General Flashcards
Battle Drills
1. Platoon attack 1A. Squad attack 2. React to contact 3. Break contact 4. React to ambush 5. Knock out a bunker 6. Enter building / clear room 7. Enter/clear trench 8. Conduct a breach of a mined wire obstacle
Troop Leading Procedures
- Receive the mission
- Issue the warno
- Make a tentative plan
- Start necessary movement
- Conduct reconnaissance
- Complete the plan
- Issue the order
- Supervise and refine
Types of orders
FRAGO: fragmentary order
WARNO: warning order
OPORD: operation order
Paragraphs of orders
- Situation
- Mission
- Execution
- Sustainment
- Command and control
Major terrain features
Hilltop Valley Ridge Saddle Depression
Minor terrain features
Draw
Spur
Cliff
Man-made terrain features
Cut
Fill
Colors of a map
Black: man-made features, buildings
Brown: contour, elevation, relief
Blue: water and drainage
Green: vegetation with military significance
Red: main roads, populated areas, boundaries
Red-brown: contour, elevation, and relief on red light maps
Three types of contour lines
Index
Intermediate
Supplementary
Three types of North
True
Grid
Magnetic
Grid accuracy
6 digit: within 100 m
8 digit: within 10 m
10 digit: within 1 m
How to plot and read points
Right and up