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Rifle Platoon in the Offense Flashcards

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What is a Hasty attack

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  • Attack when CMDR decides to trade preparation time for speed to exploit an opportunity
  • When a fleeting opportunity must be rapidly exploited
  • Minimal time for planning and coordination
  • Rely on intuitive analytical decision-making, and orders are usually brief and sometimes even given over the radio.
  • Be simple and flexible
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What is a deliberate attack

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  • pre-planned and coordinated employment of firepower and maneuver to close with and destroy the EN
  • Analytical decision-making for detailed planning to allow unit to close and destroy EN
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What is a frontal attack

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-Rapidly destroy weak EN force, or to fix an enemy in place to support a flanking attack

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What is a flanking attack

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  • Uses fire and maneuver in order to gain a position of advantage against an EN
  • Use w/ support by fire position that diverts attention away from the ME and fires to fix the EN in place, preventing them from reorienting on the ME
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What is Fire and movement

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One buddy suppresses the enemy in order to allow the other buddy to move closer to the enemy

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What is Fire and maneuver

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one unit uses FIRES to fix the enemy, preventing him from moving or reorienting his forces. This allows another unit to MANEUVER to a position of advantage—i.e. the enemy flank

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What is a Leader’s Recon

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Small, leadership-heavy reconnaissance patrol that will operate in close proximity to the EN, must be planned in detail

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Considerations of Leaders’ Recon

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  • Who going
  • SOM, routes, cover, concealment
  • FSP/IA Drills
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What are the Priorities of Recon

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  • Work from the EN back to friendly
  • Confirm location and orientation of EN defense, crew-served weapons, obstacles, and security
  • Identify the EN critical vulnerability
  • Identify an assault position that will best allow the ME to exploit the EN critical vulnerability
  • Identify a support by fire position that will best support the ME.
  • Identify routes and tactical control measures that will best support the scheme of maneuver
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Considerations when choosing a SBF position

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  • Ideally be located on the EN frontage
  • Ideally be located 90 degrees offset from the maneuver element’s direction of assault
  • Should have cover and concealment
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How to occupy by stealth

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  • When the EN does not observe us
  • EN not aware of the support by fire position until they open fire
  • Surprise and protects the SBF element
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How to occupy by force

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  • EN observes the occupation, or currently occupies the planned SBF position
  • Maneuver element or fire support assets would isolate the position IOT allow the support by fire element to seize the position and commence fire on the OBJ
  • Requires better timing because the support by fire position must establish fire superiority on the OBJ immediately upon occupation
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What TCM are there in the offense

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  • Boundary
  • AA
  • Attack Pos
  • Line of Departure (LOD)
  • Checkpoint
  • Phase line
  • Release point
  • Target Reference Point (TRP)
  • Assault Pos
  • OBJ
  • Limit of Advance
  • Linkup Point
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What is a boundary

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A line which delineates surface areas for the purpose of facilitating coordination and deconfliction of operations between adjacent units, formations, or areas

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What is a assembly area

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Area in which a command is assembled preparatory to further action

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What is a Attack Pos

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The last position occupied by the assault echelon before crossing the line of departure

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What is a LOD

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Line designated to coordinate the departure of attack elements

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What is a checkpoint

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Predetermined point on the ground used to control movement and tactical maneuver

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What is a Phase Line

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Line used for control and coordination of military operations, usually a terrain feature extending across the zone of action

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What is a Release Point

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A well-defined point on a route at which the elements composing a column return under the authority of their respective commanders, each one of these elements continuing its movement toward its own appropriate destination

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What is a TRP

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An easily recognizable point on the ground (either natural or man-made) used to initiate, distribute, and control fires

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What is a Assault Pos

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Position between the line of departure and the objective in an attack from which forces assault the objective. Ideally, it is the last covered and concealed position before reaching the objective

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What is a Objective

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The physical object of the action taken (for example, a definite terrain feature, the seizure or holding of which is essential to the commander’s plan, or, the destruction of an enemy force without regard to terrain features)

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What is a Limit of Advance (LOA)

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Easily recognized terrain feature beyond which attacking elements will not advance

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What is a Linkup Point

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Easily identifiable point on the ground where two forces conducting a linkup meet

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What are the 3 categories of Fire Support Plan

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  • Preparatory fires
  • Fires in support of conduct
  • Fires in support of consolidation
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What are the command and signal for SBF

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  • Commence
  • Shift
  • Cease
  • Displace
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What is the signal for commence

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When to begin fire, original, appropriate, redundant

29
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What is the signal for shift

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When maneuver element reaches the OBJ, the SBF element still able to safely suppress deep targets or another part of OBJ

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What is the signal for cease

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When SBF element can no longer support the maneuver element without the risk of fratricide, or when their fires are no longer needed

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What is the signal for displace

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Tells SBF to execute the displacement criteria

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What is the displacement criteria for SBF (MORT)

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  • Method: Unit or Echelon
  • Objective: Where unit is going
  • Route: Direct or covered and conceal
  • Time: Displacement signal
33
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What is the primary cover for movement to the objective

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Terrain

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What 5 types of formations during movement to OBJ

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  • Column
  • Wedge
  • Echelon
  • Vee
  • Line
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What is a Column

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  • Provides the best speed and control, and is ideal when conducting night operations or moving through thick vegetation and canalizing terrain.
  • Provides the best security and deployability to the flanks, but the worst to the front.
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What is a Wedge

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  • Flexible formation that provides good speed and control and good all-around security and deployability.
  • Used when the EN situation is uncertain
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What is a Vee

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  • Slow and difficult to control because there are two lead elements
  • Security is excellent to the front and good to the flanks
  • Used when the enemy is to the front or when crossing a large open area
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What is a Line

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  • Slowest and most difficult to control
  • Excellent security and deployability to the front, but poor to the flank
  • used in the assault, oriented on a known EN
39
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What is primary cover for actions on the OBJ

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Fires

40
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What allow maneuver

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Effective Fires

41
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What considerations of SBF

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Sustained and Rapid

42
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What is the primary focus when transition into consolidation

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  • SAFE
  • ACE report
  • SITREP
43
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What is SAFE

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  • Security
  • Automatic WPNS
  • Field of Fire
  • Entrenchment
44
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What is ACE

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  • Ammo
  • Casualties
  • Equipment

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