Fort Bliss Monitor

Army lifecycle concept
108th Soldiers to rotate with 35th in Korea

Sgt. Lewis M. Hiburn
32nd AAMDC

Last October, the 32nd Army Air and Missile Defense Command and family members said goodbye to the 35th Air Defense Artillery Brigade and the 2nd Battalion, 1st Air Defense Artillery. The units are now forward deployed in Korea and assigned to the 8th United States Army. These Soldiers have established the foundation for the success of future Patriot rotations to Korea.

Before 35th ADA Bde. and 2nd Bn., 1st ADA deployed to Korea the unit had to be manned, trained and certified at Fort Bliss. Future units will go through the same procedures before deploying to the Korean theater of operations, according to Lt. Col. Dan Sauter, 32nd AAMDC operations officer.

Elements of the 35th ADA Bde. will be replaced by batteries of the 108th ADA Bde., Sauter said.
“Four air defense batteries from the 108th will be manned, trained and certified at Fort Bliss and deploy to Korea to replace four batteries in Korea. Those four batteries they are replacing will redeploy back to Fort Bliss, The four redeploying batteries will be assigned to the same battalion headquarters that provided the batteries to them,” he said. This plan lays a foundation for four batteries to be rotated every six months, he added.

Sauter said this rotation is modeled after the Army’s lifecycle concept – fully manning a unit, training and deploying them for a period of time. Once the unit comes down on orders for the rotation, Soldiers of that unit will be stabilized six months prior to the deployment. During that time individual collective training will be conducted, which will be certified in a mission rehearsal exercise. They will deploy to the theater of operations and a week later the unit they are replacing will redeploy back to home station, or in this case Fort Bliss, he said.

Once deployment is complete, the unit will be brought back and allowed some reset time so they can take care of Noncommissioned Officer Education System, Officer Education System and various other administrative tasks, Sauter said.

“We will be one of the Army’s first units to do this. The Army will look at how we are doing it and use it as a model for observations and lessons learned,” he added.

The units deploying and redeploying will fall in on the previous unit equipment, according to Maj. Dean Larkins, operations officer for the 32nd AAMDC. Simply stated, the units will not take their own equipment over or bring equipment back.

Soldiers in the 35th ADA Bde. headquarters, the battalion headquarters and the battalion maintenance companies will not be part of the lifecycle rotation. They will be on an individual permanent change of station assignment. Soldiers will PCS to replace them and their next duty assignment will be determined by their branch managers who determine the needs of the Army and the needs of the Soldier, according to Larkins.
He wanted the Soldiers and families to know, “It’s not like the old Saudi rotations. Where a Soldier, in a span of two to three years, will go to Saudi five to six times, you won’t have to worry about that with the Korea rotations.” Larkins said, “What’s forefront in everyone’s mind and vision is accomplishment of the mission and to take care of the Soldier and the Soldier’s family.



www.bliss.army.mil	Published for the Fort Bliss/El Paso, Texas Community	January 27, 2005

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