Forming the Company Intelligence Support Team

摘要

Followingia field exercise in May2010, the 54th Engineer Battalion dirfected its three line companies to restructure themselves and add a new team—a company intelligence support team (CoIST)—to their headquarters sections. The three companies—the 370th Engineer Company (Sapper), 541st Engineer Company (Sapper), and 535th Engineer Support Company—consolidated line platoons and created CoISTs using Soldiers who were not required to fill the ranks of the other platoons. Each company manned its CoISTs differently, since the team does not yet exist on the modified table of organization and equipment. The 541st built a six-man team consisting of a senior lieutenant, a senior sergeant first class, a sergeant, and three junior enlisted Soldiers.