Serving the Soldiers, Civilians and Families of 2nd BCT, 4th Inf. Div.
Issue 12 May 13, 2010
Warhorse Soldiers honored for their service
Story by Spc. April York
2nd BCT 4th Inf. Div. PAO
Operation Tribute to Freedom connects
Soldiers from 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 4th
Infantry Division, with the American public.
OTF is a recognition program that honors
Soldiers who are currently serving or have
served in Iraq and Afghanistan.
“Every Soldier has a story to tell and people
are hungry to hear it,” said Tara Clements,
program manager of OTF, from the office,
Chief of Public Affairs in the District of
Columbia.
Soldiers from 2nd BCT, 4th Inf. Div., have
been given the chance to share their personal
experiences through appreciation events,
media interviews and speaking engagements.
1st Lt. Ray Critchfield, a bronze star
recipient from 2nd Battalion, 8th Infantry
Division, 2nd BCT, 4th Inf. Div., Sgt. Colleen
Myrick, a wheeled vehicle mechanic from 3rd
Battalion, 16th Field Artillery Regiment, 2nd
BCT, 4th Inf. Div., and Sgt. Seth Barham, a
broadcast journalist from 2nd Special Troops
Battalion, 2nd BCT, 4th Inf. Div., are just a few
Soldiers who have shared their stories with the
American public.
“It gives Soldiers a chance to speak with
the community and tell them about all the
Command Sergeant Major’s Corner
Command Sgt. Maj. Ralph F. Delosa, CSM
1st Squadron, 10th Cavalry Regiment
great things we are doing
overseas,” Barham said,
who spoke at the Colorado
Springs Rotary club.
“All too often the
community has a negative
feeling due to choice media
stories that are circulating.”
The program is run by
the Department of the Army
Community Relations in
D.C.
“We have a five man
team, and we proactively
seek out opportunities for
the Soldiers. We do all the
research to accommodate
the Soldier and make sure
they are comfortable with
their audience,” Clements
said.
It’s important for Soldiers Sgt. Seth Barham, then specialist, broadcast journalist with 2nd BCT, 4th
Inf. Div., captures a fish market on video and interacts with the locals dur-
to be heard because public ing a mission, on his last deployment to Iraq. (Photo by Staff Sgt. Rodney
support helps win wars, Foliente)
Barham said.
A Soldier’s morale is increased when their “This is America’s Army.”
family and community stand behind them. Soldiers are their neighbors, their friends
“Feedback from the public is and their family. Supporting a Soldier is
overwhelmingly positive,” Clements said. supporting their community, she added.
conducted leader certification
at the Digital Training Center
on Fort Carson.
1st Squadron, 10th Cavalry Major Ralph F. Delosa. Capt. Adam Salazar, fire
Regiment spent the last week Delosa comes to 1st Sqdn., 10th safety officer, along with Lt.
moving in multiple directions Cav. Reg., from the 10th Mountain Col. John Cook, battalion
at once, just as any good cavalry Division and brings 27 years of commander, organized and
squadron does. military experience including supervised the event.
Soldiers from Apache Troop two tours to Afghanistan as a 19 After each leader completed
organized and ran a machine gun series Soldier. a brief familiarization to the
qualification range that kicked Delosa has served as a gaming system, they were
off on Monday, running both day command sergeant major for over tested on their ability to
and night qualifications. two years, bringing a wealth of plan missions, coordinate
At the same time, the squadron leadership experience. movements, conduct actions
prepared and conducted a change During this eventful week, on contact and more. By
of responsibility on Tuesday, leaders from 1st Sqdn., 10th Cav. pairing platoon leaders and
transferring responsibility to Reg., were able to take advantage platoon sergeants together
myself, Command Sergeant of a unique opportunity and continued on page 2
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Apache Troop runs gun range
Story by 1st Lt. Geoffrey Guinnup
1st Squadron, 10th Cavalry Regiment
Apache Troop, 1st Squadron, 10th Cavalry
Regiment, was tasked with running the 240B
and M2 .50 caliber machine gun range with
both a day and night fire qualification from
May 4-7.
Each day started at 9:30 a.m. and each of
the Buffalo Soldiers began at the 10 Meter Zero
Range working to ensure their sights were set
for the qualification that immediately followed
and fired Table 1. wearing night vision goggles.
After firing each of the seven tasks required
for zeroing and completing Table 1, the Soldiers
grabbed their paper targets for reference and
moved down to the Mechanized Qualification
Range to fire Tables 2 and 3.
