Common Core 108 Expeditionary Tactics Flashcards
3 categories of Standard Issue Gear
1) Fighting/Load Carrying
2) Bivouac
3) Protective
Can be mixed and combined as necessary
Standard 782 issue consists of:
- Pistol Belt with 2 magazine pouches
- Pack, usually a medium size
- H-Harness or suspenders
May also include:
- Wet weather gear
- Sleeping bags and poncho liners
- Water carrier (canteen or camelbak)
- Ballistic Vest
Fighting Positions
1) Hasty Position: Skirmisher’s Trench provides temporary, open, prone firing position for an individual rifleman
2) Improved One Man: Made as small as possible to give the smallest target to the enemy. Just wide enough for a man’s shoulders and deep enough to use entrenching tools at the bottom
3) Improved Two Man: Essentially two one man holes put together. Provides less protection from tanks, bombing, strafing, and shelling
Individual Camouflage
- Exposed skin reflects light
- Substitute face paint with charcoal, burnt cork, lamp black.
- Black is not a good night color camouflage
Vehicle Camouflage
- Park the vehicle under natural cover whenever available
- Use natural material to break up the shape and shadow of the vehicle.
Building Camouflage
- Can be concealed using screens of garnished nettings
- Disruptive patterns painted over the netting, roof, and gable-end walls
- Netting should be sloped gradually to the ground
- Roofs that slope greater than 30 degrees the netting must cover the whole building
Supply Points Camouflage
-Disperse supplies to minimize damage from a single attack
Flares
- When caught in the open at night with an overhead flare, immediately hit the deck.
- If you hear the flare fired, but it did not burst, hit the ground before it does.
- Resume movement as soon as the flare burns out.
- if you’re caught in the light of a ground flare, move out of the area of light as quickly and quietly as possible
KOCOA
- Key Terrain
- Observation and Fields of Fire
- Concealment and Cover
- Obstacles to Movement
- Avenues of Approach
Land Navigation requires:
- Map
- Compass
- Pace Count
BAMCIS
- Begin Planning
- Arrange Recon
- Make Recon
- Complete the Planning
- Issue the Order
- Supervise
SMEAC
5 paragraph order
- Situation (enemy forces, friendly forces, attachments & detachments)
- Mission (concise statement of mission)
- Execution (assigns definitive tasks to each element)
- Administration and Logistics (contains instructions for both)
- Command and Signal
SALUTE
When observed activities of the enemy so not pose a threat
- Size
- Activity
- Location
- Unit
- Time
- Equipment
SPOT
- Modified SALUTE report.
- Rapid way to inform chain of command of vital information and should be followed up with a SALUTE report.
Security Patrol
Concerned with defensive combat
Reconnaissance Patrol
Information Gathering Patrol
Fire Plan
- Sectors or Zones of Fire
- Individual Fighting Positions
- Crew Served Weapons
- Rifleman Positions
- Terrain Features
- Fire Team Leader
Squad consists of:
- Squad Leader
- Grenade
- Fire team leader
- Machine gunner
- Rifleman #1
- Rifleman #2, etc.
Fire Team Formations
- Column
- Wedge
- Skirmish
- Echelon
Code of Conduct: Article I
I am an American, fighting in the forces which guard my country and our way of life. I am prepared to give my life in their defense.
Code of Conduct: Article II
I will never surrender of my own free will. If in command, I will never surrender the members of my command while they still have the means to resist.
Code of Conduct: Article III
If I am captured, I will continue to resist by all means available. I will make every effort to escape and aid others to escape. I will except neither parole nor special favors from the enemy.
Code of Conduct: Article IV
If I become a prisoner of war, I will keep the faith with my fellow prisoners. I will give no information or take part in any action which might be harmful to my comrades. If I am senior, I will take command. If not, I will obey the lawful orders of those appointed over me and will back them up in every way.
Code of Conduct: Article V
When questioned, should I become a prisoner of war, I am required to give name, rank, service number, and date of birth. I will evade answering further questions to the utmost of my ability. I will make no oral or written statements disloyal to my country and its Allies or harmful to their cause.
Code of Conduct: Article VI
I will never forget that I am an American, fighting for freedom, responsible for my actions, and dedicated to the principles which made my country free. I will trust in my god and in the United States America.
Enemy Prisoners
- Never attack those who surrender
- Never kill, torture, or mistreat prisoners
- Never take personal property
- Do not violate their civil rights
- You may have to relocate civilians
- You may not use poison or poisonous weapons
THREATCONS
ALPHA (least restrictive)
BRAVO
CHARLIE
DELTA (Most Restrictive)
Rules of Engagement
Commanders have the inherent authority and obligation to use all necessary means available and to make all appropriate actions in the self-defense of their unit and other US forces in the vicinity.
Deadly Force
Justified when lesser means have been exhausted, are unavailable, or cannot be reasonably used.
Types of Wire Entanglement
1) Tactical-Wire Entanglement
2) Protective-Wire Entanglement
3) Supplementary-Wire Entanglement
Tactical-Wire Entanglement
- Used parallel to and along the friendly side of the final protective line.
- Break up enemy attack formations.
- Hold the enemy in areas covered by the most intense defensive fire.
Protective-Wire Entanglement
- Prevents surprise assaults from points close to the defense area.
- Placed close enough to the defense area for day/night observation.
- Place far enough away to prevent hand grenade use.
Supplementary-Wire Entanglement
- Placed directly in front of the forward edge of the battle area (FEBA)
- Conceal the exact line of the tactical wire
- Also used in the rear of the FEBA
- Enclose the entire defensive position by connecting the protective-wire entanglements.
- Also used to break up the line of tactical-wire
Column
- Used when speed and control are governing factors, such as moving through woods, fog, smoke, and along roads and trails.
- Favorable for fire and maneuvers to either flank, but is vulnerable to fire from the front.
Wedge
- Used when the enemy situation is unknown but contact is possible.
- Provides all-round protection and flexibility and is easy to control.
Skirmish
- When assaulting a known enemy position
- Also useful for “mopping up” operations and crossing short, open areas.
- Provides maximum firepower to the front. However, the formation is difficult to control.
Echelon (Left or Right)
- Used primarily to protect and exposed flank.
- Permits heavy firepower to both the front and the direction of echelon.
- Difficult to control; movement is generally slow.
When your convoy is fired upon
- Drive through the Kill zone.
- Return fire immediately if possible.
- When clear and disabled vehicles are still in the zone, stop and take immediate offensive of action.
- Subsequent vehicles approaching the zone should halt short of the Kill zone.
- If hardened vehicles are forced to stop in the zone, all available weapons return fire.
- Attack the ambush
