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Annex B Establish A Live Fire Range Flashcards

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Officer In Charge (OIC) Over All Responsibility

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  1. OIC can also designate other assistant who are responsible for a specific area of operations.
  2. Supervise range/training area activity & enforce safety requirements.
  3. Determine when it is safe to fire.
  4. Maintains communication w/ range control & the unit operating in the range/training area
  5. Supervises the immediate action & remedial action procedures for misfires, hang-fires, and cook-offs.
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Range Safety Officer (RSO) Over All Responsibility

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  1. Ensure that misfire are handle in accordance w/ DA-Pam 385-63/MCO 3570.1c & the appropriate operators manual.
  2. Enforce all safety regulations.
  3. Ensures all ammunition is handle correctly.
  4. Conducts safety briefing to all hands before all live fire exercises.
  5. Enforces smoking restriction near vehicles, ammunition, petroleum,oil and lubricants.
  6. Investigates and reports accidents in accordance with all regulations.
  7. Ensures that weapons on live fire range are pointed towards the impact area at all times.
  8. Ensures that personnel are clear of the danger area(except as authorized in DA-PAM 385-63), MCO 3570.1C or applicable regulations)
  9. Checks all ammunition for suspended or restricted lots using TB 9-1300-385 Munitions restriction or suspended.
  10. Ensures that barriers and guard are in place before starting the exercise.
  11. Checks for proper identification and qualification and ensures transportaion of medical personnel, if used or required.
  12. Inspects and clears all wepons following the completion of fire.
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OIC

OPENING/OCCUPYING RANGE OR TA

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  • Moves to the range or training site before the unit arrives.
  • Checks communications and, for live fire exercises, ensures that backup communications are available.
  • Briefs the RSO, evaluators, and units to be trained.
  • Ensures that range equipment is present and operational
  • Ensures that the correct range or firing area is occupied.
  • Ensures that the impact area is clear of unauthorized personnel and that safety measures directed by the installation commander have been taken (use of barriers to deny access into the impact area and positioning of road guards).
  • Ensures that clearance to fire has been obtained from range control.
  • Ensures personal awareness of the SDZ for each ammo and each firing position.
  • Ensures RSO is present
  • Ensures adequate medical support is available
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OPS CHIEF

OPENING/OCCUPYING THE RANGE OR TA

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  • Sets up additional training areas.
  • Supervises ammo, targets, and administrative details.
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Master Gunner

Over All Responsibility

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  1. Preparing a SDZ and range overlay, if required.
  2. Preparinf scaled ranges if required.
  3. Organizing and setting up range firing exercises.
  4. Ensuring that range firing exercises are properly conducted.
  5. Coordinating target array and layout for range firing and qualification.
  6. Establishing remedial training on site as needed, by coordinating with the LCEs and Plt Sgt to identify crew deficiencies.
  7. Ensuring that an effective LAV-25 crew evaluator program is implemented for standardization.
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RSO

OPENING/OCCUPYING THE RANGE OR TA

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  • Is physically present at the training site.
  • Enures that barriers are closed and/or range guards are posted and briefed of their duties.
  • Ensures that no live ammo is present on a non-firing range.
  • Inspects storage, handling, and lot number for restricted or suspended ammo.
  • Inspects corpsman and vehicles.
  • Gives safety brief to everyone before all live-fire exercises.
  • Ensures personal awareness of the SDZ for each ammo from each firing position.
  • Establish LZ for MEDIVAC requests.
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MASTER GUNNER

OPENING/OCCUPYING THE RANGE OR TA

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  • Gives final briefing to the LCE’s.
  • Ensures that concurrent training is set up properly.
  • Moves to the range or training area before the firing unit.
  • Briefs the OIC of firing and the RSO on the SDZ for each ammo and each firing position.
  • Briefs the unit on the conduct of fire, and the tasks, conditions, and standards for each firing evolution.
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Operations Chief

Over All Responsibility

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Coordinates and supervises the various details and assists the OIC and the RSO in operating the range or training area.

