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Introduction to the Rifle Platoon Flashcards

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What is a Rifle PLT

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  • Led by a platoon commander
  • 3 rifle squads and a platoon headquarters
  • Rifle SQD is made up of 3 fire teams and SL
  • Headquarters element
  • Platoon sergeant
  • Platoon guide
  • Radio-transmitter operator (RTO)
  • Corpsman
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Responsibility of PLT CMDR

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  • Responsible for deployment, tactical employment, discipline, morale, and welfare
  • Five horizontal themes
  • Carries out the orders of the Rifle Co CMDR
  • Proficent w/ all T/O weapons
  • Ensure PLT is trained to standards
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Responsibility of PLT Guide

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  • Senior SGT in Rifle PLT
  • Assist PLT SGT w/ admin and logistics
  • Coordinating CASEVAC, EPW
  • Perform all task of a SQD LDR
  • Serve as SQD LDR or PLT SGT
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Responsibility of a Squad Leader

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  • Carries out orders issued by PLT CMDR
  • Tactical employment, fire discipline, fire control, maneuver of his squad.
  • T/O weapon is the M16
  • Discipline, appearance, training, control, conduct, welfare of SQD
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Responsibility of a Fire Team Leader

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  • Carries out the orders of the SQD LDR
  • responsible for the fire discipline and control of his fire team
  • May serve as grenadier, employ grenade
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Responsibility of a Radio Transmitter Operator (RTO)

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  • Establish/Maintain comm between higher, adjacent, and supporting units
  • Proficient on all comm equipment
  • Employed to pass pertinent report
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Responsibility of PLT Corpsman

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-Health, Sanitation, First Aid training, CAS care

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What is the purpose of the offense

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  • Destroy EN forces equipment, resources
  • Disrupt EN actions or preparations
  • Deceive and divert EN
  • Deprive EN of terrain relevant to OBJ
  • Fix EN in place
  • Gain info on the EN
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4 general types of operations (EMAP)

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  • Exploitation
  • Movement to Contact
  • Attack
  • Pursuit
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What is a Exploitation operation

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Offensive operation usually following an attack, is designed to disorganize the enemy in depth

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What is a Pursuit operation

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Offensive operation designed to catch or cut off and destroy the enemy attempting to escape

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What is a Attack Mission

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Defeat, destroy, or neutralize the EN

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How to maximize combat power w/ attack

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  • Bold Maneuver
  • Shock effect in assault
  • Prompt exploitation of success
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8 types of attacks

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  • Hasty
  • Deliberate
  • Spoiling
  • Counterattack
  • Feint
  • Recon in Force
  • Raid
  • Demonstration
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What is a hasty attack

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attack in which preparation time is traded for speed to exploit opportunity

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What is a deliberate attack

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-Preplanned coordinated employment of firepower and maneuver to close with and destroy the EN

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What is a spoiling attack

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-Mounted from defensive position to disrupt an expected enemy attack

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What is a counterattack

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  • Conducted either with a reserve or otherwise uncommitted or lightly engaged forces
  • Conducted after the enemy has begun his attack and a resolute defense or enemy tactical error exposes him to effective counteraction
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What is feint attack

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-supporting effort designed to divert or distract the enemy’s attention away from the main effort, involves physical contact w/ EN

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What is Recon on Force

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Always a deliberate attack by major forces to obtain information and to locate and test enemy reactions, disposition and strength

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What is a raid attack

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Small scale offensive operation, penetrating hostile territory for a specific purpose other than seizing and holding terrain and for which there is always a planned withdrawal

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What is a demonstration

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  • Aims to deceive and confuse the EN
  • Does not make contact with the EN
  • Used during amphibious operations to draw EN forces away from actual landing beaches, or fix them in place
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What is a purpose of the defense

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  • To defeat an EN attack
  • Force EN to reach his culminating point w/o achieving his OBJ
  • Gain and maintain initiative for friendly forces
  • Create opportunities to shift to the offense
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2 general types of defense operations

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Postion and Mobile

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What is a Mobile defense

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  • Defense of an area in which maneuver is used together with fire and terrain to seize the initiative from the EN
  • Orients on the destruction of the attacking force by permitting the enemy to advance into a position that exposes him to counterattack by a mobile reserve
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What is a Position Defense

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  • Focuses on retention of terrain by absorbing EN in interlocking series of positions and destroying him largely by fires
  • Defense in which the bulk of the defending force is disposed in selected tactical positions where the decisive battle is to be fought
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Circumstances favor the conduct of a mobile defense

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  • The frontage exceeds the defender’s capability to establish an effective position defense
  • Time for preparing defensive positions is limited
  • Mission does not require denying the enemy specific terrain

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