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SELECTED COMBAT TASKS
Every soldier, regardless of rank, branch or MOS must be proficient in certain individual combat tasks. This appendix provides 11 of these tasks. These tasks are vitally important for every soldier on the battlefield to know. You can find these and other individual tasks in The Soldier's Manual of Common Tasks or your MOS-specific soldier's manual.
Section I- Shoot, Move, and Communicate
Engage Targets with an M16A1 or M16A2 Rifle
Move Over, Through, or Around Obstacles (Except Minefields)
Navigate from One Point on the Ground to Another Point while Dismounted
Perform Voice Communications
Section II - Survive
Evaluate a Casualty
Perform First Aid for Nerve Agent Injury
React to Chemical or Biological Hazard/Attack
Decontaminate Yourself and Individual Equipment Using Chemical Decontaminating Kits
React to Indirect Fire While Dismounted
React to Direct Fire While Mounted
Select Temporary Fighting Positions
SECTION I- SHOOT, MOVE, AND COMMUNICATE
For more information on common tasks, see STP 21-1-SMCT, The Soldier's Manual of Common Tasks.
A-1. Every soldier, regardless of rank, position, and MOS must be able to shoot, move, communicate, and survive in order to contribute to the team and survive in combat. This appendix includes selected combat tasks that support these basic soldier skills. Common tasks can, of course, also be found in the Soldiers Manual of Common Tasks. You should master these basic selected combat tasks as well as other task that your unit may deem necessary.
A-2. SHOOT. Shoot means more than simply squeezing off rounds. It means being able to place effective fire on the enemy with your individual weapon. It is going out in combat and doing what is required of you and with consistency.
A-3. MOVE. When in combat, you can expect to encounter times that you might have to maneuver in or outside the perimeter, in cover of darkness, and over, through and around obstacles. This also can include reacting to indirect fire or direct fire when mounted. Your unit's ability to move depends on your movement skills and those of your fellow soldiers. These actions require certain skills to ensure your safety and the safety of comrades (high crawl, low crawl and rush). Fire and move techniques. Moving with maneuver units.
A-4. COMMUNICATE. Provide information to those who need it. There are several means of communications; digital, radio, visual, wire, sound, and messenger. The information must be transmitted and received and understood. You must know how to communicate with your leaders and fellow soldiers. You must be able to tell:
* What you see.
* What you are doing.
* What you have done.
* What you are going to do.
* What you need.
A-5. SURVIVE. Action taken to stay alive in the field with limited resources. Survival requires knowledge of how to take care of yourself. While thinking of survival you can not rule out security. You must do everything possible for the security and protection of yourself and your unit. Here is a list of some basic things:
* Be awake and alert.
* Keep your weapon and equipment in good operating condition.
* Move around only when necessary.
* Use lights only when necessary.
* Look and listen for enemy activity in your sector.
* Use challenge and a password.
* Use obstacle to prevent direct access in and out of perimeter.
* Employ intrusion devices on the edge of perimeter and mark them.
* Ensure that fighting position provide cover and concealment while allowing maximum fields of fire. Improve position as time permits.
A-6. Listed on the following pages are selected combat tasks or actions that are necessary and applicable for all soldiers in order to survive in battlefield conditions. You can find the tasks, conditions, standards, performance steps and measures here and in STP 21-1-SMCT, Soldier's Manual of Common Tasks.
ENGAGE TARGETS WITH AN M16A1 OR M16A2 RIFLE
For more information see FM 3-22.9 , M16A1 and M16A2 Rifle Marksmanship.
Conditions: Given an M16A1 or M16A2 rifle, magazines, ammunition, individual combat equipment, and stationary or moving targets (personnel or equipment) at engageable ranges.
Standards: Detected and determined range to targets. Fired the M16A1 or M16A2 rifle, engaged targets in assigned sector of fire. Applied correct marksmanship fundamentals and target engagement techniques so that each target was hit or suppressed. Hit 60 percent or more of the targets in assigned sector of fire.
