Cavalry Scout Club Overview

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Cavalry Scout Club Overview
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Purpose

• Provide overview of Cavalry Scout Club and an
  update on current training objectives and
  schedule.

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Club Mission

• To better prepare cadets for combat through
  education and training on doctrinal and current
  missions of United States Cavalry and Armor
  organizations through rigorous field exercises
  and training events inspire cadets through
  exposure to the history and traditions of the
  Armys mounted maneuver force.

Scouts are experts in the use of organic
weapons, indirect fires, land navigation,
supporting fires, demolitions, obstacles,
communications, reconnaissance, human
intelligence (HUMINT) collection, liaison, and
security techniques. They must be familiar with
infantry, mortar, and combined arms tactics and
be able to react to rapidly changing situations
they must also know how to employ combat support
(CS) assets that are attached to or supporting
the platoon.  ST 3-20.983
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Training Philosophy

• Train in such a manner that prepares Cadets to
  lead and fight in the GWOT as mounted,
  combined-arms leaders. Training will nest the
  Troop METL with the BTD training guidance and the
  CFT 2 collective tasks while reinforcing Military
  Science Core Course learning objectives.
• Allows for flexibility in scheduling training
  objectives for BTD are met in multiple forums.
• Supports BTD objectives to provide Cadets with
  reinforcement training in tasks contained in
  training guidance.
• Creates leaders within the Corps of Cadets for
  summer training.
• Provides conduit between academic year
  instruction, academic year training, and summer
  training.
• Replicate current operating environment and
  missions assigned to Cavalry and Armor units in
  the CENTCOM AOR.

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BTD / CST Collective Tasks

• BTD Collective Tasks
• Demonstrate proficiency at convoy operations.
• Demonstrate proficiency at checkpoint operations.
• Demonstrate proficiency at IED identification.
• CFT Collective Tasks
• Execute access control point operations.
• Execute QRF operations.
• Execute convoy operations.
• Execute movement to contact through search and
  attack operations.
• Execute cordon and search operations.
• USED BTD / CFT COLLECTIVE TASKS TO BUILD
  SQUADRON METL FOR THE CAVALRY SCOUT CLUB

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Squadron METL

• Conduct zone/area reconnaissance.
• Conduct area security.
• Conduct route security.
• Conduct urban area reconnaissance.
• Establish base operations.
• Conduct a cordon and search in an urban area.
• Employ a reserve (QRF) during stability ops.

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METL Crosswalk
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Troop Mission

• Blackhawk Troop, 1-21 CAV deploys during Academic
  Year 2007 within the NORTHCOM AO in order to
  prepare as future mounted leaders.

Scouts are experts in the use of organic
weapons, indirect fires, land navigation,
supporting fires, demolitions, obstacles,
communications, reconnaissance, human
intelligence (HUMINT) collection, liaison, and
security techniques. They must be familiar with
infantry, mortar, and combined arms tactics and
be able to react to rapidly changing situations
they must also know how to employ combat support
(CS) assets that are attached to or supporting
the platoon.  ST 3-20.983
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Organization
Expanded from 2 platoons to 3 platoons. Able to
accommodate 18-30 troopers per line platoon. Full
HQ platoon with 20 troopers. Endstate Troop
maintains between 90 100 active members.
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Troop METL

• Conduct zone/area reconnaissance.
• Conduct area surveillance.
• Conduct convoy security operations
• Conduct urban area reconnaissance.
• Secure a basecamp.
• Support checkpoint operations.
• Execute actions on contact.

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METL Crosswalk
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METL Crosswalk
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Major Training Events 1st Semester
Weekends Available B 6 (Ring, Labor Day, PPW,
Navy, Thanksgiving) A/C - 4 (2 A/C, 1, EST C2,
1 FTX) A/D 2 (2 Home Football Games) F 3
(Home Football)