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Cadet Requirements - Tactical (For Your Information)

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9 Line MEDEVAC Request

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Line 1. Location of the pick-up site.
Line 2. Radio frequency, call sign, and suffix.
Line 3. Number of patients by precedence:
  • A - Urgent
  • B - Urgent Surgical
  • C - Priority
  • D - Routine
  • E - Convenience
Line 4. Special equipment required:
  • A - None
  • B - Hoist
  • C - Extraction equipment
  • D - Ventilator
Line 5. Number of patients:
  • A - Litter
  • B - Ambulatory
Line 6. Security at pick-up site:
  • N - No enemy troops in area
  • P - Possible enemy troops in area (approach with caution)
  • E - Enemy troops in area (approach with caution)
  • X - Enemy troops in area (armed escort required)
  • * In peacetime - number and types of wounds, injuries, and illnesses
Line 7. Method of marking pick-up site:
  • A - Panels
  • B - Pyrotechnic signal
  • C - Smoke signal
  • D - None
  • E - Other
Line 8. Patient nationality and status:
  • A - US Military
  • B - US Civilian
  • C - Non-US Military
  • D - Non-US Civilian
  • E - EPW
Line 9. NBC Contamination:
  • N - Nuclear
  • B - Biological
  • C - Chemical
  • * In peacetime - terrain description of pick-up site


Call For Fire

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  1. First transmission: Observer identification and warning order.
    Example: H24 THIS IS N59, ADJUST FIRE, OVER

  2. Second transmission: Target location.
    Example: GRID CF123456, OVER

  3. Third transmission: Target description, method of engagement method of fire and control.
    Example: TANK IN OPEN, ICM IN EFFECT, OVER


Terrain Analysis (OACOK)

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  • Obstacles
  • Avenues of Approach
  • Cover and Concealment
  • Observation and Fields of Fire
  • Key Terrain


METT-TC

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  • Mission
  • Enemy
  • Troops
  • Terrain
  • Time Available
  • Civilian Considerations


Decision Making Process

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  • Identify the Problem
  • Gather the Information
  • Develop a Course of action
  • Analyze and Compare Course of Action
  • Make Decisions - Select course of Action
  • Make a Plan
  • Implement the Plan


Eight Tasks for Health, Welfare, and Maintenance

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  • Clean Assigned Weapons. Don't Clean all Crew Served Weapons at the Same Time
  • Clean and Wash Yourself
  • Shave
  • Recamouflage
  • Pack and Recamouflage Equipment
  • Team Leaders Need to Inspect and Correct Deficiencies
  • Eat
  • Return Within the Proper


Priority of Work in the Defense

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  • Establish Local Security
  • Position MGs and Dragons by Platoon Leader, Men by Squad Leader, and Assign Sectors of Fire
  • Clear Fields of Fire and Prepare Range Cards
  • Prepare Fighting Positions
  • Lay Communications Wire
  • Emplace Obstacles and Mines
  • Improve Primary Position and Prepare Overhead Cover
  • Prepare Supplementary Positions
  • Stockpile Ammunition, Food and Water


Tactical Leaders Model (Defense)

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  • Prepare for Combat
  • Move to the Defense
  • Locate the Enemy
  • React to Enemy Contact
  • Fix the Enemy
  • Fight the Defense
  • Consolidate and Reorganize


Squad Combat Drill (Offensive)

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  • Prepare for Combat Operations (TLP)
  • React to Enemy contact
  • Locate the Enemy
  • Gain Fire Superiority
  • Flank Attack
  • Consolidate and Reorganize


Estimate of the Situation

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  • Detailed Mission Analysis
  • The Situation and Courses of Action - War-game
  • Analyze coursed of Action
  • Decision


Five Points of Safety

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  • Nothing we do in peacetime warrants unnecessary risks (in terms of lives and equipment)
  • Commanders are Safety Officers
  • Teach Soldiers a "Sixth Sense" of Safety
  • Fix Accountability for Accidents
  • Safety Officials "must be"