New LRS unit at Lewis

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New LRS unit at Lewis

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FYI- I just got back from Lewis and there is a new LRS unit forming. I remember it used to be the 14th MI in the 90's and then they got closed down. It is standing back up currently with NG and then changing to active duty. Not sure of unit designation.
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lonergr77 wrote: It is standing back up currently with NG and then changing to active duty. .
Explain this part if you are able.
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I was given the heads up from a former 2/75 buddy that is now with the Strykers. (?) I guess the unit was the active duty NG school house for NG guys before they went over seas. To my understanding after 4 days on base was that they had a Recon mission overseas for the NG and it was identified as a missing element for the Corp at Lewis.
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lonergr77 wrote:I was given the heads up from a former 2/75 buddy that is now with the Strykers. (?) I guess the unit was the active duty NG school house for NG guys before they went over seas. To my understanding after 4 days on base was that they had a Recon mission overseas for the NG and it was identified as a missing element for the Corp at Lewis.
I just didn't understand the mechanism or manning swap to turn a NG unit into and AD unit. I guess it's all semantics.
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Silverback wrote:
lonergr77 wrote:I was given the heads up from a former 2/75 buddy that is now with the Strykers. (?) I guess the unit was the active duty NG school house for NG guys before they went over seas. To my understanding after 4 days on base was that they had a Recon mission overseas for the NG and it was identified as a missing element for the Corp at Lewis.
I just didn't understand the mechanism or manning swap to turn a NG unit into and AD unit. I guess it's all semantics.
I think he meant the tasking is currently with ng and then will switch to ad.

When I was LRS @ Lewis F/425 ng "back" us up.....when they deactivated I corps LRS, 425 became the Corps LRS asset.
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BadMuther wrote:
Silverback wrote:
lonergr77 wrote:I was given the heads up from a former 2/75 buddy that is now with the Strykers. (?) I guess the unit was the active duty NG school house for NG guys before they went over seas. To my understanding after 4 days on base was that they had a Recon mission overseas for the NG and it was identified as a missing element for the Corp at Lewis.
I just didn't understand the mechanism or manning swap to turn a NG unit into and AD unit. I guess it's all semantics.
I think he meant the tasking is currently with ng and then will switch to ad.

When I was LRS @ Lewis F/425 ng "back" us up.....when they deactivated I corps LRS, 425 became the Corps LRS asset.
Thanks for the input but it's not as simple as a "tasking". There is a lot of work when standing a unit up and to multiply that by switching from NG to AD is not as simple as it sounds.
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I was just talking with 2 former SFC Bat Boys who just came down on orders for the unit. They are to report early November 08 to stand up the unit.
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I wish the Army would make up it's fucking mind regarding LRS. They want it, they don't. It needs to be at Corps, it needs to be at Division, it needs to be at both. I'd be surprised if they even have a decent METL that supports (if anyone actually knows) what they do or is expected of them. It's great that they are bring it back to Ft Lewis but I sure hope they know what the fuck they are going to do with it.

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BadMuther wrote:[When I was LRS @ Lewis F/425 ng "back" us up.....when they deactivated I corps LRS, 425 became the Corps LRS asset.
Tasking is entirely different from activating. F/425 was still NG in state service, no matter who they were capstoned to.
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rangertough wrote:I wish the Army would make up it's fucking mind regarding LRS. They want it, they don't. It needs to be at Corps, it needs to be at Division, it needs to be at both. I'd be surprised if they even have a decent METL that supports (if anyone actually knows) what they do or is expected of them. It's great that they are bring it back to Ft Lewis but I sure hope they know what the fuck they are going to do with it.

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The METL doesn't support the unit the unit supports the METL. I think you might have meant MTOE.
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JLTW!!! wrote:I am just a dumb bumpkin' but it seems to me that LRS (D or C) should fall under USASOC or something. NOT B/C I THINK IT IS ALL BADASS AND SUPER HIGH SPEED OR ANYTHING, but b/c I think too many commanders don't know how and/or are scared to utilize them. However, SF can do that mission themselves and Regt. has RRC, so where would/does that leave LRS? Div or Corps level asset that most are unwilling to use or "risk", at least it seems that way, although that is a broad brush stroke admittedly.
The problem is that "LRS" as it was manned and executed during the cold war era is no longer a viable concept. There are some obvious mission overlaps but things have changed considerably (says Lothar "Master of the painfully obvious").

The thought of a six man team conducting a static line infiltration into enemy controlled territory is a romantic thought, but reality is...nearly the same surveillance or reconnaissance can be conducted remotely these days and without the risk to personnel and manned aircraft.
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Silverback wrote:
rangertough wrote:I wish the Army would make up it's fucking mind regarding LRS. They want it, they don't. It needs to be at Corps, it needs to be at Division, it needs to be at both. I'd be surprised if they even have a decent METL that supports (if anyone actually knows) what they do or is expected of them. It's great that they are bring it back to Ft Lewis but I sure hope they know what the fuck they are going to do with it.

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The METL doesn't support the unit the unit supports the METL. I think you might have meant MTOE.
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I see where you are coming from but I meant METL. What I meant is I hope that the unit is given the oportunity to execute a METL that fits more closely with what a LRS unit is designed for. Lets face it a LRS isn't designed for running and gunning on convoys, nor are the designed to fill a scouts role either. LRS units have been treated as bastard children for a long time. First, because a lot of DIV/CORPS Commanders want to depend on ELINT and Imagery from drones than on the word of some lowly private in a survalence position. Second, Commanders are just not informed of what their LRS are capable of.

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Dammit SB you posted before I hit the freakin' send button. What you just said is what I am talking about. You just said it better.

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