Air Assault Operations

Question 1

Identify the five component plans of an air assault

Answer 1

Begin with the ground tactical plan and work backwards to the staging plan*
1) Ground Tactical Plan
2) Landing Plan
3) Air Movement Plan
4) Loading Plan
5) Staging Plan
Boots on deck, cover fire by helicopters, PCCs PCIs, duct tape in windows

Question 2

Identify the three types of insert / extract tactics

Answer 2

-X: less that 300m of the objective (Small arms range)
-Y: >300<1,000m of objective (med/hvy mgun range)
-Offset: >1,000m f/ objective (outside med/hvy gun range)
**The closer the less the GCE has to move, but may be too dangerous. Balance based on a conversation between GCE and ACE. How many helps can fit? Min boots on deck? May need a larger zone further away.

Question 3

Define Go Criteria / No-Go Criteria

Answer 3

Go is set for GCE and ACE. Friendly based (equip, personnel, conditions)
No GO is set for GCE and ACE. Enemy and Wx based. **We cannot mitigate this so we will not play.

Question 4

Define Ice /Cherry

Answer 4

-Ice: zone has enemy activity that is BELOW the pre-briefed risk tolerance of the mission commander for the ground and air assets.
-Cherry: zone has enemy activity that is AT or ABOVE the pre-briefed risk tolerance of the mission commander for the ground and air assets.

Question 5

Define Immediate Re-embark and Emergency Extract

Answer 5

-Immediate reembark: Permissive environment. Expeditious embarkation of troops to move them to another location in resins to an insert abort (Desert becomes flooded, dropped off at the wrong LZ)
-Emergency evacuation: Semi to Non-permissiive environment. Extraction of a unit that is in contact or contact is imminent with an overwhelming enemy force. Trying to get them out of there

Question 6

Identify billet responsible for completing the Assault Support Serial Assignment Table (ASSAT)

Answer 6

AFC

Question 7

Identify information provided by the Assault Support Serial Assignment Table (ASSAT) and Assault Support Landing Table (ASLT)

Answer 7

-ASSAT: Assigns serials to personnel and equipment (serials defined by mission capabilities), with weights, and includes the bump plan).
-ASLT: Assigns serials to waves to LZs on a time schedule. Which serial is going to on which aircraft