FMF 110 Tactical Measures Flashcards
- Unaided day & night observation techniques
-Avoid all unnecessary movement.
-Use all available concealment because it offers a low silhouette and makes detection by the enemy difficult.
-Preserve night vision when subjected to lighted areas or illumination.
-Demonstrate techniques that enhance hearing.
110.1 Off-Center Vision Method
Viewing an object by looking at 6-10 degrees above, below, or to either side of the object rather than directly at it.
110.1 Scanning method
-Able to overcome the physiological limitations of their eyes.
-Looking from right to left or left to right using a slow, regular scanning movement.
110.1 Strip Method
-In daylight, look at the ground closest to you.
-Observe close to your post & search a narrow strip 50 meters going right to left or left to right.
-Search left to right a second time and same strip farther away but overlaps the first.
-Continue to observe until entire field of view has been searched.
110.1 Preserving night vision
Entering a lighted area, one eye should be closed & covered to preserve its night vision.
Red light helps preserve night vision.
110.1 Techniques that enhance hearing
-Amplified with mouth open.
-Remove the helmet, reduces sound distortion.
-Ear to the ground, can hear people walking and vehicles moving.
SALUTE
Size
Activity
Location
Unit Identity
Time
Equipment
110.3 SMEAC
Situation
Mission
Execution
Admin & Logistics
Command & Signal
110.3 Situation
Environment/Enemy Forces/ Friendly Forces/ Attachments & Detachments.
110.3 Mission
Clear and concise statement of the task
110.3 Execution
Task organization of the patrol or movement to the objective area to include navigation method.
110.3 Admin & Logisitics
Info about rations and ammo, corpsman, and aid stations.
110.3 Command & Signal
Prearranged signals, password & countersigns, radio call signs/frequencies & emergency signals.
110.4
Column Formation
110.4
Echelon left/right
110.4
Skirmishers left/right
110.4
Wedge Formation
110.4
Squad
110.4
Platoon
110.4
cease fire
110.6 Individual Fighting Position
Small as practicable, wide enough for the shoulders of a man sitting on the fire step, long enough to use entrenching tool, at least 4 feet deep to fire step, Marine be able to aim & fire a weapon.11
110.6 Two-man Fighting Position
-Gives protection against tanks.
-Soil is piled around the hole as a parapet, 3 feet thick and 1/2 foot high, leaving a berm or shelf wide enough for the marine to use an elbow rest while firing.
-If turf/topsoil, the Marine removes sufficient ground cover and sets it aside until the fighting hole is completed.
-Once done, ground cover can be laid on top and side of the parapet so that it will better blend in with the surroundings.
Advantages of 2 man fighting hole
Continuous observation, mutual assistance, reassurance, redistribution of ammo between the 2 occupants.
Disadvantages of 2 man fighting hole
Less protection against:
-Protection from tanks
-strafing
-bombing
-shell fragments
