Mission Op/Tac Ops (ACAT 2-2/2-3) Flashcards
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Movement to Contact
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-Gains initial or lost contact with the enemy
-enables the situation to developed before committing additional combat power or maneuvering the friendly force
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Screen Security
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- Primarily provides early warning to the protected force
- Aviation security element destroys, defeats, or disrupts all enemy recon elements within its capabilities. Does not become decisively engaged (Company Sized)
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Zone Reconnaissance
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- To obtain detailed information on all routes, obstacles, terrain, and enemy forces within the zone.
- Restrictive boundaries
- Most time consuming of all recon missions
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Area Reconnaissance
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- To obtain detailed information about the terrain or enemy activity within a prescribed area.
- Permissive and allow aerial team greater freedom in selecting ingress/egress routes
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Route Reconnaissance
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- To obtain detailed information of specific routes and terrain
- Provides NEW or UPDATED information on route conditions such as obstacles or bridges
- Mat be a part of an area or zone recon
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Recon in Force
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- a deliberate combat operation designed to discover or test the enemy’s strength, disposition, and or reactions to obtain information
- RIF is an aggressive recon similar to a movement to contact but with a clearly stated recon objective
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Deliberate Attack
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- Planned and carefully coordinated with all involved elements to provide a synchronization of combat power at the decisive point
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Hasty Attack
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- Overwhelm the enemy and seize the initiative
- Depends on timely and accurate info with speed to react
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Attack by Fire
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- Designated the general position from which a unit conducts the tactical task of attack by fire
Purpose: to mass effects of the direct fire systems for one or multiple locations towards the enemy
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Support by Fire
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- Designates the general position from which the unit conducts the tactical mission task of support by fire
Purpose: to increase the supported forces freedom of maneuver by placing direct fires on an objective that is going to be assaulted by a friendly force
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Battle Position
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- Designated for attack helicopters in which they can maneuver fire into a designated EA
Purpose: a restrictive control measure that depicts the location and general orientation of the attack unit
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Guard Security
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- Protects the main body by fighting to gain time while observing and reporting information.
- Protects the main body from observation, direct fire, and Suprise attacks
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Cover Security
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- A cover force is tactically self-contained and capable of operating independently of the main body
- A cover contains greater combat power and is responsible for a large area.
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Area Security
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- Protects friendly forces installations, routes, and actions within a specific area
- Occurs in stability operations and non-contiguous areas of operation
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Fire Control
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- Company commander/AMC is in control of fires
- They use two processes to control fires: triggers or fire commands
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Triggers
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- An event that would signal an initiation of fires.
Objective: To anticipate events and coordinate fires before the event starts
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Fire Commands
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- Use a standard format for a fire command to ensure all information are given quickly and accurately.
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Frontal Pattern
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- Used when all engaging helicopters have unobstructed fields of fire. Flank helicopters engage targets to the front then shift fires towards center. Frontal then engage front to rear.
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Depth fire Pattern
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- Used when targets are exposed in depth.
- An entire company may be required to fire on a column in depth or individual aircraft.
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Fratricide Prevention
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- Situational awareness
- Nav, Reporting, identification, weapons errors
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Effects of Fratricide
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- Hesitation
- loss of confidence in leadership
- Increase of leader self-doubt
- Hesitation to use combat systems
- Loss of initiative
- Loss of aggression
- Disrupted operations
- Degradation of cohesion/morale