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OIC

Closing the Training Site

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  • Ensure range control has been contacted once firing has terminated.
  • Debrief the unit personnel.
  • Ensures that the range or training area is cleared in accordance with local regulations and SOP’s.
  • Ensures all weapons are cleared. (The vehicle commanders will clear their weapons and the RSO will check them.)
  • Reports the number of duds and their approximate location in accordance with local procedures to include ammo malfunctions and accidents in accordance with MCO P5102.1B Hazard Report Manual and MCO. 8025.1E Malfunctions and Defect Reporting.
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RSO

Closing the Training Site

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  • Notifies range control once training has been terminated.
  • Checks each vehicle or weapons system to ensure it is cleared.
  • Ensures all firing status flags are displayed as per MCRP 3-10D.1.
  • Complete ammo expenditure report, and ensure it is turned into S-4 ammo section.
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Ammunition NCO

Over All Responsibility

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  1. Check any ammunition resupply to be sure its not restricted or suspended (verifies w/RSO and TB 9-1300-385)
  2. Issues the correct type and number of rounds (as instructed by the MG) and keeps a running invetory to crosscheck daily expenditures turned in to the RSO.
  3. Ensures that the ammuniton pad is maintain in an oderly fashion and continually poloced of the links, brass and packaging materials.
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Master Gunner

Closing the Training Site

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  • Coordinates with range personnel for repair of any targets or equipment.
  • Gathers appropriate computer and scoring data.
  • Debriefs the LCE’s.
  • Debiefs the unit leaders.
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Target NCO

Over All Responsibility

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  1. Ensure that target are in the proper location on the range
  2. Ensure that target detail is proficient in the operation and troubleshooting procedures for all target mechanism used.
  3. Ensure that the target detail has the required equipment and supplies and that pre-positioned target are available when needed.
  4. Ensure that there are enough spare targets,target mechanism , batteries, patches and other related equipment on the range or training site to support training
  5. Report to MG any mechanical malfuntion that require prompt replacement to continue firing.
  6. Ensure that the targets are properly thermalized as required in accordance with TC 25-8.
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Requests to establish a temporary firing range must be accompanied by a, _________________ informing the approving g authority of the specific requirements and desired area.

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Surface danger area diagram (SDAD)

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LAV- 25 Crew Evaluator (LCE)

Over all Responsibilty

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  1. Maintain a log containing records of crew

performances.

  1. Conducts crew Debrief and monitor concurrent training sites during training.
  2. Assists the MG during the conduct of the range
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Corpsman

Over all Responsiblity

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  1. Be assigned a safety vehicle and driver.
  2. Know how to get to the nearest aid station orhospital.
  3. Know the radio and telephone operating procedures to use during an air medical evacuation.
  4. Have an identification card (medical) or a disposition form from the commander stating that he is a qualified corpsman.
  5. Be properly equipped for emergencies.
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OIC

DURING EXERCISE

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  • Maintains all required comm.
  • Ensures that personnel do not move to or from the small-arms or crew-served range firing lines without permission from the OIC or RSO.
  • ensures that materiel is not removed from the firing line without permission from the OIC or RSO.
  • Monitors the SDZ to ensure that it remains clear.
  • Ensures impact area observation to assure projectiles land within prescribed limits.
  • Ensures misfires are handled in accordance with the procedures established for the weapon.
  • Ensures weapons ore cleared and checked during temporary suspensions of firing.
  • Maintains records (type of ammo fired, number of rounds fired, number of duds with approximate location).
  • Ensures firing is promptly halted when an unsafe act is observed or reported.
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Flag

Yellow and Red

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The LAV-25 has a malfunction

or misfire. Weapons are pointing at

the target area and are not clear or ammunition

is present. (The weapon arm switch is on

SAFE and manual safety is on; if not, notify

range safety personnel.)

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FLag

Yellow and Green

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The LAV-25 has a malfunction

and all weapons are clear. The weapon

arm switch is on SAFE and manual safety is

on. There is no ammunition onboard.

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Flag red and green

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The LAV-25 is preparing to fire or the crew is conducting a non-firing exercise. The 25mm gun feeder may be loaded but the bolt is in the SEAR position, the weapon arm switch is on SAFE, and the manual safety is on. The M240 coax machine gun may be loaded, bolt to the rear, and manual safety on. Ammunition is either stowed onboard or loaded in the ready boxes. The ammunition box is attached to the M240B swing mount. The weapon is clear, the bolt is forward, and the safety is on FIRE.