Those who were unable to zero had ready
access to both a concurrent training station
and a wealth of knowledge distributed
by the range staff.
Among the units to
cycle through Range
119 were Company C,
2nd Special Troops Battalion,
Company D, 204th Brigade
204th conducts leader professional development
Story and photo by 1st Lt. Jessica Maxim
204th Brigade Support Battalion
Soldiers from 204th Brigade Support
Battalion, 2nd Brigade Combat Team,
4th Infantry Division conducted a Leader
Professional Development forum on Combat
Ethics with special guest, 4th Inf. Div. Chief of
Staff, Col. Patrick L. Fetterman on April 30.
Many Soldiers in Afghanistan are operating
in remote locations without direct supervision
from commanders. To combat this trend, Lt.
Col. Todd S. Bertulis, commander of 204th
BSB, wanted to ensure he deploys “Little
Groups of Roughriders with confident,
competent leaders capable of operating under
decentralized leadership,” he said.
Leaders from the platoon to the battalion
level were present and began with a discussion
of “Ethical Decision Making; A Pragmatic
Ethical Decision Making Model For The Army:
The Ethical Triangle” by Dr. Jack D. Kem,
Colonel (Ret), US Army, an associate professor
in the Department of Joint and Multinational
Operations at the U.S. Army Command and
General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth,
Kan.
Kem’s paradigm was used as an ethical
decision-making model for leaders to apply and
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continued from page 1
under company leadership supervision,
the training not only was a rehearsal of
Support Battalion, Troops A, B, C and HHT of
battle drills and mission planning, but
1st Sqdn., 10th Cav. Reg., and a brief appearance
was truly a leadership team building
from 10th Special Forces group.
event.
All of the Soldiers that utilized the range,
The pairing allowed platoon leaders
fired both day and night iterations. Iterations
and platoon sergeants to work through
began with a select amount of familiarization
their standard operating procedures and
firing rounds and were immediately followed
even to hammer out their specific roles in
by qualification. During day qualifications,
a simulated combat environment while
Soldiers used only iron sights but as they setup
continuing to reinforce proper radio
their weapon systems for the night fire they
reporting procedures.
donned thermal sights and laser systems while
The busy week ended with the
squadron’s awards ceremony. The
Targets during the day ranged from 400
ceremony was attended by 1st Sqdn., 10th
meters to 600 meters while night qualification
Cav. Reg., elements from 2nd Special
targets ranged from 200 meters to 400 meters.
Troops Battalion, 1st Battalion, 67th
With an average cold time of 1 a.m. each
Armor Regiment and others who made
morning, approximately 90 Soldiers had fired
up Task Force Bison.
by the morning of the 7th.
Col. John S. Kolasheski was the
With the completion of
presenter and recognizied a total of 10
Range 119, 1st
Soldiers with brigade coins, 33 Soldiers
Sqdn., 10th Cav.
with Certificates of Achievement, and 20
Regiment sharpens its spear.
Soldiers with Army Achievement Medals
As they approach upcoming major
for their admirable performance at JRTC.
training exercises, these basic skills will
become crucial to the overall success of each
“Ready and Forward!”
troop.
as a whole, it is NEVER ok.
If you use torture, you have
lost all of your honor,” declared
Fetterman.
The Roughriders went on to
discuss other ethical decisions
presented in the article which may
not seem as clear or as severe, but
retrospectively appeared to add to
the escalation of violence in the
article.
Roughrider leaders left the
forum with a better understanding
Soldiers from 204th Brigade Support Battalion conducted a Leader of how each individual is
Professional Development forum on Combat Ethics with special responsible for the moral climate
guest, 4th Inf. Div. Chief of Staff, Col. Patrick L. Fetterman on April 30. within his/her organization, how
Fetterman stated that although commanders combat introduces a plethora of
need to be tough and set a standard, they opportunities for these ethical decisions and
should “refrain from always turning to the possible infractions, and the second and third
hammer because not everything is a nail.” order effects of moral actions.
Following dialogue of the model, the Bertulis charged his subordinate leaders
Roughriders discussed the October 23, 2005 with establishing, maintaining and improving
New York Times article, “Fall of the Warrior the moral climate of their unit.
King” by Dexter Filkins in which minor to Fetterman expressed his satisfaction with
major ethical infractions, such as torture, were the training and stated, “Your job as a leader,
made in combat. a lieutenant, a battalion commander is not to
“When it comes to torture, the answer is pull the trigger. It is to teach your Soldiers, to
easy – it is never ok. For the sake of humanity better understand their battlefield.”
