Expeditionary Tactics Flashcards
What is CCD?
- Cover
- Concealment
- Decoy
What does survivability encompass?
All actions taken to conserve personnel, facilities, and supplies from the enemy.
To avoid disclosing a fighting position, NEVER?
- Leave shiny things exposed
- Remove shirts in the open
- Use fires
- Leave tracks
- Look up at aircraft
Describe Hasty Fighting positions.
- Shallow pit
- Temporary for prone position only
- Creates a low parapet
Describe the improved one-man Fighting positions.
- Wide enough for one man’s shoulders
- Water sump in the base of pit
- Grenade sump 30 deg (large enough to accept largest known enemy grenade)
Describe the improved Two-Man Fighting Position
- 2; 1 man fighting positions together
- Allows for 1 up 1 down
Discuss the crew serve fighting position
- Constructed so gun fires to the front and oblique
- Two personnel required to keep gun firing
- Gun’s height reduced by digging tripod platform lower
What are the vehicle fighting positions?
- Lead infantry squad (personnel in front)
- Lead combat vehicles (personnel behind vehicles)
- Lead combat vehicles & squad (personnel on both sides)
- Combat vehicle wedge
- Combat vehicle echelons
What are the 3 general rules for camouflage?
- use available natural concealment
- camouflage by altering the from, shadow, shape, texture, and object
- camouflage from both ground and air observation
How do you camouflage a fighting position?
- Study terrain and vegetation
- Don’t use too much material
- Conceal excavated soil
- Practice discipline (no trash)
How would you apply face paint?
- Light green for light skinned personnel (other than snowy regions)
What is BAMCIS?
- Begin planning (receipt of the mission)
- Arrange recon (what information am I lacking)
- Make recon (gather the information)
- Complete the plan (METT-TC)
- Issue the order (Issue orally to subordinates)
- Supervise (Inspect, observe, lead)
What is an Azimuth?
- Horizontal angle, measured in a clockwise manner from a north baseline
- One circle has 360 decor 6400 mils
What is a back Azimuth, how do you obtain it?
- 180 degrees the opposite of an azimuth
- Less than 180; add 180
- More than 180; subtract 180
What are the 2 methods for using a compass?
- Center hold (centered between two index fingers)
- Compass to cheek
In land nav, what method is used to bypass an obstacle?
Box method, moving at right angles for equal distances
How can grids be identified?
4 digits: 1000M
6 digits: 100M
8 digits: 10M
What is the purpose of resection?
To determine what your location is on a map
What do you need to effectively use resection?
- Must identify be able to use 2 distinct terrain features
What is a SPOT report?
Hastily modified SALUTE report provided what under fire.
What is a SALUTE report?
Report given when the observed activity of the enemy does not pose immediate threat.
- Size
- Activity
- Location
- Uniform
- Time
- Equipment
What is the purpose of a Security Patrol?
To provide physical security to an area
What is the purpose of a Recon Patrol?
- to gather intel
- enemy locations
- discover enemy avenues of approach
What are the 12 steps to planning a Patrol?
- Study the mission (Save)
- Plan use of time (Palmer)
- Study the terrain (Some)
- Organize (Oreo’s)
- Select personnel (So)
- Issue the WARNO (I)
- Coordinate (Can)
- Make recon (Make)
- Complete the plan (Chief)
- Issue the order (In the)
- Supervise (September)
- Execute the mission (Exam)
Who determines the formation of the patrol?
Squad leader
What are the elements of a Rifle Platoon?
- 1 SQD LDR
- 1 GRDR
- 3 AR’s
- 3 FTL’s
- 3 RFLMN #1
- 3 RFLMN # 2
What is the responsibility of the SQD LDR?
- PO1 w M16
- Training, appearance, and discipline
- Fire discipline of squad
