Tank Platoon Chapter 3 Flashcards
What are the four types of offensive tasks
Movement to contact, attack, exploitation, and pursuit
What are the Forms of Maneuver
Envelopment, turning movement, frontal attack, penetration, and infiltration
Sequence of the Offense
Gain and maintain enemy contact, disrupt the enemy, fix the enemy, maneuver, follow through
Forms of Contact
Direct, indirect, non-hostile, obstacle, CBRN, Aerial, Visual, EW
Five Steps of Actions on Contact
Deploy and report, evaluate and develop the situation, choose a COA, execute the selected COA, recommend a coa to the higher commander
Platoon Tactical Tasks
Attack by fire, breach, bypass, clear, control, count-recon, disengage, exfiltrate, follow and assume, follow and support, occupy, reduce, retain, secure, seize, support by fire
Attack by fire
Direct fire without closing with the enemy
reach
Breach
all available means to break through a defense or obstacle
Bypass
Unit maneuvers around an obstacle, position or enemy force while avoiding combat
Clear
Remove all enemy forces and resistance from an area
control
Maintain physical influence over a specified area
Counter-recon
Counter enemy recon and surveillance efforts
Disengage
PL has the unit break contact with the enemy
Exfiltrate
Remove units from areas under enemy control via stealth
Follow and assume
Second force follows initial ready to take over the mission
Follow and support
Force follows initial ready to support a lead force
Occupy
Moving a friendly face into an area
Reduce
Involved the destruction of an encircled or bypassed enemy force
Retain
Terrain feature controlled remains free of enemy occupation or use
Secure
Prevent a unit, facility, or location from being damaged or destroyed
Seize
Take possession of a designated area by overwhelming force
Support by fire
Platoon engages enemy force to support another maneuvering force
Battle Drills
Change formation, contact, action, r each to indirect fire, react to air attack, react to a CBRN attack
Combat Formation
Column, staggered column, wedge, echelon, VEE, Line, Coil, Herringbone
Movement Techniques
Traveling, traveling overwatch, bounding overwatch