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” Maneuver Box”

Math equation

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(average miles per hour) X 0.44704 = (meters per sec)

*only for fixed pop ups (target exposure) + 8sec (lift time)

(Meters per sec) X (Target exposure) = Manuveur box length

Round Safe

The Manuveur box length is ^(number)Meters

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RSO

DURING EXERCISE

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  • Receives range safety brief from range control.
  • Ensures that misfires are handled in accordance with safety regulations.
  • Observes for any safety violations.
  • Clears each LAV-25 upon completion of exercise.
  • Ensures all vehicle firing status flags are displayed.
  • Ensures he remains located in the best possible location to observe training being conducted to ensure safe operation.
  • Ensure proper PPE is worn
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MASTER GUNNER

DURING EXERCISE

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  • Ensures that range firing is conducted in accordance with the appropriate gunnery table.
  • Ensures remedial training is conducted by LCEs on site as needed.
  • Ensures correct zeroing is accomplished.
  • Supervises the LCE’s.
  • Assists safety personnel to clear weapons, when required.
  • Assists maintenance personnel to troubleshoot and correct fire control malfunctions, when required.
  • Assists the commander to determine or verify alibi conditions.
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The ________________ checks any ammunition resupply to be sure it is not restricted or suspended ( verifies with _______ and _______________

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Ammunition NCO, RSO TB 9-1300-385

25
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SOP should also describe specific task that the _____ will be responsible for & ______ that the BN will support

A

Firing Unit ; task

26
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The _____________ and ____________ allow you to derive a value for distance X

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Ballistic firing tables, ricochet data

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OPS CHIEF

DURING EXERCISE

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  • Supervises all work details.
  • Controls the movement of personnel from firing positions to additional training and other administrative areas.
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Remove ______________ plastic or ___________ or other flat _____________ objects with a vertical or near vertical surface in the target area when using laser range finders.

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Mirrors, glass, mirror-like

29
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The master gunner assists the ____________ and the _________ in planning, developing, and ____________ gunnery training.

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Commander, staff, conducting

30
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The RSO is a _________, warrant officer, or staff noncommisioned officer (____) (E-6 or higher) who is weapons system _______

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Commissioned Officer SNCO Qualified

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In order to prevent the ___________ from being reflected, remove mirrors, plastic or glass, or other flat mirror-like objects with a vertical surface in the _________ that might reflect the _________ and cause injury.

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Laser beam, target area, laser beam

32
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TC-25-8 should be used when ensuring that the ________________ shape, size and color accurately represents the _____________.

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Full scale targets should be the same, threat targets they represents.

33
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Who supervises all working details during the conduct of the range?

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Operations chief

34
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Assets, ___________ and company training are considerations that should be reflected when ___________________.

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Battalion training, conducting LAV-25 combat training

35
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What must the corpsman possess or be assigned prior to the conduct of the range?

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An identification card (medical) or a disposition form from the commander stating that he is a qualified corpsman.

(Be assigned a safety vehicle and driver. Know how to get to the nearest air station or hospital. Know the radio and telephone. Operating procedures to use during an air medical evacutaion. Be properly equipped for emergencies.)

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The ________ can designate assistants who are responsible for specific _______________.

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OIC ,areas of operation

37
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The __________ should provide guidelines to the firing unit for ___________ the range

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SOP, occupying

38
Q

The RSO is a ___________, warrant officer or staff non commissioned officer (_____) (E-6 or higher) who is weapons systems ____________.

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Commission officer, SNCO, qualified

39
Q

You should prepare a _________ and perform ground reconnaissance of the available firing areas before __________ for a scaled or a full-caliber range.

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Deatailed map, selecting a site

40
Q

The SOP should also describe specific tasks that the __________ will be responsible for and _____________ that the BN will support.

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Firing unit, hand over of specific tasks

41
Q

If it is __________________ to remove flat mirror like objects from the target area when using _________________, cover the surface with lusterless paint or non-reflecting material, such as _______ or cardboard

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Impractical, laser range finders, cloth

42
Q

Prior to a scaled or full caliber range, you should prepare a ____ and preform ___ of the available firing areas.

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detailed map, ground reconnaissance.

43
Q

Average vehicle speed for course, _____, target exposure time must be known to calculate ______.

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Target Lift Time, maneuver box.

44
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What are the duties of the master gunner while establishing a live fire range?

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Ensuring that an effective LAV-25 crew evaluator program is emplemented for standard. Establishing remedial training on site as needed by coordinating target array and layout for range firig and qualification, ensuring that range exercise are properly conducted organizing and setting up range exercise preparies(cant read your writing) scaled ranges if required. Preparing a surface dangerous disgram and range over lay if required.

45
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What is NOT a responsibility of the OIC ?

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Ensure all LCEs have been qualified within the last 6 months.

46
Q

True or False.

The RSO will have no more than two responsibilities during range firing?

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False.

47
Q

True or False.

The range selected for live fire training must be large enough to accommodate all weapon systems to be used during training and the scenario requirements of the table(s) to be fired.

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True.

48
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A

Master Gunners 1-19 (15 decks)

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