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Interview with MAJ Ross Davis

出版	Combat Studies Institute, 2007
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=7A-aYgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Major Ross Davis, an officer in the Texas Army National Guard, served on an embedded training team (ETT) assigned to an Afghan infantry battalion - initially as the executive officer mentor, then later as the operations officer mentor and finally kandak commander mentor - in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. In this interview, he discusses the training and operations done with his ETT's Afghan unit, which was based in Ghazni Province, including combat ops, patrols and village assessments. Davis also talks about the greatest challenges he faced as a battalion-level mentor, such as intelligence collection and management, as well as a variety of logistics issues; how well the Afghans were equipped in terms of weapons and communications assets; the nature of enemy contact they received and how they responded; the difficulties posed by constant turnover of battalion logistics officers; and the expertise brought to his ETT by four Romanians who were assigned to them at one point. In addition, Davis explains how and what the effects were of being left with only three ETT members on his team (down from 17) by the time he was to redeploy. He closes by citing what he considered his ETT's most significant accomplishment - namely a brigade-level operation conducted near the end of his tour - and further stresses the importance of not breaking up established teams and matching mentor slots with each soldier's particular skill set.