Rifle Squad Tactics Flashcards
What are the 4 types of offensive operations?
Mvmt to contact
Attack
Exploitation
Pursuit
“offensive operation that seeks to gain or regain contact and develop the situation in relation to an enemy whose general location is known, but exact location is unknown”
Mvmt to contact
Offensive operation characterized by coordinated mvmt, spt by fire, conducted to defeat , destroy, neutralize or capture the enemy
Attack
Off operation that follows a successful attack and is designed to disorganize the EN in depth
Exploitation
Off operation designed to catch or cut off a hostile force attempting to escape with the aim of destroying it
Pursuit
What are the 2 types of attack?
And the differences?
Hasty - prep time is traded for speed to exploit opportunity
Deliberate - off action characterized by pre planned coordinated employment of firepower and maneuver to close with and destroy the enemy
What are the 3 phases of the attack?
Prep
Conduct
Consolidation/Exploitation
What are the 6 forms of maneuver?
Frontal Flanking Envelopment Turning mvmt Infiltration Penetration
What is the squad leader responsible for?
Carries out the orders issued to him by the plt co
Responsible for the tactical employment, fire discipline, fire control, and maneuver of the squad.
What are the supplementary weapons to a squad?
Demo, claymores, hand grenades, ground signals and flares, assault wpns (at4, law, smaw)
What is the smallest maneuver unit in the Corps?
Buddy pair
What is the cycle of the infantryman?
Suppress
Assess
Move
What is the report given upon contact?
ADDRAC Alert Direction Description Range Assignment Control
What is used to transition from the offense to defense?
SAFE Security Auto weapons Fields of fire Entrenchment
Who gets assigned a “sector of fire”?
Fire team
