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11 Feb

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Happy Thursday! Today is Day 8 of our series of stories of Soldier ingenuity throughout Army history.

Every day until Dragon's Lair, Episode 3 (Monday, Feb 22), we're highlighting another Soldier innovation from our past.

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March, 1969: Vietnam War.

Two infantrymen, Private 1st Class Eric Hueller and Specialist Jeffery Hale, developed an expedient method to provide visual communication between helicopter pilots in the air and infantrymen on the ground in darkness.

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Communication between air and ground was a real problem in Vietnam. Helicopter crews often operated on different radio frequencies than ground troops.

So, Private 1st Class Hueller and Specialist Hale came up with a solution.

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10 Feb

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Every day until Dragon's Lair, Episode 3 on Monday, February 22nd, we're telling another story about Soldier-driven innovations that have had a strategic impact on our Army.

This is our 7th story in that series.

These stories reveal why Dragon's Lair is so important.

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Dragon's Lair looks across all formations and all installations for new ideas, new processes, new concepts developed by our Soldiers.

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Some of the best ideas are trapped inside formations. In some cases, these ideas are buried under layers of bureaucracy and process. In others, Soldiers are just waiting for someone to ask them what they have to offer.

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9 Feb

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Today, Tues, Feb 9th, is Day 6 of our series of stories on Soldier innovations that have had a strategic impact on the Army.

Today we're going back to the Vietnam War.

We often think of the Vietnam War as an infantry fight supported by naval strikes & aerial bombing.

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That's partly true but artillery was critical to the way the Americans fought in Vietnam, particularly from 1965 to 1970.

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Because of the large areas that required protection and the enemy's surprise tactics of ambush, raid, and attack by fire, artillery units were required to respond almost instantly to calls for defensive fire.

Without rapid arty in defense, units were at grave risk.

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8 Feb

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Happy post-Super Bowl Monday!

It's February 8th, and we're TWO WEEKS away from Dragon's Lair Episode 3.

Dragon's Lair is about uplifting, embracing, and empowering Soldier innovations

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So here's what is coming up on this feed today (all times Eastern).

10AM: Video 1 or 2 highlighting the notification of Episode 3 Innovators

1PM: Video 2 of 2 highlighting the notification of Episode 3 Innovators

3PM: 🚨SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT🚨about Episode 3!!!

@USArmy

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The @USArmy has a long history of Soldier-driven innovation changing the way we operate, think, and organize for combat.

Soldiers have ideas! We just need to find and free those ideas trapped inside formations and buried under Army bureaucracy.

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7 Feb

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It's #SuperBowl Sunday! More importantly, today is Day 4 of our daily series on Soldier-driven innovations which have changed the American way of war.

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Ideas developed by American Soldiers - when endorsed by senior leaders - can alter the way our Army runs.

This series proves that point.

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So every day, until Monday, February 22nd, the start of episode 3 of Dragon’s Lair, we’re going to tell another story about a Soldier innovation that has had a strategic impact.

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6 Feb

@USArmy

Dragon's Lair is back!

Episode 3 coming up on Monday, February 22nd.

Dragon's Lair is about embracing Soldier innovations trapped inside Army bureaucracy.

There is a long history of Soldier-driven innovations changing the way the @USArmy operates.

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Every day until February 22nd, we're telling another story of
an innovator who changed the Army.

Today's innovator: Lieutenant Edwin Sibert.

#ArtilleryTwitter knows that name.

Who is Edwin and what did he do? Let's go back 90 years.

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As you know, WWI introduced a key innovation of modern industrialized warfare:indirect firepower.

Artillery during the Great War had a limited ability to influence ground maneuver, largely due to archaic communication b/w guns and between the guns and the infantry.

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