Performance Steps
1. Assume an appropriate firing position based on the situation. The firing position should protect you from enemy fire and observation, yet allow you to place effective fire on targets in your sector of fire.
a. Foxhole. Advantages: best when available. Disadvantages: no overhead cover.
b. Prone. Advantages: steady, easy to assume, low silhouette, and easily adapted to use of cover and support. Disadvantages: effectiveness can be limited by terrain and vegetation irregularities.
c. Prone supported. Advantages: steadier than prone, other advantages the same as prone. Disadvantages: same as prone.
d. Kneeling. Advantages: used when firing from behind something; used on ground that is level or gently sloping upward. Disadvantage: exposed to small-arms fire.
e. Kneeling supported. Advantages: steadier than kneeling; other advantages the same as kneeling. Disadvantages: exposed to small- arms fire.
f. Standing. Advantages: used in assault to surprise targets or when other positions are not appropriate. Disadvantages: exposed to small-arms fire.
2. Identify targets in your designated sector of fire.
3. Determine range to a target.
a. You can use your M16A1 or M16A2 rifle sights to estimate range to targets(s). Viewed through the front sight, a man-sized target appears:
(1) Twice the width as the front sight post at about 90 meters.
(2) The same width as the front sight post at about 175 meters.
(3) Half the width of the front sight post at about 350 meters.
4. Load and fire on targets using appropriate engagement techniques.
a. Load the weapon.
b. Use the appropriate aiming technique.
(1) Engage a stationary target using reference points or sighting points.
(2) Engage a target moving towards you as you would a stationary target.
(3) Engage a target moving laterally, using the single lead technique, by placing the trailing edge of the front sight post at the center of the target. This method causes the lead to increase automatically as the range increases.
(4) Engage multiple targets by first firing at the one presenting the greatest danger (usually the closest) and then rapidly proceeding to next target.
c. Use the quick-fire technique when there is no time to properly aim. Use this technique on targets within 30 meters of your location. (This technique is most effective in urban terrain or heavy bush.)
(1) Use the standing position.
(2) Use the raised stockwell. Looking two or three inches above the sights, on a plane that is level with the barrel.
(3) Look at the target, NOT at the sights.
d. Fire on the targets until they are destroyed or until you receive an order to cease fire.
Every soldier, regardless of rank, branch or MOS must be proficient in certain individual combat tasks. This appendix provides 11 of these tasks. These tasks are vitally important for every soldier on the battlefield to know. You can find these and other individual tasks in The Soldier's Manual of Common Tasks or your MOS-specific soldier's manual.
Section I- Shoot, Move, and Communicate
Engage Targets with an M16A1 or M16A2 Rifle
Move Over, Through, or Around Obstacles (Except Minefields)
Navigate from One Point on the Ground to Another Point while Dismounted
Perform Voice Communications
Section II - Survive
Evaluate a Casualty
Perform First Aid for Nerve Agent Injury
React to Chemical or Biological Hazard/Attack
Decontaminate Yourself and Individual Equipment Using Chemical Decontaminating Kits
React to Indirect Fire While Dismounted
React to Direct Fire While Mounted
Select Temporary Fighting Positions
SECTION I- SHOOT, MOVE, AND COMMUNICATE
For more information on common tasks, see STP 21-1-SMCT, The Soldier's Manual of Common Tasks.
A-1. Every soldier, regardless of rank, position, and MOS must be able to shoot, move, communicate, and survive in order to contribute to the team and survive in combat. This appendix includes selected combat tasks that support these basic soldier skills. Common tasks can, of course, also be found in the Soldiers Manual of Common Tasks. You should master these basic selected combat tasks as well as other task that your unit may deem necessary.
A-2. SHOOT. Shoot means more than simply squeezing off rounds. It means being able to place effective fire on the enemy with your individual weapon. It is going out in combat and doing what is required of you and with consistency.
A-3. MOVE. When in combat, you can expect to encounter times that you might have to maneuver in or outside the perimeter, in cover of darkness, and over, through and around obstacles. This also can include reacting to indirect fire or direct fire when mounted. Your unit's ability to move depends on your movement skills and those of your fellow soldiers. These actions require certain skills to ensure your safety and the safety of comrades (high crawl, low crawl and rush). Fire and move techniques. Moving with maneuver units.
