Article: Providing S-2 support for a brigade support battalion: during her deployment to Operation Iraqi Freedom, the author learned the importance of intelligence information to logisticians.

"You're the BSB S-2? What do you do all day?" When I took over the position of brigade support battalion (BSB) S-2 officer in charge, I believed in the stereotype that the support battalion S-2 job was not a desirable position. Most of the support S-2 shops I had known in my career were staffed by a lieutenant or by a noncommissioned officer (NCO) and one or two junior enlisted intelligence analysts. I was to learn over the course of the next year that the BSB S-2 section fills a very important role for the many Soldiers and leaders it supports.

From Forward Support Battalion to BSB

Before Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom and the force ...

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