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2-8 makes KLE a priority

Story by 1st Lt. Jeffrey Rudderforth
2nd Battalion, 8th Infantry Regiment
It is dusk in a small Middle Eastern town. A
local sheik and a local leader wait anxiously, not
sure what to expect from the new group of US
forces coming into their area. Then it comes,
the distant roar of M1A2 Abrams approaching
as leaders of this platoon arrive for the first of
many engagements with these local leaders.
This is a familiar scenario, being played out
in a shed, on a Military Operations on Urban
Terrain (MOUT) site, in the southern regions
of Fort Carson, as 2nd Battalion, 8th Infantry
Regiment, Combined Arms Battalion run their
Table 12 scenarios for their M1A2 Abrams
Tanks and Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicles
(IFV). Part of the scenario is a Key Leader
Engagement (KLE) such as the one above, in
preparation to run Table 12 lanes.
Key Leader Engagements are utilized to
aid commanders, as well as local leaders, in
advancing their goals by creating constructive
relationships with one another. All too often
the most basic war fighting tasks are taught
through the crawl-walk-run progression, and
many times the KLE process is forgotten.
“It’s important to remember early on that
even base level knowledge from a junior leader
who has experienced KLEs during training
might pay dividends at advanced training sites
and, more importantly, down range. Even if all
they remember is something as simple as basic
courtesies while inside an Iraqi/Afghan home”,
said 1st Lt. Philip Massine, the 2nd Bn., 8th Inf.
Reg., intelligence and security staff officer.
The Soldiers of 2nd Bn., 8th Inf. Reg., have
incorporated the KLE as one of the focal points
of their training plan.
Familiarizing the unit leadership with the
KLE process now, assures that Joint Readiness
Training Center ( JRTC) or National Training
Center (NTC) and deployment are not the first
time some of these leaders have to deal with
this scenario.

Chaplain’s Corner: ask, seek and knock hisIpeople to point b.

am encouraged by his story because this
As I journey through the valleys and hilltops
of my life, I often times find myself hitting this
plateau in the form of a thing called a problem.
It creates a fear within me that makes me
insecure and literally throws me off balance.
Questions ride up my coattails and into my
top hat. What happens next? Will everything
be okay? Am I okay enough to get through
this? In moments like this, people in Scripture
have provided a basis for understanding God’s
providence and give me hope.
If there was one person I could put in my
favorite five, it would be a guy named Joshua.
I don’t know if he has a last name. But his
story is found in the sixth book of the Bible,
which bears his name. Ironically, he had some
of the same fears. He was charged with the
responsibility of leading God’s people to the
Promised Land, a job previously bestowed on
a guy named Moses. He panicked. He stressed.
He lamented. Everything seemed to fall on
him. How would he make it happen? How are
the people going to respond to him? Some of
them did not like Moses. How much greater
was he? How could God give him such a task?
God, being interested in the very details of
our hearts and the framework of our beings,
reached out to Joshua. I am sure God reminded
him of what he had already done for the
people of Israel. He had also reminded him
of the continuity that he shared with Moses,
setting the bar for what was to come in their
relationship. God tells Joshua to be courageous
and not wither in the face of your fears or
anxiety, for I am here. I have been there. I
will go before you. I will stand with you. And
ultimately, I will stand. Joshua was encouraged
by God’s divine whispers and set out to bring
is where God meets us and stands with us.
He makes his place between our goals and
our completion and places a shadow over our
fears. He is enough. He gives us our tasks. He
creates the roadmap for our way. He moves the
mountains. He drains the rivers. He spins the
world.
And I know that God, whose works maintain
divine order even in the darkest of places, can
enable us all to be courageous in the mirrors
of our living. I think we just have to be willing
to be a participant in his story. He has spoken.
Everything else is just commentary.
I believe he is the exclamation point to
every question mark we will ever have. We are
encouraged to ask, seek and knock.
Sgt. Carl Hugle
204th Brigade Support Battalion
Unit Ministry Team

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Col. John S. Kolasheski..................2nd BCT Commander
Command Sgt. Maj. Kenneth Barteau.....2nd BCT CSM
Lt. Col. Richard Stebbins................................2nd BCT PAO
2nd Lt. Christopher McMillan....................................Editor
Staff Writers
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