Disaster Relief and Rescue Operation/ Civil Military Operation/ Basic Combat Formation

Question 1

What is Civil-Military Operations?

Answer 1

encompasses those economic,
psycho-political and psycho-social
activities are undertaken by the AFP in
coordination with Civil Government
Agencies (CGA), Local Government Units
(LGU) and Non-Government
Organizations (NGO) prior to or during
subsequent to combat operations and/or
natural or man-made disasters and
calamities.

Question 2

What are the 6 AFP Personnel-oriented Programs?

Answer 2

1. Military values education (MILVED)
2. Livelihood enhancement
   (LIVELIHOOD)

CIVIL-MILITARY OPERATIONS

3. Community Relations (COMREL)
4. Civic Action (CIVAC)
5. Public Information (PUBLIC INFO)

Enemy-oriented programs

6. Psychological Operations (PSYOPS)

Question 3

Military Values Education

MILVED

Answer 3

the dynamic
process of learning
internalizing, upholding and
practicing universal truths,
moral principles and
time-honored intrinsic military
values and ethics essential to
the pursuit of AFP goals and
objectives.

Question 4

2. Military Livelihood
   Enhancement Program

LIVELIHOOD

Answer 4

designed to
provide necessary assistance to
the soldier and his dependents
to embark on productive
ventures that enable him to
cope with harsh economic
realities while in the active
service and during retirement.

Question 5

Military Civic Action
Program

CIVAC

Answer 5

the use of AFP
resources in predominantly
non-military projects and
activities useful to the people
and supportive of combat
operations in such fields as
socio-economic: health and
sanitation; agri-industrial;
education and the like.

Question 6

Community Relations Program

COMREL

Answer 6

the active participation
of AFP personnel, individual or
collectively as an AFP unit, in
people-oriented rallies like:
anti-drug abuse, anti-smut and
other campaign against immoral
activities. It also includes
open-houses, static displays of
military hardware, and use of camp
facilities/utilities for people-oriented
projects.

Question 7

5. Public Information Program

PUBLIC INFO

Answer 7

is the
dissemination of military
information through all forms of
communication media to include
inter-personal, face-to-face
communication to the internal
audience and more specifically to
the public-at-large with the view of
informing them about what the afp
has done, is doing and plans to do
to bring about peace and security.

Question 8

Fire and movement

Answer 8

When a unit makes contact with the enemy, it
normally starts firing at and moving toward the
enemy or move away from the enemy. That
technique is called fire and movement.

It is conducted either to close with and
destroy the enemy, or to move away from the
enemy so as to break contact with him.

Question 9

Four (4) types of fire team

formations:

Answer 9

Column Formation
Wedge
Skirmishes (right/left)

Question 10

Squad column

Answer 10

The squad column is the
squad's most common formation.
- It provides good dispersion
laterally and in-depth without
sacrificing control, and
facilitates maneuver.
-The lead fire team is the base
fire team.

Question 11

Squad line

Answer 11

the squad line provides maximum firepower to
the front.

• When a squad is acting as the base squad,
  the fire team on the right is the base fire team.

Question 12

Squad file.

Answer 12

• Has the same characteristics
  as the fire team file.
• If the squad leader desires to
  increase his control over the formation, exert greater morale
  presence by leading from the
  front,
• Additional control over the rear
  of the formation can be provided
  by moving a team leader to the
  last position.

Question 13

Squad file.

Answer 13

• Has the same characteristics
  as the fire team file.
• If the squad leader desires to
  increase his control over the formation, exert greater morale
  presence by leading from the
  front,
• Additional control over the rear
  of the formation can be provided
  by moving a team leader to the
  last position.

Question 14

Why we have civil defense?

Answer 14

Prevent loss of life by rescue and removal
of people to places of safety.

• Prevent needless suffering of people.
• Protect property and
• Minimize damages during disasters and
  calamities.