A-4. COMMUNICATE. Provide information to those who need it. There are several means of communications; digital, radio, visual, wire, sound, and messenger. The information must be transmitted and received and understood. You must know how to communicate with your leaders and fellow soldiers. You must be able to tell:
* What you see.
* What you are doing.
* What you have done.
* What you are going to do.
* What you need.
A-5. SURVIVE. Action taken to stay alive in the field with limited resources. Survival requires knowledge of how to take care of yourself. While thinking of survival you can not rule out security. You must do everything possible for the security and protection of yourself and your unit. Here is a list of some basic things:
* Be awake and alert.
* Keep your weapon and equipment in good operating condition.
* Move around only when necessary.
* Use lights only when necessary.
* Look and listen for enemy activity in your sector.
* Use challenge and a password.
* Use obstacle to prevent direct access in and out of perimeter.
* Employ intrusion devices on the edge of perimeter and mark them.
* Ensure that fighting position provide cover and concealment while allowing maximum fields of fire. Improve position as time permits.
A-6. Listed on the following pages are selected combat tasks or actions that are necessary and applicable for all soldiers in order to survive in battlefield conditions. You can find the tasks, conditions, standards, performance steps and measures here and in STP 21-1-SMCT, Soldier's Manual of Common Tasks.
ENGAGE TARGETS WITH AN M16A1 OR M16A2 RIFLE
For more information see FM 3-22.9 , M16A1 and M16A2 Rifle Marksmanship.
Conditions: Given an M16A1 or M16A2 rifle, magazines, ammunition, individual combat equipment, and stationary or moving targets (personnel or equipment) at engageable ranges.
Standards: Detected and determined range to targets. Fired the M16A1 or M16A2 rifle, engaged targets in assigned sector of fire. Applied correct marksmanship fundamentals and target engagement techniques so that each target was hit or suppressed. Hit 60 percent or more of the targets in assigned sector of fire.
Performance Steps
1. Assume an appropriate firing position based on the situation. The firing position should protect you from enemy fire and observation, yet allow you to place effective fire on targets in your sector of fire.
a. Foxhole. Advantages: best when available. Disadvantages: no overhead cover.
b. Prone. Advantages: steady, easy to assume, low silhouette, and easily adapted to use of cover and support. Disadvantages: effectiveness can be limited by terrain and vegetation irregularities.
c. Prone supported. Advantages: steadier than prone, other advantages the same as prone. Disadvantages: same as prone.
d. Kneeling. Advantages: used when firing from behind something; used on ground that is level or gently sloping upward. Disadvantage: exposed to small-arms fire.
e. Kneeling supported. Advantages: steadier than kneeling; other advantages the same as kneeling. Disadvantages: exposed to small- arms fire.
f. Standing. Advantages: used in assault to surprise targets or when other positions are not appropriate. Disadvantages: exposed to small-arms fire.
2. Identify targets in your designated sector of fire.
3. Determine range to a target.
a. You can use your M16A1 or M16A2 rifle sights to estimate range to targets(s). Viewed through the front sight, a man-sized target appears:
(1) Twice the width as the front sight post at about 90 meters.
(2) The same width as the front sight post at about 175 meters.
(3) Half the width of the front sight post at about 350 meters.
4. Load and fire on targets using appropriate engagement techniques.
a. Load the weapon.
b. Use the appropriate aiming technique.
(1) Engage a stationary target using reference points or sighting points.
(2) Engage a target moving towards you as you would a stationary target.
(3) Engage a target moving laterally, using the single lead technique, by placing the trailing edge of the front sight post at the center of the target. This method causes the lead to increase automatically as the range increases.
(4) Engage multiple targets by first firing at the one presenting the greatest danger (usually the closest) and then rapidly proceeding to next target.
c. Use the quick-fire technique when there is no time to properly aim. Use this technique on targets within 30 meters of your location. (This technique is most effective in urban terrain or heavy bush.)
(1) Use the standing position.
(2) Use the raised stockwell. Looking two or three inches above the sights, on a plane that is level with the barrel.
(3) Look at the target, NOT at the sights.
d. Fire on the targets until they are destroyed or until you receive an order to cease fire.