 Sep 04



Note: This allows for 3 days at home station; 2 days of travel arriving at mob station on second day of travel; and 4 days between each arrival at the mob station.





Pre Main Body (Leader DUICs):

Recommend a mobilization date of 21 Jul 04 and MSAD of 25 Jul 04.





Phased Mob (Training DUICs):

Recommend a mobilization date of 19 Jul 04 with MSAD of 21 Jul 04. Soldiers in a Title 10 status attending schools MUST report to the mobilization FIRST, spend 2-3 days to SRP (to meet the 25-day rule/30 day REFRAD rule if determined non-deployable) BEFORE attending school on a start date of 17 Jul 04 and later.

Any soldiers in these DUICs that have a school start date before 24 Jul 04 should begin school in a Title 32 status and remain in that status until school completion. Those soldiers’ individual mobilization orders (attending in a Title 32 status) should indicate an effective mobilization date of 1-2 days following completion of the school and a MSAD of no more than 3 days following the effective date.

IF 19 Jul 04 is NOT the mob date approved, then dates mentioned above must be adjusted accordingly.

SpaceShipOne is the First Privately-Funded, Manned Spaceplane to achieve Space Flight!

In Mojave, California, SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately-funded, manned spaceplane to achieve spaceflight. It was developed by Scaled Composites.

SpaceShipOne was an experimental air-launched suborbital spaceplane that used a hybrid rocket motor. The design featured a unique "feathering" reentry system where the rear half of the wing and the twin tail booms folded upward along a hinge running the length of the wing; this increased drag while remaining stable. The achievements of SpaceShipOne are more comparable to the X-15 than orbiting spacecraft like the Space Shuttle. Accelerating a spacecraft to orbital speed requires more than 60 times as much energy as lifting it to 100 km.

SpaceShipOne was developed by Mojave Aerospace Ventures (A joint venture between Paul Allen and Scaled Composites, Burt Rutan's aviation company, in their Tier One program), without government funding. Today it made the first privately funded human spaceflight, funded completely by Paul Allen.

It is not, however the first privately-funded spacecraft to achieve spaceflight, but the first MANNED one. Prior unmanned privately funded space flights were successfully achieved by the Orbital Sciences Pegasus since 1990 and the Civilian Space eXploration Team 5 weeks ago in May 2004. Scaled Composites is also the subcontractor to Orbital Sciences who builds the composite wings and fins of their Pegasus rockets.